PhD Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 475 522 657
Rank change year-on-year +47 +135 -129
Contract jobs citing PhD 75 114 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 0.89% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 79 66
10th Percentile £375 £235 £400
25th Percentile £510 £579 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £595
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.05% -0.83%
75th Percentile £763 £950 £738
90th Percentile £845 £1,000 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £775 £600
% change year-on-year -22.58% +29.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 11
10th Percentile £21.14 - £18.50
25th Percentile £28.75 - £32.88
Median hourly rate £61.25 - £50.50
75th Percentile £65.00 - £54.50
90th Percentile £66.38 - £58.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £50.50
% change year-on-year - - +102.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

PhD falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,463 12,852 15,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.32% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 8,593 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 655 691
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for PhD in England

PhD
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PhD in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PhD in England

PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for PhD in England

PhD
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PhD in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PhD in England

PhD
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +38 38 £575 -36.11% 178
East of England +25 21 £800 - 54
South East +12 9 £625 +165.96% 61
North West - 2 £550 - 23
North of England - 2 £550 - 29
West Midlands +18 1 £550 -18.52% 14
Midlands +17 1 £550 -18.52% 25
South West -12 1 £750 +29.53% 33
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 3 (4.00%) SAS
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.33%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.33%) Endur
2 1 (1.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.33%) AWS
2 6 (8.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (2.67%) dbt
4 2 (2.67%) GCP
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.33%) IBM Watson
5 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Wireless
2 3 (4.00%) RS-485
3 2 (2.67%) SAN
4 1 (1.33%) DNS
4 1 (1.33%) HTTP
4 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.67%) Tableau
3 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.33%) Looker
3 1 (1.33%) Metadata
3 1 (1.33%) Parquet
3 1 (1.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) JIRA
2 4 (5.33%) Subversion
3 3 (4.00%) GCC
4 1 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (33.33%) Finance
2 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.33%) Marketing
5 8 (10.67%) Front Office
6 7 (9.33%) Telecoms
7 6 (8.00%) Banking
7 6 (8.00%) Electronics
8 5 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (5.33%) Advertising
9 4 (5.33%) Aerospace
10 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 3 (4.00%) Publishing
10 3 (4.00%) Retail
11 2 (2.67%) Back Office
11 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 17 (22.67%) Architect
2 12 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 10 (13.33%) Senior
3 10 (13.33%) Software Architect
4 9 (12.00%) Data Scientist
4 9 (12.00%) Developer
5 6 (8.00%) Consultant
5 6 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Embedded Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.00%) Compiler Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Quantitative Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Risk Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) DirectX
1 12 (16.00%) OpenGL
1 12 (16.00%) OpenGL ES
1 12 (16.00%) Vulkan
2 8 (10.67%) PyTorch
3 7 (9.33%) TensorFlow
4 4 (5.33%) scikit-learn
5 3 (4.00%) LLVM
5 3 (4.00%) NumPy
6 2 (2.67%) Pandas
7 1 (1.33%) .NET
7 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.33%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.33%) JSON
7 1 (1.33%) Keras
7 1 (1.33%) Lucene
7 1 (1.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (1.33%) PySpark
7 1 (1.33%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Algorithms
2 10 (13.33%) 3D Graphics
2 10 (13.33%) Ray Tracing
3 4 (5.33%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.33%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.00%) Derivative
4 3 (4.00%) FPGA
5 2 (2.67%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.67%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) Photography
5 2 (2.67%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.67%) Social Media
5 2 (2.67%) Tandem
5 2 (2.67%) Verilog
5 2 (2.67%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.67%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Android
2 3 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (57.33%) Computer Science
2 26 (34.67%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (29.33%) Machine Learning
4 20 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 19 (25.33%) Statistics
6 18 (24.00%) Software Engineering
7 15 (20.00%) Mathematics
8 14 (18.67%) Data Science
9 13 (17.33%) Economics
10 12 (16.00%) Agile
10 12 (16.00%) Analytics
10 12 (16.00%) Data Governance
10 12 (16.00%) Decision-Making
11 11 (14.67%) Validation
12 10 (13.33%) Software Architecture
13 9 (12.00%) Collaborative Culture
13 9 (12.00%) Data Analysis
13 9 (12.00%) Data Lineage
13 9 (12.00%) Open Source
14 8 (10.67%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 39 (52.00%) Python
2 24 (32.00%) C++
3 19 (25.33%) SQL
4 18 (24.00%) C
5 11 (14.67%) Java
6 10 (13.33%) R
7 8 (10.67%) C#
8 6 (8.00%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.33%) Assembly Language
9 4 (5.33%) MATLAB
10 3 (4.00%) Rust
11 2 (2.67%) Bash
11 2 (2.67%) Scala
11 2 (2.67%) SystemVerilog
11 2 (2.67%) Tcl
12 1 (1.33%) Julia
12 1 (1.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 70 (93.33%) Degree
2 63 (84.00%) Master's Degree
3 13 (17.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.33%) Numerate Degree
4 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) MBA
5 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) PMP
6 1 (1.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) JTAG
2 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.33%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (5.33%) MiFID
3 3 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 6 (8.00%) Firmware
2 2 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) Ansible
1 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.67%) SAP
2 2 (2.67%) Adobe
2 2 (2.67%) CA
2 2 (2.67%) Databricks
2 2 (2.67%) Siemens
2 2 (2.67%) VMware
3 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.33%) Brandwatch
3 1 (1.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) IBM
3 1 (1.33%) OpenLink