The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Cambridgeshire 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 46 58 56
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -2
Contract jobs citing Zend 5 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.867% 0.573% 0.329%
As % of the Vendors category 1.736% 1.220% 0.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £303 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £275 £225
% change year-on-year
+4.54% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year
-12.30% -
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
288 328 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 49.91% 46.99% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 167 100
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £205 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 36 54
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.79% +11.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.15 £9.85 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Zend
East of England

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zend within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +10 2 £280 - 1
Zend
East of England

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 12 (100.00%) PHP
1 12 (100.00%) MySQL
2 11 (91.67%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) HTML
3 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (83.33%) OO
3 10 (83.33%) jQuery
4 7 (58.33%) Apache
4 7 (58.33%) Linux
5 6 (50.00%) Drupal
5 6 (50.00%) Web Development
6 5 (41.67%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (33.33%) PHP5
7 4 (33.33%) Symfony
7 4 (33.33%) LAMP
7 4 (33.33%) MVC
7 4 (33.33%) XML
8 3 (25.00%) SOAP
8 3 (25.00%) Java
8 3 (25.00%) SQL
8 3 (25.00%) SEO
8 3 (25.00%) CMS
8 3 (25.00%) OOP
8 3 (25.00%) Ajax
8 3 (25.00%) Subversion
8 3 (25.00%) Java EE
8 3 (25.00%) JSON
8 3 (25.00%) WordPress
8 3 (25.00%) Git (software)
8 3 (25.00%) RESTful

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 11 (91.67%) HTML
1 11 (91.67%) CSS
2 10 (83.33%) jQuery
3 5 (41.67%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (33.33%) Symfony
4 4 (33.33%) XML
4 4 (33.33%) LAMP
5 3 (25.00%) Ajax
5 3 (25.00%) Java EE
5 3 (25.00%) JSON
5 3 (25.00%) SOAP
5 3 (25.00%) RESTful
5 3 (25.00%) Memcached
5 3 (25.00%) Node.js
6 2 (16.67%) Zend Framework
7 1 (8.333%) CakePHP
7 1 (8.333%) CSS3
7 1 (8.333%) Smarty
7 1 (8.333%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Apache
2 6 (50.00%) Drupal
3 3 (25.00%) WordPress
3 3 (25.00%) concrete5
3 3 (25.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) MySQL
2 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Subversion
1 3 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (83.33%) PHP Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Drupal Developer
3 3 (25.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 2 (16.67%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (8.333%) MySQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) OO
2 6 (50.00%) Web Development
3 4 (33.33%) MVC
4 3 (25.00%) SEO
4 3 (25.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PHP
2 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) PHP5
4 3 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) SQL