Symfony Contracts

Symfony
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 545 643
Rank change year-on-year +45 +98 +74
Contract jobs citing Symfony 26 38 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.088% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.43% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 53
10th Percentile - - £301
25th Percentile £350 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% -11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £488 £456
90th Percentile £682 - £478
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £360
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,668 8,930 13,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.76% 20.57% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,572 6,198 10,066
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £787 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 235 153
10th Percentile £27.18 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +31.31%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.79 £74.78 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +36.84% -24.00% +27.55%

Symfony
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Symfony as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Symfony in the UK

Symfony
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Symfony.

Daily rate trend for Symfony in the UK

Symfony
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Symfony over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Symfony in the UK

Symfony
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Symfony.

Hourly rate trend for Symfony in the UK

Symfony
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
Work from Home +30 16 £388 -13.89% 54
England +48 15 £400 +14.29% 65
UK excluding London +54 11 £400 - 50
London +32 5 £600 +84.62% 24
South East +32 4 - - 14
Midlands +19 4 £400 +14.29% 4
East Midlands +16 4 £400 - 2
Scotland - 2 £417 -
North West +10 1 - - 8
North of England +6 1 - - 16

Symfony
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud9 IDE
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Internet
1 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) MySQL
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
2 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Redis
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
1 3 (11.54%) PHPUnit
1 3 (11.54%) Subversion
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (84.62%) Developer
2 16 (61.54%) PHP Developer
3 9 (34.62%) Software Developer
3 9 (34.62%) Symfony Developer
4 8 (30.77%) PHP Symfony Developer
5 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (15.38%) React Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Voice Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Senior
8 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) React
2 7 (26.92%) Laravel
3 6 (23.08%) REST
4 3 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 3 (11.54%) Phalcon
4 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (11.54%) RESTful
4 3 (11.54%) Vue
4 3 (11.54%) Web Services
5 2 (7.69%) Node.js
5 2 (7.69%) Yii
6 1 (3.85%) CSS
6 1 (3.85%) Doctrine
6 1 (3.85%) HTML
6 1 (3.85%) Loki
6 1 (3.85%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Fintech
2 6 (23.08%) Front End Development
3 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (19.23%) OO
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Agile
5 3 (11.54%) API Development
5 3 (11.54%) Code Quality
5 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
5 3 (11.54%) Microservices
5 3 (11.54%) MVC
5 3 (11.54%) OO PHP
5 3 (11.54%) OWASP
5 3 (11.54%) Scrum
5 3 (11.54%) SDLC
5 3 (11.54%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) PHP
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Zend
2 2 (7.69%) BT
2 2 (7.69%) Citrix
2 2 (7.69%) SAP