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 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 51 58 84
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 -7
Permanent jobs citing PhD 68 51 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.47% 3.76% 3.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.95% 10.52% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 57 9 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £64,750 £40,371
25th Percentile £41,250 £71,250 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £44,345
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +80.40% -1.46%
75th Percentile £68,750 £140,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £73,750 - £73,141
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +33.33% -9.82%

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 455 485 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 23.23% 35.71% 43.84%
Number of salaries quoted 333 233 363
10th Percentile £31,050 £24,000 £28,600
25th Percentile £36,750 £34,990 £36,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,976 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -2.96% +14.44%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,300 £100,000
South East median annual salary £51,500 £51,425 £50,845
% change year-on-year +0.15% +1.14% +1.69%

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 12 June 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +19 45 £62,500 -21.88% 8
Abingdon +8 2 - - 2
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 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.47%) AWS
2 1 (1.47%) Azure
2 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.47%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Git
General
1 21 (30.88%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Aeronautics
3 4 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.94%) Law
4 2 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.47%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (38.24%) Senior
2 12 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Junior
4 7 (10.29%) Computer Scientist
4 7 (10.29%) Research Scientist
5 5 (7.35%) Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Programmer
5 5 (7.35%) Senior Computer Scientist
5 5 (7.35%) Software Programmer
6 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Machine Learning Scientist
6 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Data Scientist
7 3 (4.41%) Scientific Software Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Performance Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Research Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Data Scientist
9 1 (1.47%) Physicist
9 1 (1.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) OpenACC
1 11 (16.18%) OpenMP
2 4 (5.88%) Rendezvous
3 1 (1.47%) EDI
3 1 (1.47%) NumPy
3 1 (1.47%) OpenCL
3 1 (1.47%) Pandas
3 1 (1.47%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (58.82%) Algorithms
2 14 (20.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (20.59%) Data Structures
3 13 (19.12%) CUDA
4 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.88%) Linux
2 11 (16.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (70.59%) Physics
2 44 (64.71%) Computer Science
3 38 (55.88%) Mathematics
4 28 (41.18%) Parallel Programming
5 24 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (30.88%) Chemistry
7 18 (26.47%) Software Engineering
8 17 (25.00%) Machine Learning
9 15 (22.06%) Prototyping
10 14 (20.59%) Complexity Analysis
10 14 (20.59%) OO
10 14 (20.59%) OOD
11 11 (16.18%) Code Optimisation
12 7 (10.29%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
14 5 (7.35%) Agile
14 5 (7.35%) CI/CD
14 5 (7.35%) Decision-Making
14 5 (7.35%) Mathematical Modelling
15 4 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 54 (79.41%) Python
2 32 (47.06%) Fortran
3 31 (45.59%) C
4 17 (25.00%) C++
5 9 (13.24%) Java
5 9 (13.24%) MATLAB
6 5 (7.35%) C#
7 4 (5.88%) AWK
7 4 (5.88%) sed
7 4 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.94%) R
9 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 68 (100.00%) Degree
2 49 (72.06%) Master's Degree
3 5 (7.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Ansible
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.47%) Google
1 1 (1.47%) NVIDIA
1 1 (1.47%) Qubit
1 1 (1.47%) YouTube