The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 68 53 54
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +1
Contract jobs citing Zend 4 13 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.528% 1.461% 0.164%
As % of the Vendors category 1.198% 2.948% 0.465%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 1
Average daily rate £280 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £290 £225
% change year-on-year
+1.29% +28.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £190.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-85.00% +783.72%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
334 441 215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 44.12% 49.55% 35.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 252 104
Average daily rate £280 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £170 £182
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £450 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 25
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.00 £17.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -12.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £11.40 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Zend
West Yorkshire

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Zend Hourly Rate Trend

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 8 (88.89%) MySQL
3 7 (77.78%) MVC
4 6 (66.67%) CSS
4 6 (66.67%) OO
4 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (55.56%) Open Source
5 5 (55.56%) RIA
5 5 (55.56%) Apache
5 5 (55.56%) XHTML
5 5 (55.56%) XML
5 5 (55.56%) XSLT
5 5 (55.56%) Linux
5 5 (55.56%) B2C
5 5 (55.56%) Internet
6 2 (22.22%) HTML
7 1 (11.11%) Joomla!
7 1 (11.11%) Symfony
7 1 (11.11%) Zend Framework
7 1 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (11.11%) Drupal
7 1 (11.11%) jQuery
7 1 (11.11%) WordPress
7 1 (11.11%) Magento
7 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (11.11%) Retail
7 1 (11.11%) CMS
7 1 (11.11%) C
7 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 6 (66.67%) CSS
2 5 (55.56%) XHTML
2 5 (55.56%) XML
2 5 (55.56%) XSLT
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) Symfony
4 1 (11.11%) Zend Framework
4 1 (11.11%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Joomla!
2 1 (11.11%) Drupal
2 1 (11.11%) WordPress
2 1 (11.11%) Magento
2 1 (11.11%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) MySQL
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (88.89%) PHP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Web Developer
3 2 (22.22%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (11.11%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Web Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Open Source
1 5 (55.56%) RIA
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 6 (66.67%) OO
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (55.56%) B2C
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) C