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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 641 414
Rank change year-on-year -10 -227 +104
Permanent jobs citing Symfony 61 245 777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.25% 0.77%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.64% 1.17% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 53 232 249
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £67,000 £76,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -13.64% +2.80%

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 9,497 21,024 30,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 21.23% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,223 15,725 18,834
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £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 14 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 14 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 +46 52 £43,750 -7.89% 62
England -20 45 £47,500 -5.00% 79
Work from Home +8 43 £42,500 -19.05% 59
Wales +40 14 £32,500 -35.00% 5
North of England +13 13 £47,500 +5.56% 18
Midlands +48 11 £40,000 -5.88% 2
North West -11 8 £46,250 -7.50% 9
South West +89 6 £50,000 +11.11% 12
London +85 6 £62,500 -10.71% 29
East Midlands +30 6 £40,000 +10.34% 2
South East +57 5 £41,250 -21.43% 17
Yorkshire +55 5 £47,500 +9.83% 7
West Midlands +45 5 £45,000 -2.70%
East of England +27 3 £77,500 +40.91% 9

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 9 (14.75%) CMS
2 2 (3.28%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Drupal
3 1 (1.64%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) AWS
2 10 (16.39%) Azure
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (14.75%) Serverless
4 8 (13.11%) npm
5 7 (11.48%) GCP
5 7 (11.48%) SaaS
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon S3
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.28%) GitHub
9 1 (1.64%) Datadog
9 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Internet
1 4 (6.56%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (55.74%) MySQL
2 11 (18.03%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (18.03%) Relational Database
3 7 (11.48%) RDBMS
4 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.28%) Big Data
6 2 (3.28%) OLTP
6 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.64%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (34.43%) Git
2 9 (14.75%) Grunt
2 9 (14.75%) webpack
3 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.64%) git-flow
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) PHPUnit
General
1 21 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Law
3 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Games
3 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Finance
4 2 (3.28%) Marketing
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (86.89%) Developer
2 42 (68.85%) PHP Developer
3 15 (24.59%) Senior
4 13 (21.31%) Senior Developer
5 12 (19.67%) PHP Symfony Developer
5 12 (19.67%) Symfony Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Senior PHP Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Architect
8 5 (8.20%) PHP Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Senior Web Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Software Architect
9 4 (6.56%) Software Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Web Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Full-Stack Web Developer
11 2 (3.28%) Lead
12 1 (1.64%) AWS Architect
12 1 (1.64%) Senior Drupal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (50.82%) HTML
2 28 (45.90%) Laravel
3 25 (40.98%) React
4 24 (39.34%) CSS
5 17 (27.87%) Vue
6 11 (18.03%) Playwright
7 10 (16.39%) Sass
8 8 (13.11%) CakePHP
8 8 (13.11%) Doctrine
8 8 (13.11%) Pyjs
8 8 (13.11%) RESTful
9 6 (9.84%) REST
10 5 (8.20%) AngularJS
10 5 (8.20%) Node.js
11 4 (6.56%) .NET
12 3 (4.92%) CodeIgniter
12 3 (4.92%) NestJS
12 3 (4.92%) Next.js
12 3 (4.92%) Tailwind CSS
13 2 (3.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Legacy Code
2 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) IoT
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.28%) Online Games
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) Unix
2 4 (6.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Agile
2 24 (39.34%) OO
3 16 (26.23%) OOP
4 15 (24.59%) Test Automation
5 14 (22.95%) Front End Development
6 12 (19.67%) Collaborative Working
6 12 (19.67%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (18.03%) OO PHP
8 10 (16.39%) CRM
8 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.75%) B2B
9 9 (14.75%) Web Development
10 8 (13.11%) Microservices
11 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
11 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning
12 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
13 5 (8.20%) Artificial Intelligence
13 5 (8.20%) Collaborative Culture
13 5 (8.20%) Mentoring
13 5 (8.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (98.36%) PHP
2 40 (65.57%) JavaScript
3 10 (16.39%) SQL
4 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.28%) Go
6 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.64%) Python
6 1 (1.64%) SOQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) GMP
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 17 (27.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.28%) Google
1 2 (3.28%) Sage
1 2 (3.28%) SAP
1 2 (3.28%) Zend
2 1 (1.64%) Salesforce