The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Scotland 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 121 107 -
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -
Contract jobs citing Zend 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.079% 0.113% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.184% 0.274% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £200 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £270 £225
% change year-on-year
+6.48% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year
-12.30% -
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1087 1094 1236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 43.08% 41.08% 43.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 459 569
Average daily rate £373 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 51 41
Average hourly rate £14.50 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £35.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
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Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Zend Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Zend Daily Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zend within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh -1 2 - -
Glasgow - - - - 4
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (100.00%) Drupal
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) OOP
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) W3C
3 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Ruby
3 2 (50.00%) Google
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) SEO
3 2 (50.00%) CMS
3 2 (50.00%) Google Maps API
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (50.00%) WAI
3 2 (50.00%) Symfony
3 2 (50.00%) Zend Framework
3 2 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
3 2 (50.00%) PHP5
3 2 (50.00%) Twitter
3 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) CSS3
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (25.00%) CakePHP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Google Maps API
2 2 (50.00%) Symfony
2 2 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 2 (50.00%) CodeIgniter
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) CakePHP
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Drupal
2 2 (50.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
2 2 (50.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) SEO
1 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Ruby
2 2 (50.00%) PHP5
2 2 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) WAI
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Twitter
Glasgow, Scotland
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