The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Zend over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 109 94 93
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -1
Contract jobs citing Zend 1 18 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.054% 0.806% 0.273%
As % of the Vendors category 0.116% 1.753% 0.681%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 3
Average daily rate £195 £325 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +41.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £289 £228
% change year-on-year
-0.43% +26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £111.25 -
% change year-on-year
-74.38% -
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
863 1027 734
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 46.45% 45.97% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 516 301
Average daily rate £320 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 76 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.90% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.75 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Zend
England

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Zend Daily Rate Trend

Zend
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Zend Hourly Rate Trend

Zend
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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire -11 1 £195 -40.00%
Zend
England

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 10 (100.00%) PHP
2 9 (90.00%) MySQL
3 8 (80.00%) MVC
4 7 (70.00%) CSS
4 7 (70.00%) OO
4 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (60.00%) XML
6 5 (50.00%) Apache
6 5 (50.00%) XSLT
6 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 5 (50.00%) XHTML
6 5 (50.00%) B2C
6 5 (50.00%) Internet
6 5 (50.00%) RIA
6 5 (50.00%) Open Source
7 3 (30.00%) HTML
8 1 (10.00%) Retail
8 1 (10.00%) Subversion
8 1 (10.00%) Workflow Management
8 1 (10.00%) Joomla!
8 1 (10.00%) Symfony
8 1 (10.00%) Zend Framework
8 1 (10.00%) CodeIgniter
8 1 (10.00%) Drupal
8 1 (10.00%) PHP5
8 1 (10.00%) jQuery
8 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 1 (10.00%) WordPress
8 1 (10.00%) Magento

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) XSLT
3 5 (50.00%) XHTML
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) Symfony
5 1 (10.00%) Zend Framework
5 1 (10.00%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) XSL
5 1 (10.00%) Yii
Application Platforms
1 5 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Joomla!
2 1 (10.00%) Drupal
2 1 (10.00%) WordPress
2 1 (10.00%) Magento
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (90.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) Web Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) RIA
1 5 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) MVC
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (50.00%) B2C
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow Management
5 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) OOP
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP5
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python