The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Zend Framework skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend Framework over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

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.

Zend Framework
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank469510476
Rank change year-on-year
Up+41Down-34
Matching contract IT job ads1086863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.185 %0.113 %0.114 %
As % of the Application Development category0.720 %0.411 %0.408 %
Number of daily rates quoted764941
Average daily rate£320£260£310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07 %-16.12 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£233£200£200
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£350£338
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£206£213
% change year-on-year
+45.45 %-2.94 %
Number of hourly rates quoted117
Average hourly rate£21.50£21.50£17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+26.47 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£21.50£17.00
% change year-on-year
-+26.47 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
150001653615438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.66 %27.49 %27.97 %
Number of daily rates quoted880896388217
Average daily rate£350£393£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.82 %+7.53 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted387569438
Average hourly rate£32.50£36.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.72 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£19.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.00£47.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£36.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-12.32 %+28.07 %

Zend Framework
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Zend Framework within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Zend Framework Demand Trend

Zend Framework
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Zend Framework within the UK.

Zend Framework Daily Rate Trend

Zend Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Zend Framework within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Zend Framework Daily Rate Histogram

Zend Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Zend Framework within the UK.

Zend Framework Hourly Rate Trend

Zend Framework
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+42108£320+23.07 %
LondonUp+4968£350+27.27 %
South EastUp+812£303+42.35 %
City of LondonUp+2310£308+11.81 %
West MidlandsDown-810£225+5.88 %
HampshireNew entry-8£310-
North WestDown-36£300+50.94 %
BirminghamNew entry-6£225-
East of EnglandDown-45£450-
CheshireNew entry-5£275-
HarrowNo change04--
South WestNew entry-4£338-
BasingstokeNew entry-4--
HertfordshireDown-33£450-
YorkshireDown-183£375-
WatfordNew entry-3£450-
FarnboroughNew entry-3£310-
West YorkshireDown-222£350-
LeedsNew entry-2£350-
MaidstoneNew entry-2£213-
BristolNew entry-2£300-
GloucestershireNew entry-2£400-
KentNew entry-2£213-
HammersmithNew entry-2£398-
South YorkshireUp+31£400-
ManchesterDown-161£400+88.23 %
NorfolkNew entry-1--
SurreyNew entry-1--
EssexNew entry-1£250-
SheffieldNew entry-1£400-

Zend Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1255 (100.00 %)PHP
2253 (99.22 %)Zend
3178 (69.80 %)CSS
4167 (65.49 %)HTML
5136 (53.33 %)MySQL
6135 (52.94 %)JavaScript
7113 (44.31 %)MVC
896 (37.65 %)jQuery
970 (27.45 %)Symfony
1064 (25.10 %)LAMP
1064 (25.10 %)XHTML
1159 (23.14 %)PHP5
1257 (22.35 %)Ajax
1354 (21.18 %)Subversion
1453 (20.78 %)HTML5
1552 (20.39 %)Agile Software Development
1647 (18.43 %)OO
1745 (17.65 %)XML
1745 (17.65 %)CSS3
1838 (14.90 %)Web Services
1937 (14.51 %)E-Commerce
2036 (14.12 %)Linux
2135 (13.73 %)Marketing
2234 (13.33 %)Apache
2234 (13.33 %)Magento
2333 (12.94 %)Photoshop
2432 (12.55 %)SQL Server
2432 (12.55 %)CMS
2432 (12.55 %)CakePHP
2530 (11.76 %)Smarty

