PhD Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 415 352 415
Rank change year-on-year -63 +63 -27
Permanent jobs citing PhD 395 501 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.89% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.98% 2.35% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 239 111 169
10th Percentile £34,750 £36,250 £36,523
25th Percentile £44,875 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £79,750
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,915 21,308 23,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 37.69% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,282 7,936 10,537
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland -49 73 £70,000 -30.00% 11
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
Northern Ireland - 16 - - 3
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
Wales -34 2 £100,000 +100.00% 9
PhD
UK

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.51%) SAS
3 1 (0.25%) Apache
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.25%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.52%) Simulink
2 6 (1.52%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (8.10%) Figma
1 32 (8.10%) SurveyMonkey
2 25 (6.33%) AWS
3 21 (5.32%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (3.80%) Azure
5 10 (2.53%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.01%) SaaS
7 2 (0.51%) GCP
7 2 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.25%) GitHub
8 1 (0.25%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.05%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.78%) HTTP
2 11 (2.78%) MQTT
3 3 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (0.76%) Wireless
4 2 (0.51%) Internet
4 2 (0.51%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.78%) NoSQL
2 10 (2.53%) Power BI
2 10 (2.53%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.28%) Tableau
4 7 (1.77%) Big Data
5 3 (0.76%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.51%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.25%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.25%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Redis
7 1 (0.25%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 21 (5.32%) Git
2 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.01%) IntelliJ
3 4 (1.01%) JIRA
3 4 (1.01%) JUnit
3 4 (1.01%) Mockito
4 3 (0.76%) CMake
4 3 (0.76%) GitLab
4 3 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (0.76%) TestRail
5 2 (0.51%) GDB
5 2 (0.51%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
General
1 104 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
2 70 (17.72%) Finance
3 61 (15.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (14.94%) Marketing
5 54 (13.67%) Law
6 32 (8.10%) Social Science
7 28 (7.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 22 (5.57%) Electronics
9 12 (3.04%) Legal
10 11 (2.78%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.03%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.27%) Games
14 4 (1.01%) Aeronautics
14 4 (1.01%) Automotive
15 3 (0.76%) Banking
15 3 (0.76%) Public Sector
16 2 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (21.52%) Senior
2 81 (20.51%) Software Engineer
3 49 (12.41%) Data Scientist
4 44 (11.14%) Developer
4 44 (11.14%) Lead
5 32 (8.10%) Senior Data Scientist
6 28 (7.09%) Graduate
7 24 (6.08%) Architect
8 21 (5.32%) Software Developer
9 20 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (3.54%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.29%) User Experience Researcher
12 12 (3.04%) Physicist
13 11 (2.78%) Business Manager
13 11 (2.78%) Junior
13 11 (2.78%) Lead Data Scientist
13 11 (2.78%) Software Architect
14 10 (2.53%) Business Development Manager
14 10 (2.53%) Development Manager
14 10 (2.53%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (6.33%) TensorFlow
2 23 (5.82%) PyTorch
3 20 (5.06%) OpenMP
4 16 (4.05%) Web Services
5 14 (3.54%) AngularJS
5 14 (3.54%) OpenACC
5 14 (3.54%) RESTful
6 12 (3.04%) Node.js
6 12 (3.04%) NumPy
7 11 (2.78%) Kafka
7 11 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (2.78%) REST
8 10 (2.53%) OpenCV
8 10 (2.53%) scikit-learn
9 8 (2.03%) .NET
10 7 (1.77%) OpenCL
11 6 (1.52%) Pandas
12 5 (1.27%) FFmpeg
12 5 (1.27%) HTML
12 5 (1.27%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 164 (41.52%) Algorithms
2 31 (7.85%) CUDA
3 29 (7.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (6.84%) Market Risk
5 24 (6.08%) Data Structures
6 20 (5.06%) FPGA
7 19 (4.81%) Life Science
8 16 (4.05%) VHDL
9 13 (3.29%) Embedded Systems
10 12 (3.04%) Analogue Electronics
10 12 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (3.04%) IoT
11 11 (2.78%) Product Ownership
12 10 (2.53%) Biopharmaceutical
13 9 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (2.28%) Taxonomies
14 7 (1.77%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (1.52%) Client/Server
15 6 (1.52%) Robotics
16 5 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 73 (18.48%) Linux
2 42 (10.63%) Unix
3 5 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (45.06%) Computer Science
2 152 (38.48%) Mathematics
3 121 (30.63%) Physics
4 109 (27.59%) Software Engineering
5 105 (26.58%) Machine Learning
6 104 (26.33%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (21.27%) Artificial Intelligence
8 61 (15.44%) Data Science
9 59 (14.94%) Parallel Programming
10 46 (11.65%) Psychology
11 45 (11.39%) Anthropology
11 45 (11.39%) Cognitive Science
11 45 (11.39%) Fintech
11 45 (11.39%) Product Management
11 45 (11.39%) User Experience
11 45 (11.39%) User Research
11 45 (11.39%) UX Research
12 44 (11.14%) Analytics
12 44 (11.14%) Data Analysis
13 43 (10.89%) Qualitative Research
Programming Languages
1 194 (49.11%) Python
2 99 (25.06%) C
3 89 (22.53%) C++
4 71 (17.97%) Fortran
5 62 (15.70%) R
6 58 (14.68%) Java
7 42 (10.63%) SQL
8 33 (8.35%) C#
9 32 (8.10%) Bash
10 22 (5.57%) MATLAB
11 13 (3.29%) JavaScript
12 12 (3.04%) Rust
13 6 (1.52%) Haskell
13 6 (1.52%) Perl
14 5 (1.27%) Go
15 4 (1.01%) AWK
15 4 (1.01%) sed
15 4 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.01%) VB
16 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 384 (97.22%) Degree
2 259 (65.57%) Master's Degree
3 67 (16.96%) Security Cleared
4 42 (10.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.57%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.81%) MBA
7 14 (3.54%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.53%) CFA
8 10 (2.53%) CIMA
9 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.25%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.33%) QA
2 11 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.53%) GDPR
4 9 (2.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.51%) ECSS
5 2 (0.51%) GLP
5 2 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 20 (5.06%) Docker
2 6 (1.52%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (4.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.01%) Ansible
2 4 (1.01%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (8.10%) Qualtrics
2 29 (7.34%) Microsoft
3 13 (3.29%) Google
4 8 (2.03%) ANSYS
5 6 (1.52%) NVIDIA
5 6 (1.52%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.01%) Databricks
7 1 (0.25%) Interwoven
7 1 (0.25%) Keysight
7 1 (0.25%) Qubit
7 1 (0.25%) Thales
7 1 (0.25%) YouTube