The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool 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 Liverpool 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 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Zend 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 4.000% - -
As % of the Vendors category 8.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £288 £228
% change year-on-year
+3.47% +26.37%
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
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
72 94 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 48.00% 50.00% 51.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 46 39
Average daily rate £425 £300 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £188 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £356 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 6
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.50 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.30% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £11.80 £10.28
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £67.40 £29.60 £21.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Zend
Merseyside

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 16 (100.00%) PHP
1 16 (100.00%) MySQL
2 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
2 11 (68.75%) MVC
2 11 (68.75%) CSS
2 11 (68.75%) OO
2 11 (68.75%) CodeIgniter
3 10 (62.50%) HTML5
3 10 (62.50%) CSS3
4 8 (50.00%) Mobile App
4 8 (50.00%) jQuery
5 5 (31.25%) Retail
5 5 (31.25%) Web Development
5 5 (31.25%) Business Development
5 5 (31.25%) XPath
5 5 (31.25%) Degree
5 5 (31.25%) SEO
5 5 (31.25%) CMS
5 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (31.25%) NetBeans
5 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
5 5 (31.25%) OOD
5 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
5 5 (31.25%) XML
5 5 (31.25%) XSD
5 5 (31.25%) XSLT
5 5 (31.25%) Windows
5 5 (31.25%) Linux
5 5 (31.25%) Oracle
5 5 (31.25%) SQL Server

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 11 (68.75%) CSS
1 11 (68.75%) CodeIgniter
2 10 (62.50%) HTML5
2 10 (62.50%) CSS3
3 8 (50.00%) jQuery
4 5 (31.25%) XML
4 5 (31.25%) XSD
4 5 (31.25%) XSLT
4 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET
4 5 (31.25%) .NET
4 5 (31.25%) Google Maps API
4 5 (31.25%) CakePHP
4 5 (31.25%) Zend Framework
4 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (31.25%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (18.75%) JSON
5 3 (18.75%) Ajax
6 2 (12.50%) Node.js
6 2 (12.50%) Backbone.js
7 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) CMS
1 5 (31.25%) Umbraco
1 5 (31.25%) WordPress
1 5 (31.25%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) MySQL
2 5 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) NetBeans
1 5 (31.25%) Visual Studio
1 5 (31.25%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (31.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) PHP Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Leader
3 5 (31.25%) .NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Lead Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Lead PHP Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Technical Developer
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Web Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Front-End Web Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (18.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) MVC
1 11 (68.75%) OO
2 5 (31.25%) Web Development
2 5 (31.25%) Business Development
2 5 (31.25%) SEO
2 5 (31.25%) E-Commerce
2 5 (31.25%) OOD
3 3 (18.75%) Mobile Application Development
3 3 (18.75%) OOP
4 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) PHP
2 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) XPath
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
1 5 (31.25%) Google
1 5 (31.25%) Facebook
1 5 (31.25%) Twitter