Zend Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1178 (69.80 %)CSS
2167 (65.49 %)HTML
396 (37.65 %)jQuery
470 (27.45 %)Symfony
564 (25.10 %)LAMP
564 (25.10 %)XHTML
657 (22.35 %)Ajax
753 (20.78 %)HTML5
845 (17.65 %)XML
845 (17.65 %)CSS3
938 (14.90 %)Web Services
1032 (12.55 %)CakePHP
1130 (11.76 %)Smarty
1229 (11.37 %)JSON
1322 (8.627 %)ASP
1322 (8.627 %)JSP
1418 (7.059 %)RESTful
1512 (4.706 %).NET
1611 (4.314 %)CodeIgniter
178 (3.137 %)Open Graph
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
134 (13.33 %)Apache
134 (13.33 %)Magento
232 (12.55 %)CMS
327 (10.59 %)WordPress
421 (8.235 %)Drupal
512 (4.706 %)Moodle
69 (3.529 %)Alfresco
76 (2.353 %)SugarCRM
76 (2.353 %)SilverStripe
85 (1.961 %)Joomla!
93 (1.176 %)Facebook Platform
93 (1.176 %)SAS
102 (0.784 %)TYPO3
111 (0.392 %)Amazon AWS
111 (0.392 %)Apache Solr
111 (0.392 %)nginx
111 (0.392 %)MediaWiki
111 (0.392 %)Tomcat
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
133 (12.94 %)Photoshop
28 (3.137 %)MS Excel
31 (0.392 %)MS Visio
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (3.922 %)Intranet
24 (1.569 %)Firewall
33 (1.176 %)SSL
33 (1.176 %)HTTP
33 (1.176 %)Internet
41 (0.392 %)OpenLDAP
41 (0.392 %)OpenVPN
41 (0.392 %)SAN
41 (0.392 %)Broadband
41 (0.392 %)Symposium
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1136 (53.33 %)MySQL
232 (12.55 %)SQL Server
37 (2.745 %)SQLite
46 (2.353 %)Oracle 8/8i
54 (1.569 %)DB2
63 (1.176 %)MongoDB
71 (0.392 %)Redis
71 (0.392 %)FileMaker
71 (0.392 %)Oracle 9i
71 (0.392 %)PostgreSQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
154 (21.18 %)Subversion
214 (5.490 %)PHPUnit
310 (3.922 %)Git (software)
48 (3.137 %)Selenium
57 (2.745 %)VSS/SourceSafe
66 (2.353 %)Cucumber
73 (1.176 %)JIRA
73 (1.176 %)Hudson
82 (0.784 %)NetBeans
82 (0.784 %)JUnit
82 (0.784 %)Eclipse
91 (0.392 %)JBehave
91 (0.392 %)PEAR
91 (0.392 %)Bazaar
91 (0.392 %)SpecFlow
91 (0.392 %)Behat
91 (0.392 %)Dreamweaver
91 (0.392 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
135 (13.73 %)Marketing
213 (5.098 %)Publishing
37 (2.745 %)Finance
43 (1.176 %)Music
43 (1.176 %)Games
43 (1.176 %)Retail
52 (0.784 %)Back Office
61 (0.392 %)Online Betting
61 (0.392 %)Spanish Language
61 (0.392 %)Manufacturing
61 (0.392 %)Advertising
61 (0.392 %)Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1238 (93.33 %)Developer
2215 (84.31 %)PHP Developer
334 (13.33 %)PHP MySQL Developer
416 (6.275 %)Senior Developer
515 (5.882 %)Senior PHP Developer
613 (5.098 %)LAMP Developer
712 (4.706 %)Front-End Developer
811 (4.314 %)Web Developer
96 (2.353 %)Programmer
96 (2.353 %)Lead Developer
96 (2.353 %)PHP Web Developer
96 (2.353 %)PHP Programmer
96 (2.353 %)Moodle Developer
104 (1.569 %)Architect
104 (1.569 %)Lead PHP Developer
113 (1.176 %)MySQL Developer
113 (1.176 %)Senior Programmer
113 (1.176 %)Senior PHP Programmer
122 (0.784 %)Senior Web Developer
122 (0.784 %)Team Leader
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
18 (3.137 %)Open Source
26 (2.353 %)W3C
26 (2.353 %)Learning Management System
35 (1.961 %)Digital Media
35 (1.961 %)E-Learning
44 (1.569 %)Data Protection Act
53 (1.176 %)Graphic Design
53 (1.176 %)Social Media
62 (0.784 %)Computer Science
71 (0.392 %)Online Games
71 (0.392 %)Blog
71 (0.392 %)SaaS
71 (0.392 %)DTV
71 (0.392 %)Replication
71 (0.392 %)IVR
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
136 (14.12 %)Linux
25 (1.961 %)UNIX
25 (1.961 %)Windows
32 (0.784 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (0.784 %)Windows Server 2008
32 (0.784 %)CentOS
41 (0.392 %)Apple iOS
41 (0.392 %)MVS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1113 (44.31 %)MVC
252 (20.39 %)Agile Software Development
347 (18.43 %)OO
437 (14.51 %)E-Commerce
528 (10.98 %)OOP
626 (10.20 %)SEO
717 (6.667 %)Web Development
815 (5.882 %)Unit Testing
912 (4.706 %)Continuous Integration
1010 (3.922 %)Scrum
119 (3.529 %)Migration
119 (3.529 %)Content Management
119 (3.529 %)TDD
127 (2.745 %)SOA
134 (1.569 %)UML
134 (1.569 %)B2B
134 (1.569 %)B2C
134 (1.569 %)Test Strategy
134 (1.569 %)BDD
134 (1.569 %)Integration Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1255 (100.00 %)PHP
2135 (52.94 %)JavaScript
359 (23.14 %)PHP5
425 (9.804 %)SQL
57 (2.745 %)Java
66 (2.353 %)Ruby
66 (2.353 %)ActionScript
75 (1.961 %)Perl
83 (1.176 %)ActionScript 3.0
83 (1.176 %)Python
92 (0.784 %)Objective-C
92 (0.784 %)Shell Script
92 (0.784 %)PHP4
101 (0.392 %)Bash shell
101 (0.392 %)XQuery
101 (0.392 %)C#
101 (0.392 %)C++
101 (0.392 %)XPath
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (1.176 %)Security Cleared
22 (0.784 %)Microsoft Certification
31 (0.392 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (1.176 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (3.529 %)Shibboleth
22 (0.784 %)Varnish
31 (0.392 %)Active Directory
31 (0.392 %)NFS
31 (0.392 %)Samba
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.392 %)Zenoss
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1253 (99.22 %)Zend
216 (6.275 %)Oracle
313 (5.098 %)Facebook
411 (4.314 %)Microsoft
59 (3.529 %)Mercator
67 (2.745 %)Twitter
75 (1.961 %)Google
81 (0.392 %)Avaya
81 (0.392 %)Red Hat
81 (0.392 %)Adobe
81 (0.392 %)Nortel
81 (0.392 %)ATG
81 (0.392 %)Yahoo!