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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 484 451
Rank change year-on-year -85 -33 +125
Contract jobs citing Photoshop 58 38 118
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Applications category 2.10% 1.56% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 56
10th Percentile - £153 £190
25th Percentile £305 £159 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £318 £304 £325
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -6.46% -16.13%
75th Percentile £350 £380 £403
90th Percentile £400 £520 £544
UK excluding London median daily rate £310 £424 £350
% change year-on-year -26.84% +21.07% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 13
10th Percentile £21.85 - £14.06
25th Percentile - £13.25 £15.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £31.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -15.99% -3.23%
75th Percentile - £51.39 £53.00
90th Percentile £43.32 £51.75 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £13.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year +151.78% -66.18% -

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 2,762 2,431 3,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.70% 8.44% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,592 1,414 1,657
10th Percentile £248 £188 £165
25th Percentile £335 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £562 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 260 632
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.20 £11.52
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +35.05% -47.81%
75th Percentile £34.48 £43.81 £38.43
90th Percentile £72.05 £67.50 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.35 £21.39 £16.06
% change year-on-year -4.86% +33.19% -39.40%

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 25 May 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 25 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Photoshop in the UK

Photoshop
Top 12 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 25 May 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 -101 57 £318 +0.95% 34
UK excluding London -82 36 £310 -26.84% 26
London -86 19 £325 +6.91% 12
Midlands -48 15 £550 - 5
West Midlands -49 15 £550 - 5
South West -17 14 £310 -46.09% 2
Work from Home -39 5 £430 +157.49% 11
South East -58 4 £425 - 10
East of England -32 1 - - 3
Yorkshire -61 1 - - 1
North of England -80 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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 (12.07%) CMS
2 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) Drupal
3 1 (1.72%) nginx
3 1 (1.72%) Umbraco
Applications
1 42 (72.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 23 (39.66%) Adobe After Effects
3 12 (20.69%) InDesign
4 9 (15.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (12.07%) Maya
6 5 (8.62%) Adobe Premiere
6 5 (8.62%) CINEMA 4D
7 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 2 (3.45%) Siemens NX
10 1 (1.72%) Acrobat
10 1 (1.72%) Adobe XD
10 1 (1.72%) Blender
10 1 (1.72%) Chatbot
10 1 (1.72%) InVision
10 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
10 1 (1.72%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (1.72%) Sketch
10 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Workfront
2 1 (1.72%) Eloqua
2 1 (1.72%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 24 (41.38%) Figma
2 5 (8.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) Canva
4 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.72%) AWS
5 1 (1.72%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.72%) Google Docs
5 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.72%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.72%) Miro
5 1 (1.72%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.72%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) MySQL
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Git
1 2 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) Axure RP
2 1 (1.72%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (1.72%) Subversion
2 1 (1.72%) Vite
General
1 26 (44.83%) Marketing
2 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Automotive
4 10 (17.24%) Retail
5 9 (15.52%) Manufacturing
6 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.62%) Publishing
7 4 (6.90%) Games
7 4 (6.90%) Wearables
8 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.45%) Agriculture
8 2 (3.45%) Finance
8 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Legal
9 1 (1.72%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (62.07%) Designer
2 16 (27.59%) Senior
3 15 (25.86%) UI Designer
4 13 (22.41%) Senior Designer
5 12 (20.69%) Senior UI Designer
6 11 (18.97%) Graphic Designer
7 5 (8.62%) Motion Designer
8 4 (6.90%) 3D Artist
8 4 (6.90%) Artworker
9 3 (5.17%) Creative Artworker
9 3 (5.17%) Junior
9 3 (5.17%) Junior Designer
9 3 (5.17%) Junior Graphic Designer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Artworker
9 3 (5.17%) UX Designer
10 2 (3.45%) Senior Graphic Designer
10 2 (3.45%) UI/UX Designer
11 1 (1.72%) Creative Designer
11 1 (1.72%) Senior Technical Writer
11 1 (1.72%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) HTML
2 5 (8.62%) CSS
2 5 (8.62%) V-Ray
3 1 (1.72%) Compass CSS Framework
3 1 (1.72%) CSS3
3 1 (1.72%) HTML5
3 1 (1.72%) jQuery
3 1 (1.72%) Laravel
3 1 (1.72%) LEMP Stack
3 1 (1.72%) Microformats
3 1 (1.72%) OOCSS
3 1 (1.72%) Sass
3 1 (1.72%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (1.72%) Vue
3 1 (1.72%) XHTML
3 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (39.66%) Animation
2 9 (15.52%) Graphic Design
3 5 (8.62%) Motion Graphics
4 4 (6.90%) IoT
5 2 (3.45%) e-Learning
5 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) Vector Graphics
6 1 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) FMCG
6 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Social Media
6 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.93%) User Experience
2 13 (22.41%) Storytelling
3 11 (18.97%) Global Marketing
4 10 (17.24%) UX Design
5 9 (15.52%) Typography
6 8 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
6 8 (13.79%) Visual Effects
7 7 (12.07%) Agile
7 7 (12.07%) Prototyping
8 6 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.62%) Asset Management
9 5 (8.62%) Interaction Design
9 5 (8.62%) Project Management
9 5 (8.62%) Visualisation
10 4 (6.90%) AI
10 4 (6.90%) Design Thinking
10 4 (6.90%) Iconography
10 4 (6.90%) Time Management
11 3 (5.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.72%) Bash
2 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) WAI
3 1 (1.72%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
Vendors
1 40 (68.97%) Adobe
2 7 (12.07%) Google
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.45%) Optimizely
4 2 (3.45%) Siemens
4 2 (3.45%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.72%) Alias
5 1 (1.72%) CODA
5 1 (1.72%) Pardot
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow