Symfony
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Symfony skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries 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 633 638 407
Rank change year-on-year +5 -231 +107
Permanent jobs citing Symfony 66 243 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.25% 0.76%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% 1.15% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 57 233 258
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £66,000 £76,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +7.32%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,503 21,058 31,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.22% 21.37% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,429 15,741 19,284
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,150
25th Percentile £50,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,600 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Symfony.

Salary trend for Symfony in the UK

Symfony
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Symfony in the UK

Symfony
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +74 56 £47,500 - 49
England +33 48 £47,500 -5.00% 65
Work from Home +61 47 £45,000 -14.29% 54
Wales +36 16 £32,500 -35.00% 3
North of England +36 14 £47,500 +5.56% 16
Midlands +56 11 £41,250 -2.94% 4
North West +10 8 £46,250 -7.50% 8
South West +98 7 £56,250 +25.00% 7
London +79 7 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Yorkshire +56 6 £47,500 +9.83% 7
West Midlands +44 6 £45,000 -2.70% 2
South East +57 5 £41,250 -21.43% 13
East Midlands +46 5 £40,000 +10.34% 2
East of England +30 3 £77,500 +40.91% 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 10 (15.15%) CMS
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (1.52%) Confluence
3 1 (1.52%) Drupal
3 1 (1.52%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (42.42%) AWS
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 10 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (15.15%) Serverless
4 9 (13.64%) npm
5 8 (12.12%) GCP
5 8 (12.12%) SaaS
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
7 6 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.03%) GitHub
9 1 (1.52%) Datadog
9 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Internet
1 4 (6.06%) Network Security
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (60.61%) MySQL
2 12 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 11 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (12.12%) RDBMS
5 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.55%) Big Data
8 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (3.03%) OLTP
8 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.52%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (34.85%) Git
2 10 (15.15%) Grunt
2 10 (15.15%) webpack
3 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.52%) git-flow
3 1 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) PHPUnit
General
1 22 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Law
3 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (6.06%) Games
3 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Finance
4 2 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (1.52%) Retail
5 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (83.33%) Developer
2 43 (65.15%) PHP Developer
3 17 (25.76%) Senior
4 15 (22.73%) Senior Developer
5 11 (16.67%) PHP Symfony Developer
5 11 (16.67%) Symfony Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Senior PHP Developer
7 7 (10.61%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Architect
8 5 (7.58%) PHP Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Senior Web Developer
8 5 (7.58%) Web Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Full-Stack Web Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Software Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Lead
10 3 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 2 (3.03%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (54.55%) HTML
2 32 (48.48%) Laravel
3 28 (42.42%) CSS
3 28 (42.42%) React
4 21 (31.82%) Vue
5 11 (16.67%) Sass
6 10 (15.15%) Playwright
7 9 (13.64%) CakePHP
7 9 (13.64%) Doctrine
7 9 (13.64%) Pyjs
8 8 (12.12%) RESTful
9 7 (10.61%) REST
10 6 (9.09%) Node.js
11 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
12 4 (6.06%) .NET
12 4 (6.06%) NestJS
12 4 (6.06%) Next.js
13 3 (4.55%) CodeIgniter
13 3 (4.55%) LAMP
13 3 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Legacy Code
2 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.06%) IoT
3 3 (4.55%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.03%) Online Games
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Unix
2 4 (6.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (48.48%) Agile
2 25 (37.88%) OO
3 17 (25.76%) OOP
4 15 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (21.21%) Test Automation
6 13 (19.70%) Collaborative Working
6 13 (19.70%) Front End Development
6 13 (19.70%) OO PHP
7 11 (16.67%) CRM
8 10 (15.15%) B2B
8 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (15.15%) Web Development
9 9 (13.64%) Microservices
10 8 (12.12%) Machine Learning
11 7 (10.61%) CI/CD
11 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
12 6 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
12 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 6 (9.09%) MVC
13 5 (7.58%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 65 (98.48%) PHP
2 44 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (13.64%) SQL
3 9 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (1.52%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.52%) Python
5 1 (1.52%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) GMP
2 1 (1.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 18 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.03%) Google
1 2 (3.03%) Sage
1 2 (3.03%) SAP
1 2 (3.03%) Zend
2 1 (1.52%) Salesforce