Physics Contracts in London

Physics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Physics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Physics 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 356 396 487
Rank change year-on-year +40 +91 -56
Contract jobs citing Physics 44 86 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.38% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 59 64
10th Percentile £398 £473 £508
25th Percentile £516 £564 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £825 £700 £850
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £931 £856 £950
90th Percentile £950 £1,188 £954
England median daily rate £775 £700 £725
% change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% +12.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £32.50
25th Percentile £66.25 - £33.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £68.75 - £43.91
90th Percentile - - £47.19
England median hourly rate £59.50 £55.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +8.18% +51.72% +2.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Physics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Physics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Physics in London

Physics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Physics in London.

Daily rate trend for Physics in London

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Physics in London

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Physics in London.

Hourly rate trend for Physics in London

Physics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the London 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
Central London +19 5 £750 -9.09% 9
South London - 1 £800 - 5
Physics
England

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (9.09%) Jupyter
1 4 (9.09%) SAS
2 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.55%) Simulink
3 1 (2.27%) Blender
3 1 (2.27%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.27%) Azure
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.27%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Git
2 7 (15.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (52.27%) Finance
2 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
3 15 (34.09%) Banking
4 14 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (25.00%) Investment Banking
6 10 (22.73%) Front Office
7 7 (15.91%) Marketing
8 5 (11.36%) Games
9 3 (6.82%) Advertising
9 3 (6.82%) Legal
10 2 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (4.55%) Retail
10 2 (4.55%) Retail Finance
11 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Qualitative Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Quantitative Analyst
4 8 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
5 6 (13.64%) Credit Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Data Scientist
6 5 (11.36%) Senior
7 4 (9.09%) React Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (6.82%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.82%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (6.82%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
8 3 (6.82%) C# GUI Developer
8 3 (6.82%) C# WPF Developer
8 3 (6.82%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 3 (6.82%) GUI Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Product Manager
8 3 (6.82%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) React
2 4 (9.09%) CSS
2 4 (9.09%) HTML
2 4 (9.09%) Matplotlib
2 4 (9.09%) Pandas
2 4 (9.09%) Plotly
2 4 (9.09%) pytest
2 4 (9.09%) PyTorch
2 4 (9.09%) scikit-learn
2 4 (9.09%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 3 (6.82%) .NET
3 3 (6.82%) .NET Framework
3 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.82%) WPF
4 2 (4.55%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (2.27%) Flask
5 1 (2.27%) Kafka
5 1 (2.27%) NumPy
5 1 (2.27%) SciPy
5 1 (2.27%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Fixed Income
2 14 (31.82%) Derivative
3 11 (25.00%) Algorithms
4 10 (22.73%) Hedge funds
5 9 (20.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (15.91%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (15.91%) Equities
7 6 (13.64%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (11.36%) Data Structures
9 4 (9.09%) Credit Risk
10 3 (6.82%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (6.82%) Management Information System
11 2 (4.55%) Animation
11 2 (4.55%) Mobile Games
12 1 (2.27%) 3D Graphics
12 1 (2.27%) Augmented Reality
12 1 (2.27%) Blog
12 1 (2.27%) Client/Server
12 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
12 1 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
1 4 (9.09%) Unix
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (84.09%) Mathematics
2 22 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 16 (36.36%) Quantitative Finance
4 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (31.82%) Statistics
5 12 (27.27%) Analytics
6 10 (22.73%) Data Science
7 9 (20.45%) Machine Learning
7 9 (20.45%) Model Validation
8 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.91%) Data Analysis
8 7 (15.91%) Numerical Analysis
8 7 (15.91%) OOP
9 6 (13.64%) Analytical Modelling
10 5 (11.36%) Agile
10 5 (11.36%) Design Patterns
11 4 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (9.09%) OO
11 4 (9.09%) Predictive Modelling
11 4 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (72.73%) Python
2 18 (40.91%) C++
3 10 (22.73%) C#
4 8 (18.18%) Java
4 8 (18.18%) SQL
5 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 4 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (9.09%) Perl
6 4 (9.09%) R
6 4 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 4 (9.09%) VBA
7 2 (4.55%) MATLAB
8 1 (2.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 34 (77.27%) Degree
2 21 (47.73%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (11.36%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.82%) PhD
6 2 (4.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Databricks
2 2 (4.55%) CA