PhD Jobs in England

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 451 427 436
Rank change year-on-year -24 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing PhD 467 583 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.69% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.88% 2.06% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 316 236 405
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,260 £40,853
25th Percentile £49,375 £54,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £135,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

PhD is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,881 28,320 37,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.35% 33.66% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15,751 12,947 16,894
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in England.

Salary trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in England

PhD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -11 175 £58,000 -3.33% 75
London +96 160 £90,000 +9.09% 201
East of England -57 61 £70,000 -6.67% 57
North of England +27 35 £80,000 -8.57% 31
North West +14 22 £80,000 -8.57% 26
South West -54 17 £77,500 +69.40% 25
Midlands -6 16 £55,000 +22.22% 30
West Midlands -6 12 £55,000 - 22
Yorkshire +34 8 £37,500 - 4
North East - 5 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands -19 4 £32,500 -27.78% 8
PhD
UK

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (1.71%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.64%) Apache
3 3 (0.64%) SAS
4 1 (0.21%) Confluence
4 1 (0.21%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.28%) Simulink
2 6 (1.28%) Stateflow
3 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Blender
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.21%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 29 (6.21%) AWS
2 21 (4.50%) Azure
3 16 (3.43%) GCP
4 12 (2.57%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.07%) GitHub
6 4 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.86%) Dagster
6 4 (0.86%) SaaS
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon S3
7 2 (0.43%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (0.43%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.43%) OCI
7 2 (0.43%) Serverless
7 2 (0.43%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.43%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.21%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.64%) Internet
1 3 (0.64%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (0.64%) Wireless
2 2 (0.43%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.78%) Big Data
1 13 (2.78%) Tableau
2 12 (2.57%) Power BI
3 10 (2.14%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.50%) Hadoop
5 6 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.86%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.64%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.43%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.43%) Text Mining
10 1 (0.21%) Bigtable
10 1 (0.21%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.21%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 31 (6.64%) Git
2 6 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.28%) JUnit
3 5 (1.07%) GitLab
3 5 (1.07%) JIRA
3 5 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.86%) IntelliJ
4 4 (0.86%) Mockito
4 4 (0.86%) Snakemake
5 3 (0.64%) CMake
5 3 (0.64%) TestRail
6 2 (0.43%) GDB
6 2 (0.43%) MLflow
6 2 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.43%) TensorBoard
7 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 140 (29.98%) Social Skills
2 99 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (13.49%) Finance
4 53 (11.35%) Pharmaceutical
5 25 (5.35%) Law
6 23 (4.93%) Electronics
6 23 (4.93%) Marketing
7 19 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.00%) Legal
9 11 (2.36%) Health Technology
10 9 (1.93%) Retail
11 8 (1.71%) Humanities
11 8 (1.71%) Social Science
12 7 (1.50%) Banking
13 6 (1.28%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.28%) Games
13 6 (1.28%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.07%) Front Office
15 4 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 106 (22.70%) Senior
2 74 (15.85%) Software Engineer
3 72 (15.42%) Data Scientist
4 62 (13.28%) Developer
5 48 (10.28%) Senior Data Scientist
6 35 (7.49%) Analyst
7 34 (7.28%) Graduate
8 22 (4.71%) Software Developer
9 21 (4.50%) Lead
10 18 (3.85%) Development Manager
11 16 (3.43%) Quantitative Developer
11 16 (3.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (3.21%) Senior Developer
13 14 (3.00%) Junior
13 14 (3.00%) Lead Data Scientist
14 12 (2.57%) Physicist
15 11 (2.36%) Business Manager
15 11 (2.36%) Java Developer
15 11 (2.36%) Qualitative Analyst
15 11 (2.36%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (10.06%) PyTorch
2 40 (8.57%) TensorFlow
3 22 (4.71%) OpenMP
4 15 (3.21%) scikit-learn
5 14 (3.00%) .NET
5 14 (3.00%) OpenACC
6 12 (2.57%) NumPy
7 9 (1.93%) Kafka
8 7 (1.50%) OpenCL
8 7 (1.50%) Pandas
9 6 (1.28%) REST
9 6 (1.28%) Vulkan
10 5 (1.07%) HTML
10 5 (1.07%) HTML5
10 5 (1.07%) Keras
11 4 (0.86%) OpenGL
11 4 (0.86%) QML
11 4 (0.86%) Qt
11 4 (0.86%) React
11 4 (0.86%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 188 (40.26%) Algorithms
2 58 (12.42%) Life Science
3 34 (7.28%) CUDA
4 29 (6.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 28 (6.00%) Data Structures
6 22 (4.71%) FPGA
7 18 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.85%) VHDL
8 16 (3.43%) Client/Server
9 15 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
11 12 (2.57%) Analogue Electronics
11 12 (2.57%) Biopharmaceutical
12 11 (2.36%) Hedge funds
13 9 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.93%) Taxonomies
14 7 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (1.28%) Robotics
16 5 (1.07%) Blog
17 4 (0.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 71 (15.20%) Linux
2 42 (8.99%) Unix
3 2 (0.43%) Android
3 2 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (48.39%) Computer Science
2 211 (45.18%) Mathematics
3 151 (32.33%) Physics
4 147 (31.48%) Machine Learning
5 135 (28.91%) Data Science
6 122 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
7 120 (25.70%) Software Engineering
8 99 (21.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 84 (17.99%) Statistics
10 62 (13.28%) Analytics
11 55 (11.78%) Parallel Programming
12 53 (11.35%) Decision-Making
13 52 (11.13%) Agile
14 44 (9.42%) Biotechnology
15 38 (8.14%) Deep Learning
15 38 (8.14%) Open Source
16 37 (7.92%) Visualisation
17 36 (7.71%) Data Analysis
18 35 (7.49%) Data Visualisation
19 32 (6.85%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 265 (56.75%) Python
2 106 (22.70%) C++
3 101 (21.63%) C
4 72 (15.42%) SQL
5 71 (15.20%) Fortran
6 70 (14.99%) Java
7 56 (11.99%) R
8 54 (11.56%) C#
9 30 (6.42%) Bash
9 30 (6.42%) MATLAB
10 18 (3.85%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.28%) Perl
12 4 (0.86%) AWK
12 4 (0.86%) sed
12 4 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.86%) VB
13 3 (0.64%) C-shell
13 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.64%) Rust
14 2 (0.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 455 (97.43%) Degree
2 302 (64.67%) Master's Degree
3 64 (13.70%) Security Cleared
4 47 (10.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.93%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.07%) MBA
7 14 (3.00%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.14%) CFA
8 10 (2.14%) CIMA
9 6 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.43%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.43%) OSCE
11 2 (0.43%) OSCP
12 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.21%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.36%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.14%) QA
3 9 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (1.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.43%) ECSS
4 2 (0.43%) GLP
4 2 (0.43%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 21 (4.50%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) IAG
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.71%) Terraform
3 7 (1.50%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.86%) Ansible
4 4 (0.86%) Argo
5 2 (0.43%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 35 (7.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.14%) OpenAI
3 7 (1.50%) Google
4 6 (1.28%) NVIDIA
5 4 (0.86%) ANSYS
5 4 (0.86%) Databricks
6 2 (0.43%) Oracle
6 2 (0.43%) SAP
7 1 (0.21%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.21%) Interwoven
7 1 (0.21%) Qubit
7 1 (0.21%) Samsung
7 1 (0.21%) YouTube