The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Zend products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Kent region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within Zend Technologies Ltd.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Zend
Rank 90 67 98
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +31
Permanent jobs citing Zend 2 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.170% 0.982% 0.190%
As % of the Vendors category 0.374% 2.096% 0.333%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 2
Average salary £50,000 £34,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+47.05% +23.63%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £31,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.00%
All Vendors
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
535 334 601
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 45.45% 46.84% 57.13%
Number of salaries quoted 460 305 534
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Zend
South East

Zend
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Zend Jobs Demand Trend

Zend
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Zend across the Kent region.

Kent Zend Salary Trend

Zend
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Zend.

1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 7 (77.78%) MySQL
3 5 (55.56%) Zend Framework
3 5 (55.56%) PHP5
3 5 (55.56%) Open Source
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) MVC
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) Apache
5 3 (33.33%) Mac OS X
5 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (33.33%) CSS
5 3 (33.33%) Gentoo
5 3 (33.33%) PHPUnit
5 3 (33.33%) Capistrano
5 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (33.33%) Puppet
5 3 (33.33%) Active Record
5 3 (33.33%) RSpec
5 3 (33.33%) Redis
5 3 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Phing
5 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (33.33%) nginx
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Ruby
5 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails

Zend
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Zend. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) Zend Framework
2 4 (44.44%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) CSS
3 3 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
5 1 (11.11%) MooTools
5 1 (11.11%) Smarty
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) Flash
5 1 (11.11%) XHTML
5 1 (11.11%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
2 3 (33.33%) nginx
3 2 (22.22%) Drupal
4 1 (11.11%) WordPress
4 1 (11.11%) CMS
4 1 (11.11%) Joomla!
4 1 (11.11%) concrete5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MySQL
2 3 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) RSpec
1 3 (33.33%) PHPUnit
1 3 (33.33%) Capistrano
1 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 3 (33.33%) Phing
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (11.11%) Advertising
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) PHP Developer
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior PHP Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Designer
5 1 (11.11%) PHP MySQL Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Programmer
5 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (11.11%) PHP Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Open Source
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Mac OS X
2 3 (33.33%) Gentoo
2 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) MVC
2 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (33.33%) Active Record
2 3 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) OOP
4 1 (11.11%) OO
4 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
4 1 (11.11%) SOA
4 1 (11.11%) SEO
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) Content Management
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (11.11%) Time Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PHP
2 5 (55.56%) PHP5
3 3 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (33.33%) Ruby
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (11.11%) PHP4
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet