The first table below looks at the demand for Symfony skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symfony 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 of the Application Development category for the City of London 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symfony
Rank 186 201 238
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +37
Contract jobs citing Symfony 15 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.238% 0.154% 0.081%
As % of the Application Development category 0.835% 0.617% 0.294%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 8
Average daily rate £325 £263 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £239 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £451 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £230 £350
% change year-on-year
+19.56% -34.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1796 1946 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.53% 25.01% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1418 1430 2105
Average daily rate £410 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.75 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Symfony
London

Symfony
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Symfony across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London Symfony Jobs Demand Trend

Symfony
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Symfony across the City of London region.

City of London Symfony Daily Rate Trend

Symfony
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Symfony Daily Rate Histogram

Symfony
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Symfony 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 Symfony.

1 27 (100.00%) PHP
2 20 (74.07%) Zend
3 18 (66.67%) CSS
4 15 (55.56%) MySQL
5 13 (48.15%) MVC
6 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
7 10 (37.04%) HTML
8 8 (29.63%) OO
8 8 (29.63%) jQuery
9 7 (25.93%) Linux
9 7 (25.93%) CodeIgniter
10 6 (22.22%) CakePHP
10 6 (22.22%) TDD
10 6 (22.22%) XHTML
10 6 (22.22%) Drupal
10 6 (22.22%) HTML5
11 5 (18.52%) PHP5
11 5 (18.52%) SQL
11 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (18.52%) LAMP
12 4 (14.81%) XML
12 4 (14.81%) CMS
12 4 (14.81%) Marketing
12 4 (14.81%) Apache
12 4 (14.81%) B2B
12 4 (14.81%) Magento
12 4 (14.81%) Git (software)
12 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
12 4 (14.81%) Open Source
13 3 (11.11%) WordPress

Symfony
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Symfony 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 Symfony. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (66.67%) CSS
2 10 (37.04%) HTML
3 8 (29.63%) jQuery
4 7 (25.93%) CodeIgniter
5 6 (22.22%) CakePHP
5 6 (22.22%) HTML5
5 6 (22.22%) XHTML
6 5 (18.52%) LAMP
7 4 (14.81%) XML
8 3 (11.11%) Yii
8 3 (11.11%) RESTful
9 2 (7.407%) Gearman
9 2 (7.407%) MooTools
9 2 (7.407%) Kohana
9 2 (7.407%) Flash
10 1 (3.704%) Django
10 1 (3.704%) CSS3
10 1 (3.704%) Ajax
10 1 (3.704%) Zend Framework
10 1 (3.704%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) Drupal
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
2 4 (14.81%) CMS
2 4 (14.81%) Magento
3 3 (11.11%) WordPress
4 2 (7.407%) Apache Solr
5 1 (3.704%) Moodle
5 1 (3.704%) ExpressionEngine
5 1 (3.704%) SilverStripe
5 1 (3.704%) MediaWiki
5 1 (3.704%) Joomla!
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.407%) Intranet
1 2 (7.407%) Extranet
2 1 (3.704%) HTTP
2 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) MySQL
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) MS Access
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Git (software)
2 2 (7.407%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.704%) PHPUnit
3 1 (3.704%) Subversion
3 1 (3.704%) Selenium
General
1 4 (14.81%) Marketing
2 2 (7.407%) Finance
2 2 (7.407%) Games
3 1 (3.704%) Retail
3 1 (3.704%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 26 (96.30%) Developer
2 20 (74.07%) PHP Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior PHP Developer
4 2 (7.407%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Lead PHP Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Drupal Developer
4 2 (7.407%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Web Developer
4 2 (7.407%) PHP Web Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Open Source
2 2 (7.407%) Digital Media
3 1 (3.704%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 1 (3.704%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) MVC
2 8 (29.63%) OO
3 6 (22.22%) TDD
4 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
5 4 (14.81%) B2B
6 2 (7.407%) E-Commerce
6 2 (7.407%) SOA
6 2 (7.407%) Scrum
6 2 (7.407%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.407%) Web Development
6 2 (7.407%) BDD
6 2 (7.407%) Game Development
7 1 (3.704%) Wealth Management
7 1 (3.704%) Use Case
7 1 (3.704%) Investment Management
7 1 (3.704%) Software Architecture
7 1 (3.704%) OOP
7 1 (3.704%) Workflow
7 1 (3.704%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) PHP
2 12 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) PHP5
4 1 (3.704%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (3.704%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.704%) tcsh
4 1 (3.704%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.704%) VB
4 1 (3.704%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.704%) Python
4 1 (3.704%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.704%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 1 (3.704%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.704%) Varnish
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) Zend
2 1 (3.704%) Twitter
2 1 (3.704%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.704%) Google
City, London
Essential skills & experience - Strong OO PHP & MySQL - MVC code separation (Zend, Symfony, CakePHP, CodeIgniter) - Digital agency experience would be ideal but not essential This is a brilliant time...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
My client, a financial services company in London requires a PHP developer for a 6-12 month contract... Key skills: PHP 5, OOP / MVC, knowledge of frameworks - Symfony /...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Rate: Market
Posted: 13 May 2013
City Of London
2x PHP developer (PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS) Opus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking 2 experienced PHP developers (PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS) for a leading agency in Central London-...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP300 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
City, London
The skill set is for the PHP developer : - Zend framework ( 1.11 ) or Doctrine ( 2.2 ) or Symfony - PHP ( 5.3 ) - REST - SOA - PHPUnit - Scrum Anyone showing evidence...
Vertical IT
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Riak, MongoDB, CouchDB, Big Table) - Knowledge of BDD testing frameworks (Cucumber, Gherkin, Pickle) - Knowledge of front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery) - Knowledge...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £300 to £450 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013