The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 193 221 237
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +16
Contract jobs citing Zend 30 26 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.384% 0.256% 0.144%
As % of the Vendors category 0.773% 0.511% 0.292%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 11
Average daily rate £278 £275 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.90% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £320 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £283 £225
% change year-on-year
+3.98% +25.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 - £21.50
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3883 5089 5129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 49.69% 50.10% 49.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1898 2223 2014
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 380 413
Average hourly rate £19.63 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.02% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.34 £11.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
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England

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Zend across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Zend Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Zend Hourly 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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 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 +24 6 - -
Hampshire -9 6 £325 +4.83%
Berkshire +18 5 £350 -
Buckinghamshire +10 5 £290 +5.45%
Kent -1 3 £225 +5.88%
Home Counties - 3 £220 -
Middlesex - 1 £250 -
East Sussex - 1 £200 -
Zend
England

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 41 (100.00%) PHP
2 26 (63.41%) MySQL
3 25 (60.98%) jQuery
4 23 (56.10%) MVC
5 21 (51.22%) JavaScript
6 20 (48.78%) CSS
6 20 (48.78%) Zend Framework
7 19 (46.34%) HTML
8 15 (36.59%) Linux
9 12 (29.27%) OO
10 10 (24.39%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (21.95%) LAMP
11 9 (21.95%) Symfony
11 9 (21.95%) CakePHP
11 9 (21.95%) PHP5
11 9 (21.95%) E-Commerce
12 8 (19.51%) OOP
12 8 (19.51%) Subversion
13 7 (17.07%) Scrum
13 7 (17.07%) Drupal
13 7 (17.07%) SQL
14 6 (14.63%) Apache
15 5 (12.20%) Blackberry
15 5 (12.20%) CMS
15 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
15 5 (12.20%) iPhone
15 5 (12.20%) Git (software)
15 5 (12.20%) iPad
16 4 (9.756%) HTML5
16 4 (9.756%) Kanban

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 25 (60.98%) jQuery
2 20 (48.78%) Zend Framework
2 20 (48.78%) CSS
3 19 (46.34%) HTML
4 9 (21.95%) LAMP
4 9 (21.95%) Symfony
4 9 (21.95%) CakePHP
5 4 (9.756%) REST
5 4 (9.756%) CSS3
5 4 (9.756%) JSON
5 4 (9.756%) HTML5
5 4 (9.756%) Ajax
5 4 (9.756%) .NET
6 3 (7.317%) Web Services
6 3 (7.317%) Yii
7 2 (4.878%) CodeIgniter
7 2 (4.878%) XML
7 2 (4.878%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.878%) SOAP
8 1 (2.439%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.07%) Drupal
2 6 (14.63%) Apache
3 5 (12.20%) CMS
4 4 (9.756%) WordPress
5 3 (7.317%) IIS
5 3 (7.317%) Joomla!
6 2 (4.878%) Magento
7 1 (2.439%) TYPO3
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.439%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.439%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (63.41%) MySQL
2 3 (7.317%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.439%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Subversion
2 5 (12.20%) Git (software)
3 3 (7.317%) PHPUnit
4 2 (4.878%) Phing
4 2 (4.878%) Ant
5 1 (2.439%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (7.317%) Finance
2 2 (4.878%) Marketing
3 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.439%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (82.93%) Developer
2 32 (78.05%) PHP Developer
3 4 (9.756%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 2 (4.878%) Architect
4 2 (4.878%) Integration Architect
4 2 (4.878%) Lead Architect
5 1 (2.439%) LAMP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Blackberry
1 5 (12.20%) iPhone
1 5 (12.20%) iPad
2 3 (7.317%) Open Source
2 3 (7.317%) Social Media
3 1 (2.439%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Linux
2 1 (2.439%) Mac OS X
2 1 (2.439%) UNIX
2 1 (2.439%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) MVC
2 12 (29.27%) OO
3 10 (24.39%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (21.95%) E-Commerce
5 8 (19.51%) OOP
6 7 (17.07%) Scrum
7 4 (9.756%) OOD
7 4 (9.756%) Kanban
8 3 (7.317%) Data Protection
8 3 (7.317%) Change Control
8 3 (7.317%) Web Development
8 3 (7.317%) Unit Testing
9 2 (4.878%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.878%) Load Balancing
9 2 (4.878%) Extreme Programming
9 2 (4.878%) Content Management
10 1 (2.439%) ETL
10 1 (2.439%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) PHP
2 21 (51.22%) JavaScript
3 9 (21.95%) PHP5
4 7 (17.07%) SQL
5 2 (4.878%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.878%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (4.878%) CA SiteMinder
2 1 (2.439%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (4.878%) Oracle
1 2 (4.878%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.878%) Facebook
1 2 (4.878%) Twitter
2 1 (2.439%) Adobe