Physics Contracts

Physics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 557 673
Rank change year-on-year +33 +116 -49
Contract jobs citing Physics 63 132 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 72 94
10th Percentile £367 £278 £373
25th Percentile £475 £514 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £938 £825 £925
90th Percentile £970 £1,021 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £148 £450
% change year-on-year +272.88% -67.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 23 18
10th Percentile £20.12 £19.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.97 £19.74 £17.63
Median hourly rate £40.68 £52.50 £19.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.51% +166.29% -45.24%
75th Percentile £64.44 £65.00 £38.44
90th Percentile £68.38 - £45.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £53.75 £19.52
% change year-on-year +10.70% +175.36% -60.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Physics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,603 50,558 80,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.40% 89.70% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,483 35,017 56,266
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,521 1,671 1,882
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physics over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Physics in the UK

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Physics over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Physics in the UK

Physics
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +25 59 £800 +14.29% 390
London +47 37 £850 +21.43% 130
Work from Home +112 25 £800 +77.78% 105
UK excluding London +31 21 £550 +272.88% 275
South East +6 9 £355 +140.68% 117
East of England +2 7 - - 48
Wales +21 2 - - 9
North of England +27 1 £650 - 32
North West +10 1 £650 - 23
South West +5 1 £700 +55.56% 32
Midlands - 1 £550 - 34
West Midlands - 1 £550 - 20

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (12.70%) SAS
2 2 (3.17%) Jupyter
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Simulink
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.76%) SPSS
4 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.17%) Stateflow
5 1 (1.59%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.59%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.35%) AWS
2 2 (3.17%) Azure
2 2 (3.17%) GCP
2 2 (3.17%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Batch
3 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (4.76%) Tableau
2 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) Big Data
3 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Git
2 8 (12.70%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.17%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (3.17%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (1.59%) JIRA
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) Subversion
4 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (38.10%) Finance
2 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 18 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (25.40%) Banking
5 11 (17.46%) Front Office
5 11 (17.46%) Investment Banking
6 6 (9.52%) Aerospace
6 6 (9.52%) Marketing
7 4 (6.35%) Electronics
8 3 (4.76%) Advertising
8 3 (4.76%) Games
8 3 (4.76%) Legal
8 3 (4.76%) Military
8 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.76%) Retail
9 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.17%) Law
9 2 (3.17%) Multimedia
9 2 (3.17%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Analyst
2 14 (22.22%) Developer
3 11 (17.46%) Qualitative Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Quantitative Analyst
4 9 (14.29%) Data Scientist
5 8 (12.70%) Quantitative Developer
6 6 (9.52%) Credit Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) React Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Senior
8 3 (4.76%) C++ Developer
8 3 (4.76%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Product Manager
8 3 (4.76%) RF Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk Analyst
9 2 (3.17%) E-Commerce Manager
9 2 (3.17%) Python Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) CSS
1 5 (7.94%) HTML
2 4 (6.35%) D3.js
2 4 (6.35%) React
3 3 (4.76%) Pandas
3 3 (4.76%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.17%) Matplotlib
4 2 (3.17%) NumPy
4 2 (3.17%) Plotly
4 2 (3.17%) pytest
4 2 (3.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.59%) CSS3
5 1 (1.59%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.59%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.59%) HTML5
5 1 (1.59%) Kafka
5 1 (1.59%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (1.59%) OSGi
5 1 (1.59%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Algorithms
1 14 (22.22%) Derivative
2 11 (17.46%) Fixed Income
3 10 (15.87%) Hedge funds
4 9 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (12.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (11.11%) Equities
7 6 (9.52%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (6.35%) Credit Risk
8 4 (6.35%) Data Structures
9 3 (4.76%) Analogue Electronics
9 3 (4.76%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
10 2 (3.17%) Mobile Games
10 2 (3.17%) Social Media
11 1 (1.59%) 3D Graphics
11 1 (1.59%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 1 (1.59%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Unix
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Android
3 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (76.19%) Mathematics
2 31 (49.21%) Computer Science
3 25 (39.68%) Statistics
4 17 (26.98%) Quantitative Finance
5 15 (23.81%) Analytics
5 15 (23.81%) Data Science
6 13 (20.63%) Data Analysis
6 13 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.46%) Analytical Modelling
8 9 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 9 (14.29%) Model Validation
9 8 (12.70%) Agile
10 7 (11.11%) Numerical Analysis
10 7 (11.11%) Statistical Modelling
11 6 (9.52%) Open Source
11 6 (9.52%) Validation
12 5 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (7.94%) Data Management
12 5 (7.94%) Mathematical Modelling
12 5 (7.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (66.67%) Python
2 22 (34.92%) C++
3 14 (22.22%) R
4 12 (19.05%) MATLAB
5 10 (15.87%) SQL
6 8 (12.70%) C#
6 8 (12.70%) Java
6 8 (12.70%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.94%) Shell Script
8 4 (6.35%) C
8 4 (6.35%) Perl
8 4 (6.35%) VBA
9 3 (4.76%) Bash
9 3 (4.76%) Fortran
10 1 (1.59%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.59%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.59%) Scala
10 1 (1.59%) XAML
Qualifications
1 53 (84.13%) Degree
2 20 (31.75%) Numerate Degree
3 15 (23.81%) Master's Degree
4 11 (17.46%) PhD
5 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
5 10 (15.87%) Security Cleared
6 7 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (7.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (3.17%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.76%) Keysight
2 2 (3.17%) CA
2 2 (3.17%) Databricks
2 2 (3.17%) MathWorks
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft