The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Cambridgeshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 35 57 46
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -11
Contract jobs citing PhD 15 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 2.742% 0.729% 0.945%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.15% 4.167% 5.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £275 £625
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -56.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
All Qualifications
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
106 120 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 19.38% 17.49% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 66 33
Average daily rate £310 £290 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% +16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £160 £152
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 22
Average hourly rate £35.25 £16.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.31% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.15 £12.23 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.20 £47.50 £18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
PhD
East of England

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PhD across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cambridgeshire PhD Jobs Demand Trend

PhD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PhD across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire PhD Daily Rate Trend

PhD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PhD across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire PhD Hourly Rate Trend

PhD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +11 4 - -
PhD
East of England

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing PhD also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PhD.

1 14 (66.67%) Java
1 14 (66.67%) Perl
1 14 (66.67%) Linux
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) Biology
3 10 (47.62%) Degree
3 10 (47.62%) Bioinformatics
3 10 (47.62%) UNIX
4 9 (42.86%) Ruby
5 6 (28.57%) LTE
5 6 (28.57%) WiMAX
5 6 (28.57%) 3GPP
5 6 (28.57%) UMTS
5 6 (28.57%) 3G
5 6 (28.57%) Wireless
5 6 (28.57%) 4G
6 5 (23.81%) SQL
6 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
7 4 (19.05%) Subversion
7 4 (19.05%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (19.05%) JSON
7 4 (19.05%) Informatics
7 4 (19.05%) Git (software)
7 4 (19.05%) RESTful
7 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
7 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (19.05%) Lisp
7 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
7 4 (19.05%) VMware
7 4 (19.05%) Agile Software Development

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing PhD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PhD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (19.05%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (19.05%) JSON
1 4 (19.05%) RESTful
1 4 (19.05%) Hibernate
1 4 (19.05%) Spring
1 4 (19.05%) J2EE
1 4 (19.05%) Web Services
1 4 (19.05%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache
1 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
1 4 (19.05%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LTE
1 6 (28.57%) WiMAX
1 6 (28.57%) 3GPP
1 6 (28.57%) UMTS
1 6 (28.57%) 3G
1 6 (28.57%) Wireless
1 6 (28.57%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Subversion
1 4 (19.05%) Git (software)
1 4 (19.05%) Maven
2 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.762%) Finance
1 1 (4.762%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) DSP Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) Development Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Programmer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior Programmer
3 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Software Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Biology
2 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
3 4 (19.05%) Informatics
4 2 (9.524%) LIMS
5 1 (4.762%) Market Risk
5 1 (4.762%) Mathematics
5 1 (4.762%) Physics
5 1 (4.762%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Linux
2 10 (47.62%) UNIX
3 1 (4.762%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Bioinformatics
2 4 (19.05%) Unit Testing
2 4 (19.05%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (19.05%) TDD
2 4 (19.05%) Information Management
2 4 (19.05%) MVC
3 1 (4.762%) Risk Management
3 1 (4.762%) Validation
3 1 (4.762%) OOP
3 1 (4.762%) OO
3 1 (4.762%) Software Engineering
3 1 (4.762%) Data Analysis
3 1 (4.762%) Asset Management
3 1 (4.762%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
1 14 (66.67%) Perl
1 14 (66.67%) Python
2 9 (42.86%) Ruby
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Lisp
4 4 (19.05%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) VMware
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.762%) SunGard
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