The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 18 June 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 City of London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 183 208 236
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +28
Contract jobs citing PhD 32 14 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.464% 0.182% 0.120%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.955% 1.320% 0.976%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 8
Average daily rate £456 £625 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.00% +8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £595 £520
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £710 £663
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £250 £625
% change year-on-year
- -60.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1083 1061 1229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 15.71% 13.76% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 655 792
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £252 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 38 58
Average hourly rate £23.75 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.05% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.50 £14.83
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.20 £28.00 £36.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
PhD
London

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London PhD Daily Rate Trend

PhD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PhD across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London PhD Daily Rate Histogram

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 25 (65.79%) Analytics
2 24 (63.16%) Mathematics
3 21 (55.26%) C++
4 20 (52.63%) Physics
5 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
6 15 (39.47%) Computer Science
7 14 (36.84%) Degree
8 13 (34.21%) Software Engineering
9 12 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
9 12 (31.58%) TDD
9 12 (31.58%) C#
10 11 (28.95%) MS Excel
10 11 (28.95%) Banking
10 11 (28.95%) Data Analysis
11 10 (26.32%) Scrum
11 10 (26.32%) Statistics
11 10 (26.32%) Selenium
11 10 (26.32%) WCF
11 10 (26.32%) MVC
11 10 (26.32%) ASP.NET
11 10 (26.32%) CSS
11 10 (26.32%) HTML
11 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
11 10 (26.32%) .NET
11 10 (26.32%) Gherkin
11 10 (26.32%) LESS
11 10 (26.32%) Windows Azure
11 10 (26.32%) Rapid Prototyping
11 10 (26.32%) BDD
11 10 (26.32%) Razor View Engine

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 10 (26.32%) HTML
1 10 (26.32%) .NET
1 10 (26.32%) ASP.NET
1 10 (26.32%) CSS
1 10 (26.32%) WCF
1 10 (26.32%) Razor View Engine
1 10 (26.32%) Gherkin
1 10 (26.32%) LESS
2 6 (15.79%) MapReduce
3 3 (7.895%) STL
4 2 (5.263%) ASP
4 2 (5.263%) WPF
4 2 (5.263%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 10 (26.32%) Windows Azure
2 8 (21.05%) SAS
3 6 (15.79%) Apache
3 6 (15.79%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 11 (28.95%) MS Excel
2 7 (18.42%) SPSS
3 1 (2.632%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Hadoop
1 9 (23.68%) Big Data
2 8 (21.05%) Data Mining
3 6 (15.79%) Apache Hive
3 6 (15.79%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (15.79%) HBase
3 6 (15.79%) Mahout
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Selenium
2 7 (18.42%) LLVM
General
1 11 (28.95%) Banking
2 9 (23.68%) Front Office
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 2 (5.263%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.632%) Marketing
5 1 (2.632%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Developer
2 14 (36.84%) C++ Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Data Scientist
4 6 (15.79%) Research Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (7.895%) Research Scientist
6 3 (7.895%) Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Front Office Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Data Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Quantitative Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Senior Data Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Research Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Planning Manager
Miscellaneous
1 24 (63.16%) Mathematics
2 20 (52.63%) Physics
3 15 (39.47%) Computer Science
4 10 (26.32%) Statistics
5 8 (21.05%) Grid Computing
6 7 (18.42%) Fixed Income
6 7 (18.42%) Derivative
7 6 (15.79%) Neural Network
7 6 (15.79%) Social Network
7 6 (15.79%) Visualisation
8 1 (2.632%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Analytics
2 13 (34.21%) Software Engineering
3 12 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (31.58%) TDD
4 11 (28.95%) Data Analysis
5 10 (26.32%) MVC
5 10 (26.32%) Scrum
5 10 (26.32%) BDD
5 10 (26.32%) Rapid Prototyping
6 9 (23.68%) Multithreading
7 7 (18.42%) Predictive Modelling
8 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (2.632%) Online Marketing
9 1 (2.632%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (2.632%) Big Data Analytics
9 1 (2.632%) Statistical Modelling
9 1 (2.632%) Data Analytics
9 1 (2.632%) Stakeholder Management
9 1 (2.632%) CRM
9 1 (2.632%) CHAID
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) C++
2 12 (31.58%) C#
3 10 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 8 (21.05%) Java
4 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 8 (21.05%) R
5 7 (18.42%) VC++
5 7 (18.42%) Python
6 6 (15.79%) Scala
7 4 (10.53%) VBA
8 2 (5.263%) MATLAB
9 1 (2.632%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (36.84%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) Postgraduate
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.632%) Teradata
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