Symfony
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Symfony skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Symfony over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 654 726
Rank change year-on-year +103 +72 -129
Contract jobs citing Symfony 40 64 128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 0.47% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 108
10th Percentile - £302 £325
25th Percentile £313 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £456 £525
90th Percentile - £485 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £380 £455
% change year-on-year +1.97% -16.48% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Symfony is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

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 4 May 2024.

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 11 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 4 May 2024. 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
England +95 37 £350 -12.50% 66
Work from Home +114 30 £450 +13.92% 49
London +93 19 £325 -23.53% 15
UK excluding London +62 18 £388 +1.97% 56
South East +25 9 £450 +12.50% 8
North of England +24 6 £338 -3.57% 19
Yorkshire - 5 £350 - 9
Midlands +28 3 £350 -24.32% 8
East Midlands +23 2 - - 3
West Midlands +24 1 £350 -15.15% 5
North West +12 1 £325 -7.14% 8

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) Jadu
1 4 (10.00%) WordPress
2 2 (5.00%) Apache
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) CMS
3 1 (2.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) AWS
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (7.50%) GitHub
3 2 (5.00%) AWS IoT
3 2 (5.00%) Azure
3 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Datadog
4 1 (2.50%) Figma
4 1 (2.50%) Sentry
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) MySQL
2 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) PHPUnit
2 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Storybook
General
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Retail
3 3 (7.50%) Banking
3 3 (7.50%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (7.50%) Investment Banking
3 3 (7.50%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (82.50%) Developer
2 15 (37.50%) PHP Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Symfony Developer
3 9 (22.50%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Developer
5 4 (10.00%) PHP Symfony Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) React Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) WordPress Developer
8 1 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) Laravel
2 7 (17.50%) Kafka
2 7 (17.50%) React
3 6 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (10.00%) Node.js
4 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (10.00%) Spring
5 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.50%) Twig
5 3 (7.50%) web3js
5 3 (7.50%) Yii
6 2 (5.00%) .NET
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.00%) LAMP
6 2 (5.00%) Nuxt
6 2 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (5.00%) SOAP
6 2 (5.00%) Vue
7 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Blockchain
2 3 (7.50%) Web3
3 2 (5.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Android
2 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven
1 7 (17.50%) Microservices
2 6 (15.00%) Full Stack Development
2 6 (15.00%) TDD
2 6 (15.00%) Workflow
3 5 (12.50%) OOP
3 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
4 4 (10.00%) DevOps
4 4 (10.00%) SOLID
5 3 (7.50%) Agile
5 3 (7.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (7.50%) Customer Experience
5 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
5 3 (7.50%) OO
5 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (7.50%) Unit Testing
5 3 (7.50%) Wealth Management
6 2 (5.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 33 (82.50%) PHP
2 11 (27.50%) JavaScript
3 8 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (15.00%) SQL
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.50%) Zend