The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 24 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 Cheshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank - 48 69
Contract jobs citing Zend 0 15 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - 1.877% 0.310%
As % of the Vendors category - 3.326% 0.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 3
Average daily rate - £319 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +82.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £289 £228
% change year-on-year
-0.43% +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
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
360 451 475
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 49.72% 56.45% 49.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 220 249
Average daily rate £370 £355 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.22% -0.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 12
Average hourly rate £39.00 £17.50 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+122.85% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.48 £14.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Zend
North West

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) Magento
2 3 (75.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) OOP
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) Joomla!
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (50.00%) Drupal
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) WordPress
4 1 (25.00%) Symfony
4 1 (25.00%) Zend Framework
4 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (25.00%) LAMP
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (50.00%) Ajax
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Symfony
2 1 (25.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (25.00%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Magento
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
2 2 (50.00%) Joomla!
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) PHP Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Web Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL