The first table below looks at the demand for Zend Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend Framework 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 of the Application Development category for the South 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend Framework
Rank 217 235 233
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -2
Contract jobs citing Zend Framework 12 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.151% 0.106% 0.088%
As % of the Application Development category 0.621% 0.470% 0.334%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 7
Average daily rate £338 £303 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.57% +34.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £213 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £310 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £301 £206
% change year-on-year
+3.73% +46.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1931 2339 2697
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.38% 22.61% 26.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1011 1158 1245
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 108 196
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.90 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £40.30 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Zend Framework
England

Zend Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Zend Framework Jobs Demand Trend

Zend Framework
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Zend Framework Daily Rate Trend

Zend Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Zend Framework Hourly Rate Trend

Zend Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Zend Framework within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Surrey - 6 - -
Berkshire - 3 £350 -
Hampshire -8 1 £325 +4.83%
Middlesex - 1 £250 -
Home Counties - 1 £300 -
Zend Framework
England

Zend Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 18 (100.00%) PHP
1 18 (100.00%) Zend
2 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 14 (77.78%) MySQL
3 13 (72.22%) jQuery
4 10 (55.56%) Linux
4 10 (55.56%) MVC
5 9 (50.00%) CSS
6 8 (44.44%) OO
7 6 (33.33%) HTML
7 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (33.33%) LAMP
8 5 (27.78%) Scrum
8 5 (27.78%) OOP
8 5 (27.78%) Blackberry
8 5 (27.78%) iPhone
8 5 (27.78%) iPad
8 5 (27.78%) PHP5
9 4 (22.22%) Ajax
9 4 (22.22%) SQL
9 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
10 3 (16.67%) OOD
10 3 (16.67%) Subversion
10 3 (16.67%) Apache
10 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
10 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
10 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
10 3 (16.67%) PHPUnit
10 3 (16.67%) Change Control
11 2 (11.11%) Phing

Zend Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

Application Development
1 13 (72.22%) jQuery
2 9 (50.00%) CSS
3 6 (33.33%) HTML
3 6 (33.33%) LAMP
4 4 (22.22%) Ajax
5 2 (11.11%) REST
5 2 (11.11%) JSON
5 2 (11.11%) SOAP
6 1 (5.556%) .NET
6 1 (5.556%) XML
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.556%) CSS3
6 1 (5.556%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) Magento
3 1 (5.556%) CMS
3 1 (5.556%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) Drupal
3 1 (5.556%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Fireworks
1 1 (5.556%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) MySQL
2 1 (5.556%) JasperReports
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Subversion
1 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 3 (16.67%) PHPUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Phing
2 2 (11.11%) Ant
3 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.556%) Games
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.556%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 15 (83.33%) PHP Developer
3 4 (22.22%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Blackberry
1 5 (27.78%) iPhone
1 5 (27.78%) iPad
2 1 (5.556%) Online Games
2 1 (5.556%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) MVC
2 8 (44.44%) OO
3 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (27.78%) Scrum
4 5 (27.78%) OOP
5 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
6 3 (16.67%) OOD
6 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) Change Control
7 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (11.11%) Kanban
7 2 (11.11%) Extreme Programming
8 1 (5.556%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) PHP
2 14 (77.78%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) PHP5
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Zend
2 1 (5.556%) Adobe
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle