Zend Job Trends

Zend
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Zend products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Zend over the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 706 702
Rank change year-on-year +61 -4 +315
Permanent jobs citing Zend 4 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.009% 0.020%
As % of the Vendors category 0.021% 0.025% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 11
10th Percentile £42,600 £51,297 £39,750
25th Percentile £44,625 £53,790 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £59,647 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% -0.59% +23.08%
75th Percentile £53,250 £65,051 £65,000
90th Percentile - £67,270 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 - £44,500
% change year-on-year - - -6.32%

All Vendors
UK

Zend falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,917 19,991 21,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.38% 37.30% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,706 10,124 16,690
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,860 £57,471 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +4.49% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,750 £50,055 £47,565
% change year-on-year -14.59% +5.23% -4.87%

Zend
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Zend relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Zend job vacancy trend in the UK

Zend
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zend.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Zend

Zend
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Zend within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +60 4 £49,500 -26.67% 10
UK excluding London +37 4 £49,500 - 10
Work from Home +66 3 £49,500 -4.43%
Midlands +21 3 £49,500 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £49,500 - 2
West Midlands +18 1 £42,500 - 2
South East - 1 £50,000 - 2

Zend
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (50.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Laravel
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Symfony
3 1 (25.00%) Alpine.js
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
3 1 (25.00%) Ember.js
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) LAMP
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) API Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) OOP
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL Certification