PhD Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 21 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 England 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 445 517 518
Rank change year-on-year
+72 +1
Contract jobs citing PhD 67 40 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.158% 0.075% 0.067%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.889% 0.430% 0.422%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 18 17
Average daily rate £550 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £223 £490
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £730 £655
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £188 £625
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -70.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £65.00 - £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £65.00 - £40.00
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 7537 9312 8766
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.82% 17.40% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4003 4940 4263
Average daily rate £375 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 512 609
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.35 £12.50 £12.07
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £44.40 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
PhD
UK

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England PhD Daily Rate Histogram

PhD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London +43 46 £550 -6.38%
East of England +11 13 - -
North West - 5 £250 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
PhD
UK

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 46 (50.55%) C++
2 41 (45.05%) Mathematics
3 35 (38.46%) Degree
4 34 (37.36%) Physics
5 30 (32.97%) Computer Science
6 29 (31.87%) Analytics
7 28 (30.77%) Java
7 28 (30.77%) Linux
8 26 (28.57%) Python
9 23 (25.27%) C#
10 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
11 19 (20.88%) SQL
11 19 (20.88%) Agile Software Development
11 19 (20.88%) Software Engineering
12 18 (19.78%) MVC
13 17 (18.68%) TDD
14 16 (17.58%) .NET
15 15 (16.48%) JavaScript
15 15 (16.48%) Windows
15 15 (16.48%) Data Analysis
16 14 (15.38%) Finance
16 14 (15.38%) ASP.NET
16 14 (15.38%) Perl
16 14 (15.38%) Big Data
16 14 (15.38%) R
16 14 (15.38%) WCF
16 14 (15.38%) Statistics
17 13 (14.29%) Hadoop
17 13 (14.29%) CSS
17 13 (14.29%) Scrum

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 16 (17.58%) .NET
2 14 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 14 (15.38%) WCF
3 13 (14.29%) CSS
4 10 (10.99%) Gherkin
4 10 (10.99%) Razor View Engine
4 10 (10.99%) LESS
4 10 (10.99%) HTML
5 8 (8.791%) MapReduce
5 8 (8.791%) Web Services
6 7 (7.692%) JSON
7 5 (5.495%) RESTful
8 4 (4.396%) Ruby on Rails
8 4 (4.396%) HTML5
8 4 (4.396%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.396%) Spring
8 4 (4.396%) Swing
8 4 (4.396%) J2EE
8 4 (4.396%) MFC
8 4 (4.396%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 12 (13.19%) Apache
1 12 (13.19%) SAS
2 10 (10.99%) Windows Azure
2 10 (10.99%) Apache Pig
3 4 (4.396%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.396%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.099%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 12 (13.19%) MS Excel
2 9 (9.890%) SPSS
3 2 (2.198%) MS Office
4 1 (1.099%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.099%) Simulink
4 1 (1.099%) Maya
4 1 (1.099%) 3ds Max
4 1 (1.099%) S-PLUS
4 1 (1.099%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.099%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.593%) LTE
1 6 (6.593%) 4G
1 6 (6.593%) 3G
1 6 (6.593%) 3GPP
1 6 (6.593%) UMTS
1 6 (6.593%) Wireless
1 6 (6.593%) WiMAX
2 2 (2.198%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) Big Data
2 13 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 10 (10.99%) Apache Hive
3 10 (10.99%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (9.890%) Data Mining
5 8 (8.791%) HBase
5 8 (8.791%) Mahout
6 4 (4.396%) Oracle 8/8i
6 4 (4.396%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.396%) MySQL
7 3 (3.297%) OLAP
7 3 (3.297%) SQLite
8 2 (2.198%) DB2
9 1 (1.099%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.099%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.099%) GIS
9 1 (1.099%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (1.099%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Selenium
2 9 (9.890%) LLVM
3 5 (5.495%) Git (software)
4 4 (4.396%) Subversion
4 4 (4.396%) Maven
5 1 (1.099%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (15.38%) Finance
2 13 (14.29%) Banking
3 12 (13.19%) Front Office
4 8 (8.791%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.495%) Electronics
6 3 (3.297%) Retail
7 2 (2.198%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.198%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.099%) Games
8 1 (1.099%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (41.76%) Developer
2 17 (18.68%) C++ Developer
3 16 (17.58%) Quantitative Developer
4 14 (15.38%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 9 (9.890%) Data Scientist
6 8 (8.791%) Analyst
7 7 (7.692%) Research Engineer
8 6 (6.593%) Development Engineer
8 6 (6.593%) DSP Engineer
9 5 (5.495%) Quantitative Analyst
9 5 (5.495%) Java Developer
10 4 (4.396%) Senior Programmer
10 4 (4.396%) Programmer
10 4 (4.396%) Web Developer
11 3 (3.297%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.297%) Web Applications Developer
11 3 (3.297%) .NET Web Developer
11 3 (3.297%) Applications Developer
11 3 (3.297%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.297%) Research Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 41 (45.05%) Mathematics
2 34 (37.36%) Physics
3 30 (32.97%) Computer Science
4 14 (15.38%) Statistics
5 10 (10.99%) Biology
6 9 (9.890%) Derivative
7 8 (8.791%) Fixed Income
8 7 (7.692%) Visualisation
9 6 (6.593%) Neural Network
9 6 (6.593%) Social Network
9 6 (6.593%) Machine Learning
9 6 (6.593%) Grid Computing
10 5 (5.495%) Credit Risk
11 4 (4.396%) Informatics
11 4 (4.396%) Hedge funds
12 3 (3.297%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (3.297%) Market Risk
13 2 (2.198%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (2.198%) Economics
13 2 (2.198%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.77%) Linux
2 15 (16.48%) Windows
3 11 (12.09%) UNIX
4 3 (3.297%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Analytics
2 19 (20.88%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (20.88%) Software Engineering
3 18 (19.78%) MVC
4 17 (18.68%) TDD
5 15 (16.48%) Data Analysis
6 13 (14.29%) Scrum
7 11 (12.09%) Multithreading
8 10 (10.99%) BDD
8 10 (10.99%) Rapid Prototyping
9 8 (8.791%) Bioinformatics
10 7 (7.692%) Predictive Modelling
11 4 (4.396%) Unit Testing
11 4 (4.396%) Web Application Development
11 4 (4.396%) Information Management
12 3 (3.297%) OO
12 3 (3.297%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (3.297%) Risk Analytics
12 3 (3.297%) Web Development
12 3 (3.297%) Stochastic Calculus
Programming Languages
1 46 (50.55%) C++
2 28 (30.77%) Java
3 26 (28.57%) Python
4 23 (25.27%) C#
5 19 (20.88%) SQL
6 15 (16.48%) JavaScript
7 14 (15.38%) Perl
7 14 (15.38%) R
8 10 (10.99%) Scala
8 10 (10.99%) C
9 9 (9.890%) VC++
9 9 (9.890%) Ruby
10 4 (4.396%) XPath
10 4 (4.396%) Lisp
11 3 (3.297%) VBA
11 3 (3.297%) MATLAB
12 2 (2.198%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.099%) PL/SQL
13 1 (1.099%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (38.46%) Degree
2 6 (6.593%) Postgraduate
3 2 (2.198%) MBA
System Software
1 4 (4.396%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.198%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.099%) Xen
Vendors
1 21 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.692%) Oracle
3 4 (4.396%) VMware
4 3 (3.297%) Teradata
5 2 (2.198%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (1.099%) SunGard
6 1 (1.099%) Intel
6 1 (1.099%) Facebook
6 1 (1.099%) Xilinx
6 1 (1.099%) Google
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