The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 37 46 35
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -11
Contract jobs citing Zend 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.610% 0.711% 0.766%
As % of the Vendors category 1.316% 1.705% 2.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £280 - -
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
152 176 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 46.34% 41.71% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 85 39
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £418 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 14
Average hourly rate £22.50 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.75% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.83 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.35 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Zend
Cambridgeshire

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 8 (100.00%) PHP
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
2 7 (87.50%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) HTML
3 6 (75.00%) OO
3 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (50.00%) Symfony
4 4 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (50.00%) MVC
4 4 (50.00%) XML
5 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 3 (37.50%) OOP
5 3 (37.50%) SOAP
5 3 (37.50%) Java
5 3 (37.50%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) SEO
5 3 (37.50%) CMS
5 3 (37.50%) Subversion
5 3 (37.50%) Apache
5 3 (37.50%) Drupal
5 3 (37.50%) PHP5
5 3 (37.50%) Ajax
5 3 (37.50%) Web Development
5 3 (37.50%) Java EE
5 3 (37.50%) JSON
5 3 (37.50%) WordPress
5 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
5 3 (37.50%) RESTful
5 3 (37.50%) Memcached

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (87.50%) CSS
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
2 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 4 (50.00%) Symfony
3 4 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (50.00%) XML
4 3 (37.50%) SOAP
4 3 (37.50%) Ajax
4 3 (37.50%) Java EE
4 3 (37.50%) JSON
4 3 (37.50%) RESTful
4 3 (37.50%) Memcached
4 3 (37.50%) Node.js
5 2 (25.00%) Zend Framework
6 1 (12.50%) CSS3
6 1 (12.50%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) CMS
1 3 (37.50%) Apache
1 3 (37.50%) Drupal
1 3 (37.50%) WordPress
1 3 (37.50%) concrete5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
1 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (25.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) MVC
3 3 (37.50%) OOP
3 3 (37.50%) SEO
3 3 (37.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) PHP5