Physics Jobs in England

Physics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 479 448
Rank change year-on-year +96 -31 0
Permanent jobs citing Physics 609 507 1,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.58% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.61% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 428 215 360
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,318 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,409 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% +4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £71,563 £95,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £140,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £61,337 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.41% +2.23% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,286 83,164 132,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.41% 95.59% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54,336 49,441 73,222
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,384
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Physics in England

Physics
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Physics in England.

Salary trend for Physics in England

Physics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Physics in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Physics in England

Physics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the England region over the 6 months to 25 May 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 +81 238 £50,000 +0.50% 174
London +62 144 £75,000 -11.76% 174
South West -2 83 £44,000 -20.72% 38
East of England +41 60 £51,250 -31.67% 75
Midlands -13 46 £52,500 +10.53% 46
North of England +30 34 £51,528 +16.20% 38
East Midlands -8 29 £32,500 -33.33% 16
North West +12 24 £60,750 -4.71% 23
West Midlands -8 17 £62,500 +115.52% 29
Yorkshire +62 8 £51,528 +16.20% 6
North East -5 2 £55,000 +120.00% 9
Physics
UK

Physics
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 16 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.81%) SAS
3 7 (1.15%) Apache
4 5 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (3.28%) Simulink
2 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) OrCAD
3 5 (0.82%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.16%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (10.02%) Azure
2 45 (7.39%) AWS
3 33 (5.42%) Power Platform
4 13 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (1.97%) Entra ID
5 12 (1.97%) IaaS
5 12 (1.97%) PaaS
6 11 (1.81%) GCP
7 6 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (0.99%) Power Automate
7 6 (0.99%) PowerApps
8 3 (0.49%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (0.33%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.33%) SaaS
9 2 (0.33%) Serverless
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Neptune
10 1 (0.16%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.13%) DHCP
1 13 (2.13%) DNS
1 13 (2.13%) WAN
2 12 (1.97%) LAN
2 12 (1.97%) RS-232
2 12 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (1.81%) Ethernet
4 10 (1.64%) Network Security
5 7 (1.15%) Link 16
6 6 (0.99%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.99%) Wireless
7 5 (0.82%) Firewall
7 5 (0.82%) Internet
7 5 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (0.82%) VPN
8 3 (0.49%) Modbus
8 3 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
8 3 (0.49%) ZigBee
9 2 (0.33%) Broadband
9 2 (0.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (8.54%) Tableau
2 20 (3.28%) Power BI
3 18 (2.96%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.64%) Hadoop
4 10 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (0.66%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.66%) Redis
7 3 (0.49%) Big Data
7 3 (0.49%) Looker
8 2 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.16%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.16%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.16%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 72 (11.82%) Git
2 20 (3.28%) Visual Studio
3 19 (3.12%) GitLab
4 16 (2.63%) JIRA
5 10 (1.64%) Subversion
6 8 (1.31%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.31%) LabVIEW
7 7 (1.15%) CMake
7 7 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.15%) TestRail
8 5 (0.82%) Xcode
9 4 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.66%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.49%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.49%) GDB
10 3 (0.49%) gulp
10 3 (0.49%) PostCSS
10 3 (0.49%) rollup.js
10 3 (0.49%) Vite
11 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 162 (26.60%) Social Skills
2 130 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
3 62 (10.18%) Electronics
4 37 (6.08%) Retail
5 36 (5.91%) Games
6 35 (5.75%) Aerospace
7 28 (4.60%) Finance
7 28 (4.60%) Manufacturing
8 26 (4.27%) Military
9 21 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (2.79%) Marketing
11 16 (2.63%) Automotive
12 14 (2.30%) Banking
12 14 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.15%) Avionics
13 7 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.15%) Italian Language
14 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.82%) Front Office
15 5 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 138 (22.66%) Senior
