Symfony Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Symfony skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symfony over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 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.

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.

Symfony
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012		Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank468533484
Rank change year-on-year
Up+65Down-49
Matching contract IT job ads1094555
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.186 %0.075 %0.100 %
As % of the Application Development category0.727 %0.272 %0.356 %
Number of daily rates quoted783322
Average daily rate£350£303£275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.70 %+10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£250£239
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£433£373£350
UK excluding London average daily rate£230£350£228
% change year-on-year
-34.28 %+53.84 %
Number of hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		150001653615438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK25.66 %27.49 %27.97 %
Number of daily rates quoted880896388217
Average daily rate£350£393£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.82 %+7.53 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted387569438
Average hourly rate£32.50£36.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.72 %+20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£19.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.00£47.50£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£36.50£28.50
% change year-on-year
-12.32 %+28.07 %

Symfony
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Symfony within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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 within the UK.

Symfony Daily Rate Trend

Symfony
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Symfony within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Symfony Daily Rate Histogram

Symfony
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Symfony within the UK.

Symfony Hourly Rate Trend

Symfony
Top 27 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. 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
EnglandUp+66108£350+15.70 %
LondonUp+7082£350+16.66 %
South EastUp+1814£310-11.42 %
City of LondonUp+2612£263-4.54 %
SurreyUp+139£320-8.57 %
South WestDown-148£228-
BristolDown-95£225-
HampshireNew entry-5£225-
HammersmithNew entry-4£398-
BasingstokeNew entry-4--
HarrowNew entry-4--
BathNew entry-3£230-
WokingNew entry-3£340-
SomersetNew entry-3£230-
East of EnglandNew entry-1£225-
WalesNew entry-1£215-
South WalesNew entry-1£215-
North WestNew entry-1£270-
YorkshireNew entry-1£400-
South YorkshireNew entry-1£400-
BedfordshireNew entry-1£225-
HounslowNew entry-1--
SheffieldNew entry-1£400-
ManchesterNew entry-1£270-
LutonNew entry-1£225-
CardiffNew entry-1£215-
CamberleyNew entry-1--

Symfony
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1197 (99.49 %)PHP
2121 (61.11 %)Zend
3120 (60.61 %)MVC
4107 (54.04 %)CSS
5101 (51.01 %)HTML
699 (50.00 %)MySQL
797 (48.99 %)JavaScript
887 (43.94 %)jQuery
970 (35.35 %)Zend Framework
1055 (27.78 %)Agile Software Development
1055 (27.78 %)XHTML
1153 (26.77 %)LAMP
1252 (26.26 %)PHP5
1252 (26.26 %)HTML5
1343 (21.72 %)CakePHP
1439 (19.70 %)CSS3
1537 (18.69 %)Subversion
1633 (16.67 %)Smarty
1732 (16.16 %)SQL Server
1830 (15.15 %)Photoshop
1830 (15.15 %)SQL
1929 (14.65 %)OO
1929 (14.65 %)Linux
1929 (14.65 %)TDD
2027 (13.64 %)OOP
2126 (13.13 %)Ajax
2225 (12.63 %)E-Commerce
2324 (12.12 %)XML
2324 (12.12 %)Marketing
2421 (10.61 %)JSON

Symfony
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1107 (54.04 %)CSS
2101 (51.01 %)HTML
387 (43.94 %)jQuery
470 (35.35 %)Zend Framework
555 (27.78 %)XHTML
653 (26.77 %)LAMP
752 (26.26 %)HTML5
843 (21.72 %)CakePHP
939 (19.70 %)CSS3
1033 (16.67 %)Smarty
1126 (13.13 %)Ajax
1224 (12.12 %)XML
1321 (10.61 %)JSON
1420 (10.10 %)Web Services
1519 (9.596 %)ASP
1618 (9.091 %)CodeIgniter
1717 (8.586 %)JSP
1815 (7.576 %)RESTful
1911 (5.556 %)Open Graph
209 (4.545 %)REST
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
118 (9.091 %)Drupal
118 (9.091 %)CMS
216 (8.081 %)Joomla!
39 (4.545 %)Apache
39 (4.545 %)TYPO3
45 (2.525 %)Magento
45 (2.525 %)WordPress
52 (1.010 %)Facebook Platform
52 (1.010 %)IIS
61 (0.505 %)Oracle Coherence
61 (0.505 %)concrete5
61 (0.505 %)Amazon AWS
61 (0.505 %)nginx
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
130 (15.15 %)Photoshop
210 (5.051 %)MS Excel
31 (0.505 %)MS Visio
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (0.505 %)Summit
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
110 (5.051 %)Intranet
24 (2.020 %)HTTP
32 (1.010 %)Broadband
41 (0.505 %)Internet
41 (0.505 %)SAN
41 (0.505 %)NAS
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
199 (50.00 %)MySQL
232 (16.16 %)SQL Server
315 (7.576 %)SQLite
44 (2.020 %)PostgreSQL
52 (1.010 %)MongoDB
52 (1.010 %)RDBMS
61 (0.505 %)NoSQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
137 (18.69 %)Subversion
219 (9.596 %)Selenium
313 (6.566 %)Git (software)
410 (5.051 %)PHPUnit
58 (4.040 %)VSS/SourceSafe
61 (0.505 %)JIRA
61 (0.505 %)Behat
61 (0.505 %)Jasmine
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
124 (12.12 %)Marketing
24 (2.020 %)Games
33 (1.515 %)Multimedia
42 (1.010 %)Music
42 (1.010 %)Finance
42 (1.010 %)Advertising
51 (0.505 %)Publishing
51 (0.505 %)Telecoms
51 (0.505 %)Online Betting
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1184 (92.93 %)Developer
2163 (82.32 %)PHP Developer
321 (10.61 %)Web Developer
414 (7.071 %)LAMP Developer
414 (7.071 %)Front-End Developer
513 (6.566 %)PHP Web Developer
513 (6.566 %)Senior Developer
612 (6.061 %)PHP MySQL Developer
711 (5.556 %)Senior PHP Developer
87 (3.535 %)Architect
87 (3.535 %)Junior
87 (3.535 %)Junior PHP Web Developer
87 (3.535 %)Junior PHP Developer
87 (3.535 %)Junior Web Developer
87 (3.535 %)Junior Developer
95 (2.525 %)Lead Developer
104 (2.020 %)Lead PHP Developer
104 (2.020 %)Senior Architect
113 (1.515 %)Web Applications Developer
113 (1.515 %)Applications Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
120 (10.10 %)Open Source
25 (2.525 %)Social Media
25 (2.525 %)iPad
25 (2.525 %)Digital Media
34 (2.020 %)Streaming Media
43 (1.515 %)Mathematics
43 (1.515 %)Computer Science
52 (1.010 %)Online Games
52 (1.010 %)N-Tier
52 (1.010 %)DTV
52 (1.010 %)Smartphone
61 (0.505 %)Replication
61 (0.505 %)Social Network
61 (0.505 %)W3C
61 (0.505 %)Video on Demand
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
129 (14.65 %)Linux
26 (3.030 %)UNIX
32 (1.010 %)CentOS
32 (1.010 %)Windows
41 (0.505 %)Solaris
41 (0.505 %)Apple iOS
41 (0.505 %)Android
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1120 (60.61 %)MVC
255 (27.78 %)Agile Software Development
329 (14.65 %)OO
329 (14.65 %)TDD
427 (13.64 %)OOP
525 (12.63 %)E-Commerce
620 (10.10 %)SEO
717 (8.586 %)Scrum
815 (7.576 %)Continuous Integration
914 (7.071 %)Pair Programming
1013 (6.566 %)Software Engineering
1111 (5.556 %)Unit Testing
126 (3.030 %)Web Development
126 (3.030 %)Release Management
135 (2.525 %)SOA
144 (2.020 %)EDA
153 (1.515 %)Refactoring
153 (1.515 %)B2C
162 (1.010 %)Online Marketing
162 (1.010 %)Test Scripting
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1197 (99.49 %)PHP
297 (48.99 %)JavaScript
352 (26.26 %)PHP5
430 (15.15 %)SQL
57 (3.535 %)Java
64 (2.020 %)PHP4
72 (1.010 %)Scala
72 (1.010 %)C++
72 (1.010 %)Python
72 (1.010 %)Ruby
81 (0.505 %)C#
81 (0.505 %)Perl
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
16 (3.030 %)Degree
24 (2.020 %)Security Cleared
32 (1.010 %)Microsoft Certification
41 (0.505 %)BC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
112 (6.061 %)QA
22 (1.010 %)WCAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (1.010 %)Active Directory
21 (0.505 %)vSphere
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.505 %)Puppet
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1121 (61.11 %)Zend
221 (10.61 %)Facebook
317 (8.586 %)Twitter
416 (8.081 %)Oracle
512 (6.061 %)Mercator
69 (4.545 %)Microsoft
72 (1.010 %)Google
81 (0.505 %)Reuters
81 (0.505 %)Dell
81 (0.505 %)Red Hat
81 (0.505 %)BT
81 (0.505 %)Sencha
81 (0.505 %)Akamai
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