PhD Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 423 461
Rank change year-on-year +59 +38 -43
Contract jobs citing PhD 34 24 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.32% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 28
10th Percentile - - £291
25th Percentile £550 £228 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £565 £557
Median % change year-on-year +10.72% +1.30% +10.35%
75th Percentile £794 £579 £711
90th Percentile £800 £622 £745
UK median daily rate £600 £775 £590
% change year-on-year -22.58% +31.36% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.12 - -
Median hourly rate £61.25 - £19.91
75th Percentile £65.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £39.68 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +98.00%

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 contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,489 7,477 8,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.92% 32.63% 26.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,361 4,959 5,284
10th Percentile £275 £300 £260
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £719 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 573 526
10th Percentile £13.65 £13.51 £13.33
25th Percentile £17.66 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +14.01%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.13
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PhD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PhD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
East of England +26 19 £800 - 59
South East +6 9 £625 +165.96% 78
North West - 2 £550 - 26
North of England - 2 £550 - 31
Wales - 2 - - 9
Midlands +25 1 £550 -18.52% 25
West Midlands +15 1 £550 -18.52% 15
South West +2 1 £750 +29.53% 26
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 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.88%) AWS
1 2 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Wireless
2 2 (5.88%) RS-485
2 2 (5.88%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.94%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Subversion
3 3 (8.82%) GCC
4 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 4 (11.76%) Aerospace
2 4 (11.76%) Electronics
2 4 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Marketing
3 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (8.82%) Publishing
4 2 (5.88%) Back Office
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Architect
2 11 (32.35%) Software Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) Software Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 4 (11.76%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Compiler Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Computer Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Data Governance Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Data Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Development Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.88%) IT Architect
7 2 (5.88%) SAP Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Development Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Software Development Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) DirectX
1 12 (35.29%) OpenGL
1 12 (35.29%) OpenGL ES
1 12 (35.29%) Vulkan
2 3 (8.82%) LLVM
2 3 (8.82%) PyTorch
3 2 (5.88%) NumPy
3 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Dask
4 1 (2.94%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Lucene
4 1 (2.94%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 1 (2.94%) Pandas
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.94%) Silverlight
4 1 (2.94%) WCF
4 1 (2.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) 3D Graphics
1 10 (29.41%) Ray Tracing
2 8 (23.53%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.76%) Device Driver
4 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.88%) FPGA
5 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.88%) Photography
6 1 (2.94%) ASIC
6 1 (2.94%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.94%) Life Science
6 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.94%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.94%) Verilog
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
3 2 (5.88%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 15 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (41.18%) Software Engineering
4 10 (29.41%) Software Architecture
5 7 (20.59%) Open Source
6 6 (17.65%) Validation
7 5 (14.71%) Data Science
7 5 (14.71%) Mathematics
7 5 (14.71%) Physics
8 4 (11.76%) Defect Tracking
8 4 (11.76%) Signal Processing
8 4 (11.76%) Software Optimisation
8 4 (11.76%) Statistics
9 3 (8.82%) Agile
9 3 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (8.82%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (8.82%) DevOps
9 3 (8.82%) Economics
9 3 (8.82%) Image Processing
9 3 (8.82%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) C++
2 16 (47.06%) C
3 14 (41.18%) Python
4 4 (11.76%) Assembly Language
4 4 (11.76%) C#
4 4 (11.76%) MATLAB
4 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.82%) Java
5 3 (8.82%) R
6 2 (5.88%) Rust
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (2.94%) Scala
7 1 (2.94%) SQL
7 1 (2.94%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (2.94%) Tcl
7 1 (2.94%) XAML
Qualifications
1 30 (88.24%) Degree
2 28 (82.35%) Master's Degree
3 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) JTAG
2 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Embedded Firmware
1 5 (14.71%) Firmware
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) SAP
2 2 (5.88%) VMware
3 1 (2.94%) Siemens