The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 - 80 77
Contract jobs citing Zend 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - 0.090% 0.194%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.162% 0.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £250
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
446 616 601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 52.10% 55.75% 58.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 190 246
Average daily rate £350 £345 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 40 22
Average hourly rate £20.75 £15.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.87% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.45 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Zend
Berkshire

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
1 1 (100.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP