Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Zend Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend Framework over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Manchester region.

 Zend Framework
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank6257-
Rank change year-on-year
Down-5New entry-
Matching contract IT job ads440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester0.458 %0.496 %-
As % of the Application Development category1.581 %1.932 %-
Daily rates quoted200
Average daily rate£188--
UK excluding London average daily rate£219-£255
Hourly rates quoted010
Average hourly rate-£22.50-
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.00£26.25-
% change year-on-year
-35.23 %-
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
253207317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester28.98 %25.65 %26.37 %
Daily rates quoted1044162
Average daily rate£275£350£340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42 %+2.940 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£175£192£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£500£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted172547
Average hourly rate£28.50£25.00£28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.00 %-10.71 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£8.65£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£145.00£34.77£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
Zend Framework North WestZend Framework
North West

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.

Zend Framework
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Zend Framework across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester Zend Framework Demand Trend

Zend Framework
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Zend Framework across the Manchester region.

Manchester Zend Framework Daily Rate Trend

Zend Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Zend Framework Hourly Rate Trend

Zend Framework
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Zend Framework 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 Framework.

15 (100.00 %)PHP
15 (100.00 %)Zend
24 (80.00 %)MySQL
33 (60.00 %)LAMP
33 (60.00 %)Magento
42 (40.00 %)CMS
42 (40.00 %)Drupal
42 (40.00 %)PHP5
42 (40.00 %)PHP4
51 (20.00 %)jQuery
51 (20.00 %)CodeIgniter
51 (20.00 %)CakePHP
51 (20.00 %)AJAX
51 (20.00 %)Symfony
51 (20.00 %)JavaScript
51 (20.00 %)Linux
51 (20.00 %)OO
51 (20.00 %)SQL
51 (20.00 %)Open Source

Zend Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Zend Framework 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 Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (60.00 %)LAMP
21 (20.00 %)jQuery
21 (20.00 %)CodeIgniter
21 (20.00 %)CakePHP
21 (20.00 %)AJAX
21 (20.00 %)Symfony
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (60.00 %)Magento
22 (40.00 %)CMS
22 (40.00 %)Drupal
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (80.00 %)MySQL
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15 (100.00 %)Developer
15 (100.00 %)PHP Developer
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (20.00 %)Open Source
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (20.00 %)Linux
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (20.00 %)OO
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (100.00 %)PHP
22 (40.00 %)PHP5
22 (40.00 %)PHP4
31 (20.00 %)JavaScript
31 (20.00 %)SQL
Manchester IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (100.00 %)Zend