Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Symfony skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symfony over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 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 for the London region.

 Symfony
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank317290407
Rank change year-on-year
Down-27Up+117
Matching contract IT job ads46919
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.178 %0.055 %0.052 %
As % of the Application Development category0.588 %0.210 %0.188 %
Daily rates quoted1373
Average daily rate£275£250£290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-13.79 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£250£250£255
% change year-on-year
--1.960 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£22.50-
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
7823429510099
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London30.20 %26.02 %27.56 %
Daily rates quoted456918484198
Average daily rate£450£388£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.12 %-3.120 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£261£238£255
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted93102331
Average hourly rate£37.50£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.50£16.54£18.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
Symfony EnglandSymfony
England

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.

Symfony
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Symfony across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London Symfony Demand Trend

Symfony
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Symfony Daily Rate Trend

Symfony
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Symfony across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London Symfony Daily Rate Histogram

Symfony
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symfony within the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. 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
Kingston Upon ThamesNew entry-2£450-
City of LondonNew entry-2£275-
Symfony EnglandSymfony
England

Symfony
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

174 (98.67 %)PHP
252 (69.33 %)MySQL
350 (66.67 %)CSS
350 (66.67 %)MVC
446 (61.33 %)JavaScript
446 (61.33 %)OO
538 (50.67 %)XHTML
636 (48.00 %)AJAX
732 (42.67 %)Subversion
827 (36.00 %)Web Design
925 (33.33 %)PHP5
1023 (30.67 %)Zend
1121 (28.00 %)Drupal
1220 (26.67 %)YUI
1319 (25.33 %)Mercator
1416 (21.33 %)HTML
1514 (18.67 %)LAMP
1612 (16.00 %)XML
1711 (14.67 %)Linux
189 (12.00 %)Apache
198 (10.67 %)CakePHP
198 (10.67 %)Publishing
207 (9.333 %)Scrum
216 (8.000 %)Agile Software Development
216 (8.000 %)Flash
216 (8.000 %)CMS
225 (6.667 %)CodeIgniter
225 (6.667 %)jQuery
225 (6.667 %)UNIX
225 (6.667 %)Java

Symfony
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
150 (66.67 %)CSS
238 (50.67 %)XHTML
336 (48.00 %)AJAX
420 (26.67 %)YUI
516 (21.33 %)HTML
614 (18.67 %)LAMP
712 (16.00 %)XML
88 (10.67 %)CakePHP
96 (8.000 %)Flash
105 (6.667 %)CodeIgniter
105 (6.667 %)jQuery
105 (6.667 %)Web Services
114 (5.333 %)Zend Framework
123 (4.000 %)Silverlight
132 (2.667 %)SOAP
132 (2.667 %).NET
132 (2.667 %).NET Framework
132 (2.667 %)Smarty
141 (1.333 %)PRADO
141 (1.333 %)RESTful
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
121 (28.00 %)Drupal
29 (12.00 %)Apache
36 (8.000 %)CMS
42 (2.667 %)WordPress
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (2.667 %)Photoshop
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
152 (69.33 %)MySQL
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
132 (42.67 %)Subversion
21 (1.333 %)JIRA
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
18 (10.67 %)Publishing
22 (2.667 %)Government
22 (2.667 %)Games
31 (1.333 %)Marketing
31 (1.333 %)Construction
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
170 (93.33 %)Developer
248 (64.00 %)PHP Developer
39 (12.00 %)JavaScript Developer
45 (6.667 %)Web Developer
54 (5.333 %)LAMP Developer
54 (5.333 %)Front-End Developer
63 (4.000 %)CSS Developer
63 (4.000 %)Drupal Developer
72 (2.667 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
72 (2.667 %)UNIX Administrator
72 (2.667 %)PHP Web Developer
72 (2.667 %)Web Project Manager
72 (2.667 %)Administrator
72 (2.667 %)Systems Administrator
72 (2.667 %)Project Manager
72 (2.667 %)Web Manager
72 (2.667 %)Designer
81 (1.333 %)Lead Web Developer
81 (1.333 %)PHP Drupal Developer
81 (1.333 %)Lead PHP Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (5.333 %)Open Source
22 (2.667 %)Web 2.0
31 (1.333 %)Computer Science
31 (1.333 %)SCORM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
111 (14.67 %)Linux
25 (6.667 %)UNIX
32 (2.667 %)Solaris
32 (2.667 %)Red Hat Linux
32 (2.667 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
150 (66.67 %)MVC
246 (61.33 %)OO
327 (36.00 %)Web Design
47 (9.333 %)Scrum
56 (8.000 %)Agile Software Development
64 (5.333 %)Continuous Integration
64 (5.333 %)Web Development
73 (4.000 %)SEO
73 (4.000 %)TDD
73 (4.000 %)OOP
73 (4.000 %)E-Commerce
82 (2.667 %)PRINCE
82 (2.667 %)ITIL
82 (2.667 %)Performance Testing
91 (1.333 %)Unit Testing
91 (1.333 %)Time Management
91 (1.333 %)Data Migration
91 (1.333 %)Configuration Management
91 (1.333 %)Migration
91 (1.333 %)OOA/OOD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
174 (98.67 %)PHP
246 (61.33 %)JavaScript
325 (33.33 %)PHP5
45 (6.667 %)Java
53 (4.000 %)PHP4
53 (4.000 %)C++
62 (2.667 %)Python
62 (2.667 %)C#
62 (2.667 %)SQL
62 (2.667 %)VB.NET
71 (1.333 %)Ruby
71 (1.333 %)C
71 (1.333 %)Perl
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (2.667 %)PRINCE2 Certification
21 (1.333 %)Degree
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (2.667 %)QA
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (2.667 %)NFS
12 (2.667 %)qmail
21 (1.333 %)VMware Infrastructure
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
123 (30.67 %)Zend
219 (25.33 %)Mercator
32 (2.667 %)Adobe
32 (2.667 %)Red Hat
41 (1.333 %)VMware
41 (1.333 %)BMC