The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Zend Technologies Ltd.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank - 46 47
Contract jobs citing Zend 0 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - 1.597% 0.387%
As % of the Vendors category - 3.333% 0.813%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 2
Average daily rate - £225 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £289 £228
% change year-on-year
+1.73% +26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £111.25 -
% change year-on-year
-74.38% -
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
214 300 246
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 48.97% 47.92% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 137 119
Average daily rate £340 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £163 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £457 £478 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 22
Average hourly rate £20.98 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.68% -3.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.76 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £106.00 £33.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Zend
West Midlands

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Zend across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Birmingham Zend Jobs Demand Trend

Zend
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Zend across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Zend also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Zend.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Magento

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Zend also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Zend. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP