The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank - 61 63
Contract jobs citing Zend 0 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.723% 0.346%
As % of the Vendors category - 1.923% 0.670%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £283 £225
% change year-on-year
+3.98% +25.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - £21.50
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
293 364 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 45.57% 37.60% 51.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 140 168
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £185 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £471 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 36 70
Average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -54.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Zend
East of England

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Symfony
3 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
3 1 (33.33%) CakePHP
3 1 (33.33%) Magento
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Symfony
2 1 (33.33%) Zend Framework
2 1 (33.33%) CakePHP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Web Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PHP