Symfony Contracts in the UK excluding London

Symfony
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Symfony skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Symfony over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 382 442
Rank change year-on-year +57 +60 +39
Contract jobs citing Symfony 11 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.082% 0.083%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 0.52% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 17
10th Percentile - £313 £320
25th Percentile £350 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £360
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £425
90th Percentile - - £475
UK median daily rate £400 £363 £400
% change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

Symfony falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Symfony
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Symfony as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Symfony in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Symfony in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Symfony in the UK excluding London

Symfony
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Symfony in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Symfony in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symfony within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +42 4 - - 14
Midlands +23 4 £400 +14.29% 4
East Midlands +12 4 £400 - 2
Scotland - 2 £417 -
North West +17 1 - - 8
North of England +14 1 - - 16
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UK

Symfony
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Redis
2 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Subversion
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) PHP Developer
3 4 (36.36%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Symfony Developer
4 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Laravel
1 5 (45.45%) React
2 3 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) Phalcon
2 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) Vue
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Front End Development
2 4 (36.36%) Fintech
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) API Development
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
3 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) MVC
3 3 (27.27%) OO
3 3 (27.27%) OO PHP
3 3 (27.27%) OWASP
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (18.18%) Database Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) PHP
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Zend
2 2 (18.18%) SAP