2 104 (17.08%) Software Engineer
3 63 (10.34%) Developer
4 62 (10.18%) Data Scientist
5 58 (9.52%) Senior Data Scientist
6 53 (8.70%) Analyst
7 50 (8.21%) Graduate
8 49 (8.05%) Systems Engineer
9 40 (6.57%) Architect
10 27 (4.43%) Software Architect
11 23 (3.78%) Lead
12 21 (3.45%) Junior
13 18 (2.96%) Graduate Software Engineer
14 16 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (2.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (2.46%) Senior Developer
16 13 (2.13%) Physicist
16 13 (2.13%) Software Developer
17 12 (1.97%) Hardware Engineer
17 12 (1.97%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.05%) PySpark
1 49 (8.05%) TensorFlow
2 48 (7.88%) Pandas
3 46 (7.55%) scikit-learn
4 28 (4.60%) .NET
5 22 (3.61%) Unreal Engine
6 20 (3.28%) HTML
6 20 (3.28%) OpenMP
7 16 (2.63%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 14 (2.30%) OpenACC
9 13 (2.13%) OpenGL
10 12 (1.97%) HTML5
10 12 (1.97%) WinForms
10 12 (1.97%) WPF
11 10 (1.64%) Qt
11 10 (1.64%) Vulkan
12 9 (1.48%) CSS
12 9 (1.48%) DirectX
13 8 (1.31%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.31%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 187 (30.71%) Algorithms
2 45 (7.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 37 (6.08%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (5.42%) Management Information System
5 29 (4.76%) CUDA
5 29 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 26 (4.27%) Driving Licence
7 25 (4.11%) Analogue Electronics
8 24 (3.94%) FPGA
9 17 (2.79%) Data Structures
10 15 (2.46%) VHDL
11 12 (1.97%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.64%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
14 8 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
15 7 (1.15%) Client/Server
15 7 (1.15%) Fixed Income
15 7 (1.15%) Hedge funds
15 7 (1.15%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 96 (15.76%) Linux
2 37 (6.08%) Unix
3 25 (4.11%) Windows
4 8 (1.31%) Debian
4 8 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 5 (0.82%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.33%) Android
8 1 (0.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (71.43%) Mathematics
2 256 (42.04%) Computer Science
3 172 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
4 161 (26.44%) Software Engineering
5 123 (20.20%) Machine Learning
6 101 (16.58%) Artificial Intelligence
7 98 (16.09%) Statistics
8 95 (15.60%) Data Science
9 93 (15.27%) Agile
10 68 (11.17%) Chemistry
11 66 (10.84%) Decision-Making
12 62 (10.18%) Validation
13 56 (9.20%) Customer Experience
14 55 (9.03%) Software Testing
15 53 (8.70%) Predictive Modelling
16 52 (8.54%) Actionable Insight
16 52 (8.54%) Natural Language Processing
16 52 (8.54%) Visualisation
17 51 (8.37%) Parallel Programming
18 50 (8.21%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 278 (45.65%) Python
2 148 (24.30%) C++
3 130 (21.35%) SQL
4 121 (19.87%) C
5 96 (15.76%) Fortran
6 90 (14.78%) C#
7 63 (10.34%) MATLAB
8 52 (8.54%) Java
9 39 (6.40%) Bash
10 34 (5.58%) R
11 27 (4.43%) JavaScript
12 19 (3.12%) PowerShell
13 13 (2.13%) Go
14 8 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.15%) C-shell
15 7 (1.15%) Perl
16 6 (0.99%) Embedded C
16 6 (0.99%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.66%) Ada
17 4 (0.66%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 464 (76.19%) Degree
2 160 (26.27%) Master's Degree
3 143 (23.48%) PhD
4 133 (21.84%) Security Cleared
5 66 (10.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (8.05%) DBS Check
7 40 (6.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (4.11%) DV Cleared
9 24 (3.94%) SC Cleared
10 12 (1.97%) A+ Certification
10 12 (1.97%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (0.99%) CISSP
11 6 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.82%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.33%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.33%) HNC
13 2 (0.33%) OSCE
13 2 (0.33%) OSCP
14 1 (0.16%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.13%) ISO 9002
2 10 (1.64%) PMO
3 8 (1.31%) QA
4 7 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.99%) IFRS
5 6 (0.99%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.82%) CRD IV
6 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 5 (0.82%) NIST
6 5 (0.82%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.16%) RMADS
System Software
1 13 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.64%) Docker
3 9 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.31%) Firmware
5 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (0.99%) Kubernetes
1 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.82%) Suricata
3 2 (0.33%) Ansible
4 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.16%) Puppet
4 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 79 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.39%) Databricks
3 12 (1.97%) Veeam
4 5 (0.82%) Cisco
4 5 (0.82%) Juniper
4 5 (0.82%) NVIDIA
4 5 (0.82%) Palo Alto
4 5 (0.82%) Splunk
5 4 (0.66%) Atlassian
5 4 (0.66%) HubSpot
5 4 (0.66%) IBM
6 3 (0.49%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.49%) DevExpress
6 3 (0.49%) SAP
6 3 (0.49%) Thales
7 2 (0.33%) Google
7 2 (0.33%) Sage
7 2 (0.33%) VMware
8 1 (0.16%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.16%) Xilinx