PhD Jobs in Oxfordshire

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -9 -14 +19
Permanent jobs citing PhD 22 15 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.02% 2.16% 6.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.94% 8.15% 14.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 40
10th Percentile £52,489 £52,293 £36,953
25th Percentile £55,163 £52,397 £40,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,509 £55,000 £50,845
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +8.17% +14.66%
75th Percentile £57,854 £70,875 £62,971
90th Percentile £64,498 £80,000 £84,875
South East median annual salary £57,461 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.47% +4.76% +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 246 184 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 22.59% 26.55% 45.04%
Number of salaries quoted 99 143 287
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,732 £39,520 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,818 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.64% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,971
90th Percentile £75,500 £74,300 £73,450
South East median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +0.96% +4.00%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in Oxfordshire

PhD
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in Oxfordshire.

Salary trend for PhD in Oxfordshire

PhD
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 13 November 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in Oxfordshire

PhD
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Oxford +8 10 £80,000 +6.67% 7
PhD
South East

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
1 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) GitLab
General
1 7 (31.82%) Electronics
1 7 (31.82%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
1 7 (31.82%) Software Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Physicist
3 4 (18.18%) Programmer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Programmer
4 3 (13.64%) Platform Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Research Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) EDI
1 3 (13.64%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) Algorithms
2 7 (31.82%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (31.82%) Molecular Biology
3 3 (13.64%) CUDA
3 3 (13.64%) Fat Client
3 3 (13.64%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Debian
3 3 (13.64%) Unix
3 3 (13.64%) VMS
3 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Data Analysis
2 8 (36.36%) Bioinformatics
2 8 (36.36%) Disruptive Innovation
3 7 (31.82%) Biology
3 7 (31.82%) Commercialisation
3 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (31.82%) Customer Analysis
3 7 (31.82%) Informatics
3 7 (31.82%) Open Source
3 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) Workflow
3 7 (31.82%) Workflow Management
4 6 (27.27%) Benchmarking
4 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 6 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
6 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 4 (18.18%) Physics
6 4 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Python
2 12 (54.55%) C++
3 6 (27.27%) C
3 6 (27.27%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) Fortran
5 4 (18.18%) C#
5 4 (18.18%) MATLAB
6 3 (13.64%) Bash
6 3 (13.64%) C-shell
6 3 (13.64%) Rust
7 1 (4.55%) AWK
7 1 (4.55%) sed
7 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Degree
2 15 (68.18%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
3 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (13.64%) CCNA
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (13.64%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
1 3 (13.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) IBM
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) Qubit
2 1 (4.55%) Google