The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 22 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 England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 336 323 424
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +101
Contract jobs citing Zend 185 270 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.438% 0.498% 0.258%
As % of the Vendors category 0.939% 1.077% 0.560%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 194 99
Average daily rate £313 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £377 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £288 £228
% change year-on-year
+3.47% +26.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 £105.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-73.04% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £111.25 -
% change year-on-year
-74.38% -
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19694 25078 25524
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.65% 46.23% 46.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10834 13246 13131
Average daily rate £400 £400 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1141 1256 1497
Average hourly rate £19.56 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.18% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.34 £11.50 £11.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Zend
UK

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Zend across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Zend Daily Rate Histogram

Zend
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Zend across the England region.

England Zend Hourly 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 England region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
London +2 120 £325 -7.14%
South East +21 28 £294 -0.42%
North West -17 10 £288 -0.86%
South West +27 8 £260 +13.04%
East Midlands - 6 £300 -
East of England +7 5 £303 -19.33%
West Midlands -3 3 - -
North East +14 1 - -
Yorkshire -16 1 £195 -40.00%
Zend
UK

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 364 (98.91%) PHP
2 227 (61.68%) MySQL
3 204 (55.43%) CSS
4 181 (49.18%) JavaScript
5 159 (43.21%) HTML
6 135 (36.68%) jQuery
7 132 (35.87%) MVC
8 123 (33.42%) OO
9 116 (31.52%) Zend Framework
10 102 (27.72%) PHP5
11 94 (25.54%) Symfony
11 94 (25.54%) Linux
12 85 (23.10%) Git (software)
13 78 (21.20%) HTML5
14 74 (20.11%) Apache
15 70 (19.02%) XML
16 67 (18.21%) CodeIgniter
17 66 (17.93%) LAMP
18 65 (17.66%) Subversion
19 57 (15.49%) Web Services
20 55 (14.95%) Agile Software Development
21 52 (14.13%) Magento
22 51 (13.86%) OOP
23 49 (13.32%) CSS3
24 48 (13.04%) Scrum
25 47 (12.77%) CakePHP
26 46 (12.50%) E-Commerce
27 44 (11.96%) Drupal
27 44 (11.96%) RESTful
28 40 (10.87%) WordPress

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 204 (55.43%) CSS
2 159 (43.21%) HTML
3 135 (36.68%) jQuery
4 116 (31.52%) Zend Framework
5 94 (25.54%) Symfony
6 78 (21.20%) HTML5
7 70 (19.02%) XML
8 67 (18.21%) CodeIgniter
9 66 (17.93%) LAMP
10 57 (15.49%) Web Services
11 49 (13.32%) CSS3
12 47 (12.77%) CakePHP
13 44 (11.96%) RESTful
14 28 (7.609%) Ajax
15 27 (7.337%) JSON
16 26 (7.065%) XHTML
17 23 (6.250%) REST
18 15 (4.076%) SOAP
19 12 (3.261%) .NET
20 10 (2.717%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 74 (20.11%) Apache
2 52 (14.13%) Magento
3 44 (11.96%) Drupal
4 40 (10.87%) WordPress
5 37 (10.05%) CMS
6 14 (3.804%) Joomla!
7 13 (3.533%) Apache Solr
8 8 (2.174%) Umbraco
9 6 (1.630%) nginx
9 6 (1.630%) ExpressionEngine
9 6 (1.630%) Confluence
10 5 (1.359%) IIS
11 4 (1.087%) concrete5
12 3 (0.815%) SilverStripe
12 3 (0.815%) Orchard CMS
12 3 (0.815%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.272%) Shopify
13 1 (0.272%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.272%) Amazon AWS
13 1 (0.272%) Moodle
Applications
1 3 (0.815%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.272%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.272%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (0.272%) Google Analytics
1 1 (0.272%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.348%) HTTP
2 15 (4.076%) Internet
3 3 (0.815%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (0.815%) DNS
4 2 (0.543%) Intranet
4 2 (0.543%) Extranet
5 1 (0.272%) Firewall
5 1 (0.272%) SSL
5 1 (0.272%) VoIP
5 1 (0.272%) SMTP
5 1 (0.272%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.272%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (61.68%) MySQL
2 11 (2.989%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.902%) RDBMS
4 6 (1.630%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.630%) Redis
5 5 (1.359%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.087%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.543%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.272%) Big Data
8 1 (0.272%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.272%) DB2
8 1 (0.272%) MS Access
8 1 (0.272%) SQLite
8 1 (0.272%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.272%) JasperReports
8 1 (0.272%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 85 (23.10%) Git (software)
2 65 (17.66%) Subversion
3 30 (8.152%) PHPUnit
4 15 (4.076%) Jenkins
5 9 (2.446%) Cucumber
6 8 (2.174%) JIRA
7 6 (1.630%) Behat
8 5 (1.359%) GitHub
8 5 (1.359%) Phing
8 5 (1.359%) NetBeans
8 5 (1.359%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.087%) Maven
9 4 (1.087%) Ant
9 4 (1.087%) Hudson
9 4 (1.087%) Mercurial
9 4 (1.087%) Trac
10 3 (0.815%) FogBugz
10 3 (0.815%) QUnit
10 3 (0.815%) Capistrano
10 3 (0.815%) Redmine
General
1 21 (5.707%) Retail
2 19 (5.163%) Marketing
3 14 (3.804%) Finance
4 8 (2.174%) Publishing
5 4 (1.087%) Telecoms
5 4 (1.087%) Games
6 2 (0.543%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.272%) Automotive
7 1 (0.272%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 338 (91.85%) Developer
2 262 (71.20%) PHP Developer
3 43 (11.68%) Web Developer
4 31 (8.424%) Senior Developer
5 28 (7.609%) Senior PHP Developer
6 26 (7.065%) PHP MySQL Developer
7 16 (4.348%) PHP Web Developer
8 13 (3.533%) Lead Developer
9 12 (3.261%) JavaScript Developer
10 10 (2.717%) Drupal Developer
11 9 (2.446%) Lead PHP Developer
12 8 (2.174%) PHP Drupal Developer
12 8 (2.174%) Front-End Developer
13 7 (1.902%) Programmer
14 6 (1.630%) PHP Programmer
14 6 (1.630%) Software Engineer
14 6 (1.630%) Android Developer
15 5 (1.359%) Technical Developer
15 5 (1.359%) .NET Developer
15 5 (1.359%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.967%) Digital Media
2 19 (5.163%) Open Source
3 14 (3.804%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.446%) Social Media
5 7 (1.902%) Computer Science
6 6 (1.630%) iPhone
6 6 (1.630%) iPad
7 5 (1.359%) Blackberry
7 5 (1.359%) RIA
8 3 (0.815%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.815%) Linked Data
8 3 (0.815%) BBC
8 3 (0.815%) Semantic Web
8 3 (0.815%) Replication
9 2 (0.543%) IPTV
9 2 (0.543%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.543%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.543%) Streaming Video
9 2 (0.543%) SaaS
10 1 (0.272%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 94 (25.54%) Linux
2 9 (2.446%) Android
3 8 (2.174%) Windows
4 7 (1.902%) UNIX
5 6 (1.630%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.815%) VMS
8 2 (0.543%) CentOS
8 2 (0.543%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.272%) Debian
9 1 (0.272%) Gentoo
9 1 (0.272%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.272%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (35.87%) MVC
2 123 (33.42%) OO
3 55 (14.95%) Agile Software Development
4 51 (13.86%) OOP
5 48 (13.04%) Scrum
6 46 (12.50%) E-Commerce
7 36 (9.783%) TDD
8 30 (8.152%) SOA
9 29 (7.880%) Web Development
10 20 (5.435%) BDD
11 18 (4.891%) Unit Testing
11 18 (4.891%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (3.261%) SEO
13 10 (2.717%) OOD
13 10 (2.717%) Refactoring
14 9 (2.446%) Content Management
15 8 (2.174%) Kanban
16 7 (1.902%) Waterfall
17 6 (1.630%) Web Application Development
18 5 (1.359%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 364 (98.91%) PHP
2 181 (49.18%) JavaScript
3 102 (27.72%) PHP5
4 34 (9.239%) SQL
5 18 (4.891%) Java
6 16 (4.348%) Ruby
7 12 (3.261%) XPath
8 8 (2.174%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.630%) C#
10 5 (1.359%) Objective-C
10 5 (1.359%) Python
11 3 (0.815%) Perl
12 2 (0.543%) PHP4
12 2 (0.543%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.543%) Bash shell
13 1 (0.272%) ActionScript 3.0
13 1 (0.272%) tcsh
13 1 (0.272%) XQuery
13 1 (0.272%) VB
13 1 (0.272%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 12 (3.261%) Degree
2 5 (1.359%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.087%) Sun Certification
4 2 (0.543%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.272%) QA
System Software
1 4 (1.087%) Varnish
2 1 (0.272%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (0.815%) Puppet
1 3 (0.815%) Nagios
2 2 (0.543%) CA SiteMinder
3 1 (0.272%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 16 (4.348%) Oracle
2 12 (3.261%) Twitter
3 11 (2.989%) Red Hat
4 9 (2.446%) Facebook
5 8 (2.174%) Google
6 7 (1.902%) Apple
7 4 (1.087%) Microsoft
8 3 (0.815%) Adobe
8 3 (0.815%) Salesforce.com
8 3 (0.815%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.543%) Cisco
9 2 (0.543%) IBM
9 2 (0.543%) HP
9 2 (0.543%) Akamai
10 1 (0.272%) BMC
10 1 (0.272%) SAP
Essex
PHP Developer - contract - HTML, CSS, - Immediate start - My client requires a PHP developer to join their team on a 3 month contract, you will need to have at...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, South West
PHP developer (PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MVC experience - Zend, Symfony, CodeIgniter, Expression Engine) Opus Recruitment Solutions are seeking a PHP developer (PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MVC)...
OPUS
Rate: GBP150 to GBP250 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The successful PHP developer will be working for an established agency on a couple of different web based projects... Requirements OOPHP MySQL HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery) Ideally web...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £150 to £250 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The successful PHP developer will be working for an established agency on a couple of different web based projects... Requirements OOPHP MySQL HTML, CSS, Javascript (jQuery) Ideally web...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £150 to £200 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
The Zend PHP Developer role requires the following Knowledge, Skills & Experience *Zend *PHP5 *Some Frontend Exp *HTML5 / CSS3/ Jquery (Advantageous) The PHP Developer will need to have experience...
Purple Consultancy
Rate: £300 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
South East London
PHP/Zend developer (PHP/Zend/MySQL/MVC)Opus Recruitment Solutions are seeking an experienced PHP/Zend developer (PHP/Zend/MySQL/MVC) for a 3 month contract in West...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Berkshire
The successful PHP Developer will be developing new and existing systems with PHP5. The PHP Developer should be confident building a MySQL backend, as all systems have a...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Web Open technologies such as PHP, CSS, HTML, MySQL, Git, Zend The Magento Developer will need to have good written and verbal communication skills as regular client contact...
Austin Fraser
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Essential skills & experience - Strong OO PHP & MySQL - MVC code separation (Zend, Symfony, CakePHP, CodeIgniter) - Digital agency experience would be ideal but not essential This is a brilliant time...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate will work on several exciting projects over the 6 month period and liaise with some exciting clients. The agency is rapidly growing and they enjoy...
Interquest Group PLC
Rate: £275 - £350 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
My client, a London based Digital Agency is looking for a PHP Zend developer to start Asap for an initial 6 week period.
Premier Group Recruitment
Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City Of London
2x PHP developer (PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS) Opus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking 2 experienced PHP developers (PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS) for a leading agency in Central London-...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
UK Central London
My client, a London based Digital Agency is looking for a PHP Zend developer to start Asap for an initial 6 week period.
Premier Group
Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Manchester, North West
PHP Engineer - OOP - Javascript - Zend My client is a large company that specialise in wireless smart metering to manage energy usage, which enables large companies to review their...
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bath, South West
PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) Opus Recruitment Solutions are seeking an experienced PHP web applications developer (PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for an initial...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP320 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
South West London
The successful applicant will have the following skills with at least 4 years proven experience in: PHP OOP, ZEND, OS/Custom CMS, Developing using frameworks, Oracle, XPath, SQL,...
Conex Europe Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP Developer will also develop and test reliable...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Contract PHP Developer - Hampshire Coast - circa £300pd... The successful Contract PHP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The PHP...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
A highly recognizable brand within the marketing world, has a contract requirement for a PHP Developer, for at least six months. Based in the heart of Central London,...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £250 - £290 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Portsmouth, South East
The successful Contract LAMP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects. The LAMP Web Solutions Developer will also develop and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Contract LAMP Web Solutions Developer - Hampshire Coast - circa £300pd... The successful Contract LAMP Developer will support the company's global ecommerce expansion and will assist with digital projects.....
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £275 - £300 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills & Background *Highly skilled in OO PHP programming around 5-7+ years of experience required. *Must be skilled in using Zend framework 2+ years of experience. *Experienced...
Eutopia Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The skill set is for the PHP developer : - Zend framework ( 1.11 ) or Doctrine ( 2.2 ) or Symfony - PHP ( 5.3 ) - REST - SOA - PHPUnit - Scrum Anyone showing evidence...
Vertical IT
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
My client a global Retail organisation looking for a PHP with Doctrine for a excellent 6 month contract: Required Skills: * RESTful service API in line Zend coding standards; *...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £280 - £290 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
Over 4 years commercial experience with Java, OO, PHP, Zend, MySQL and Apache programming OO system design experience... Key Words: - Web Services - Java - OO - PHP - MySQL - Apache - Relational...
Gregory James
Rate: £300 to £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The PHP Developer will have a strong background in designing and delivering complex web based applications using PHP, Linux, MySQL and ideally working with the Zend framework. Additionally...
People Source Consulting
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Desirable, but not essential is experience in any of the following: - Integrating with RESTful web services layer - Agile (Scrum or XP) - Modern web technologies and frameworks such as...
Parham Consulting
Rate: Up to £350 per day Maximum £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bristol, South West
The role: We are looking for an experienced PHP developer to join our multi-skilled team. We do not believe in a one-size-fits-all programming language...
Computer Futures
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
Knowledge and experience in implementing software (end to end development) using a range of software tools and languages such as PHP Perl, Python, Mysql, HTML, CSS, Javascript and...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Dagenham, Essex
The ASP.Net C# Developer will get the opportunity to work with MVC4 and SQL Server 2012. Ideally the ASP.Net C# Developer will have previous experience with...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013