Photoshop Contract Job Trends

Adobe Photoshop
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Photoshop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 572 490 477
Rank change year-on-year -82 -13 +113
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 48 39 117
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.13% 0.27%
As % of the Applications category 1.66% 1.61% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 58
10th Percentile £301 £157 £188
25th Percentile £305 £200 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £314 £304 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -13.14% -7.28%
75th Percentile £359 £380 £446
90th Percentile £398 £453 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £325 £355
% change year-on-year -4.47% -8.59% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 12
10th Percentile £13.70 £48.24 £14.06
25th Percentile £14.00 £48.87 £14.86
Median hourly rate £28.09 £50.75 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.65% +76.53% -25.81%
75th Percentile £32.00 £51.80 £43.19
90th Percentile £35.07 £51.92 £62.68
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.09 - £39.92

All Software Application Skills
UK

Photoshop falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,891 2,427 3,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 8.32% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 1,452 1,732
10th Percentile £238 £188 £161
25th Percentile £343 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £559 £541 £538
90th Percentile £651 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -10.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 253 634
10th Percentile £13.26 £14.20 £11.55
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £23.59 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +32.83% -52.32%
75th Percentile £32.84 £43.75 £39.92
90th Percentile £68.53 £70.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.91 £22.75 £16.06
% change year-on-year -12.48% +41.66% -50.43%

Photoshop
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Photoshop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Photoshop job vacancy trend in the UK

Photoshop
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Photoshop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Photoshop

Photoshop
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Photoshop over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Photoshop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Photoshop

Photoshop
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Photoshop over the 6 months to 29 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Photoshop within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -78 46 £314 +6.54% 25
UK excluding London -68 28 £310 -4.47% 28
London -85 20 £325 +14.04% 4
South West -19 14 £310 -46.09% 3
South East -53 6 £425 - 6
West Midlands - 5 £550 - 7
Midlands - 5 £550 - 8
Work from Home -45 4 £430 +115.00% 10
Scotland +2 2 - -
East of England -36 1 - - 2

Photoshop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (14.58%) CMS
2 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
4 1 (2.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.08%) Drupal
4 1 (2.08%) nginx
4 1 (2.08%) Umbraco
Applications
1 29 (60.42%) Adobe Illustrator
2 13 (27.08%) Adobe After Effects
3 11 (22.92%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 11 (22.92%) InDesign
4 7 (14.58%) Maya
5 6 (12.50%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (10.42%) CINEMA 4D
6 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
8 2 (4.17%) Siemens NX
9 1 (2.08%) 3ds Max
9 1 (2.08%) Acrobat
9 1 (2.08%) Adobe XD
9 1 (2.08%) Chatbot
9 1 (2.08%) InVision
9 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
9 1 (2.08%) Sketch
9 1 (2.08%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Shopify
1 2 (4.17%) Workfront
2 1 (2.08%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Figma
2 6 (12.50%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.08%) AWS
4 1 (2.08%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.08%) GitHub
4 1 (2.08%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.08%) Google Docs
4 1 (2.08%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.08%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (2.08%) Miro
4 1 (2.08%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.08%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) Axure RP
3 1 (2.08%) Subversion
3 1 (2.08%) Vite
General
1 28 (58.33%) Marketing
2 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.67%) Retail
4 6 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Wearables
6 3 (6.25%) Automotive
6 3 (6.25%) Publishing
7 2 (4.17%) Finance
7 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Legal
7 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Advertising
8 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Multimedia
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (50.00%) Designer
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Graphic Designer
3 5 (10.42%) Motion Designer
4 4 (8.33%) 3D Artist
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Designer
4 4 (8.33%) UI Designer
5 3 (6.25%) Artworker
5 3 (6.25%) Senior UI Designer
6 2 (4.17%) Creative Artworker
6 2 (4.17%) Digital Designer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Artworker
6 2 (4.17%) UX Designer
7 1 (2.08%) E-Commerce Executive
7 1 (2.08%) Junior Designer
7 1 (2.08%) Junior Graphic Designer
7 1 (2.08%) Marketing Executive
7 1 (2.08%) Product Designer
7 1 (2.08%) Service Designer
7 1 (2.08%) Web Content Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) HTML
2 5 (10.42%) CSS
2 5 (10.42%) V-Ray
3 1 (2.08%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (2.08%) CSS3
3 1 (2.08%) HTML5
3 1 (2.08%) jQuery
3 1 (2.08%) Laravel
3 1 (2.08%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (2.08%) Microformats
3 1 (2.08%) OOCSS
3 1 (2.08%) Sass
3 1 (2.08%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (2.08%) Vue
3 1 (2.08%) XHTML
3 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Animation
2 6 (12.50%) Graphic Design
3 5 (10.42%) Motion Graphics
4 4 (8.33%) IoT
5 2 (4.17%) e-Learning
5 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.17%) Vector Graphics
6 1 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.08%) FMCG
6 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.08%) NHS
6 1 (2.08%) Social Media
6 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.08%) Storytelling
2 12 (25.00%) User Experience
3 11 (22.92%) Global Marketing
4 8 (16.67%) Agile
4 8 (16.67%) Visual Effects
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.58%) Prototyping
5 7 (14.58%) UX Design
6 6 (12.50%) Typography
7 5 (10.42%) Asset Management
7 5 (10.42%) Design Thinking
7 5 (10.42%) Interaction Design
7 5 (10.42%) Project Management
7 5 (10.42%) Visualisation
8 4 (8.33%) AI
9 3 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (6.25%) Creative Thinking
9 3 (6.25%) Iconography
9 3 (6.25%) Time Management
10 2 (4.17%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.08%) Bash
2 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) WAI
2 1 (2.08%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
Vendors
1 31 (64.58%) Adobe
2 5 (10.42%) Google
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.17%) Optimizely
4 2 (4.17%) Siemens
4 2 (4.17%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.08%) Alias
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) CODA
5 1 (2.08%) Facebook
5 1 (2.08%) Pardot
5 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow