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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 376 420
Rank change year-on-year +13 +44 +65
Contract jobs citing Symfony 6 15 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.040% 0.072% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.44% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 22
10th Percentile - £324 £325
25th Percentile £350 £325 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £450 £488 £500
90th Percentile - - £550
UK median daily rate £400 £375 £419
% change year-on-year +6.67% -10.45% -11.84%
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 2,749 3,403 4,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.45% 16.36% 17.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,871 2,207 3,067
10th Percentile £317 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £411 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 242 97
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.64 £22.39
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £58.30 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% -2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £73.85 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £55.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +3.18% -14.06% +20.19%

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

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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 12 July 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
Midlands +2 3 £400 +14.29% 4
East Midlands 0 3 £400 - 4
South East +35 2 - - 17
North West +5 1 - - 2
North of England +3 1 - - 10
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UK

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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 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 3 (50.00%) PHP Symfony Developer
3 3 (50.00%) Symfony Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) React
2 2 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) Laravel
3 1 (16.67%) Phalcon
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (16.67%) Vue
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) API Development
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) OO PHP
3 1 (16.67%) OWASP
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Zend