The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 24 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 North East 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 33 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Zend 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.357% 0.202% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.847% 0.407% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £289 £228
% change year-on-year
-0.43% +26.92%
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
118 246 256
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 42.14% 49.80% 58.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 123 103
Average daily rate £295 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.60% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £232 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £550 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 22 13
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.92 £10.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Zend
England

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (50.00%) PHP5

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PHP5