The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicestershire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 29 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Zend 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.914% - 0.870%
As % of the Vendors category 3.670% - 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £285 £225
% change year-on-year
+3.07% +26.66%
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
109 84 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 52.15% 39.07% 50.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 25
Average daily rate £331 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.39% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £277 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 15
Average hourly rate £16.50 £9.25 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.37% -64.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £8.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.00 £32.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Zend
East Midlands

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 10 (100.00%) PHP
2 9 (90.00%) MySQL
2 9 (90.00%) HTML
2 9 (90.00%) CSS
3 8 (80.00%) PHPUnit
4 7 (70.00%) CodeIgniter
5 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (50.00%) OO
6 5 (50.00%) TDD
7 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (40.00%) Linux
7 4 (40.00%) OOP
7 4 (40.00%) Apache
7 4 (40.00%) Twitter
7 4 (40.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 3 (30.00%) Scrum
9 2 (20.00%) Zend Framework
10 1 (10.00%) REST
10 1 (10.00%) CSS3
10 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
10 1 (10.00%) HTML5
10 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
10 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
10 1 (10.00%) PHP5
10 1 (10.00%) jQuery
10 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (10.00%) WordPress
10 1 (10.00%) Android
10 1 (10.00%) Magento
10 1 (10.00%) Git (software)

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 9 (90.00%) HTML
1 9 (90.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (40.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (20.00%) Zend Framework
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) HTML5
5 1 (10.00%) REST
5 1 (10.00%) CSS3
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) XHTML
5 1 (10.00%) LAMP
5 1 (10.00%) Ajax
5 1 (10.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
2 1 (10.00%) WordPress
2 1 (10.00%) Magento
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) HTML Developer
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL Developer
3 2 (20.00%) CSS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) OO
1 5 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (40.00%) OOP
2 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Mobile Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) MVC
4 1 (10.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PHP
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP5
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Twitter
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Apple