Physics 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 prevalence of the term Physics in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Physics over the 3 months to 20 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Physics
Rank 433 528 527
Rank change year-on-year
+95 -1
Contract jobs citing Physics 70 38 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.168% 0.071% 0.078%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.626% 0.281% 0.264%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 20 21
Average daily rate £550 £350 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -36.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £258 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £458 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
+42.85% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £23.75
% change year-on-year
- +47.36%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 11189 13532 16260
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.83% 25.35% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6897 8138 9793
Average daily rate £443 £435 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.72% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 616 682
Average hourly rate £24.00 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Physics
UK

Physics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Physics Jobs Demand Trend

Physics
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Physics Daily Rate Trend

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Physics across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England Physics Daily Rate Histogram

Physics
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Physics Hourly Rate Trend

Physics
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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 +74 61 £550 +21.68%
South East +15 6 £330 -5.71%
East of England +13 3 - -
Physics
UK

Physics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Physics 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 Physics.

1 143 (79.89%) Mathematics
2 122 (68.16%) Computer Science
2 122 (68.16%) Degree
3 80 (44.69%) C++
4 48 (26.82%) Java
5 47 (26.26%) C#
6 45 (25.14%) Software Engineering
7 42 (23.46%) Finance
8 38 (21.23%) SQL
9 36 (20.11%) Linux
10 35 (19.55%) Windows
10 35 (19.55%) PhD
11 34 (18.99%) Banking
12 32 (17.88%) Statistics
13 29 (16.20%) .NET
13 29 (16.20%) Analytics
14 24 (13.41%) Multithreading
14 24 (13.41%) OO
14 24 (13.41%) Microsoft
15 22 (12.29%) Front Office
15 22 (12.29%) Investment Banking
16 20 (11.17%) Data Analysis
16 20 (11.17%) VC++
16 20 (11.17%) Data Mining
16 20 (11.17%) Hadoop
16 20 (11.17%) Big Data
17 19 (10.61%) Python
17 19 (10.61%) Oracle
17 19 (10.61%) Maven
18 18 (10.06%) Scrum

Physics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Physics 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 Physics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (16.20%) .NET
2 17 (9.497%) MapReduce
3 13 (7.263%) XML
4 11 (6.145%) .NET Framework
4 11 (6.145%) WPF
5 9 (5.028%) Silverlight
5 9 (5.028%) XSLT
5 9 (5.028%) ASP
6 8 (4.469%) WCF
7 7 (3.911%) CSS
7 7 (3.911%) JMS
7 7 (3.911%) CORBA
8 6 (3.352%) Spring
8 6 (3.352%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.793%) Middleware
9 5 (2.793%) Web Services
9 5 (2.793%) Node.js
10 4 (2.235%) HTML5
10 4 (2.235%) JRules
10 4 (2.235%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 17 (9.497%) Apache Pig
2 14 (7.821%) SAS
3 8 (4.469%) Apache
4 4 (2.235%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.676%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.676%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.117%) Rendezvous
7 1 (0.559%) ESB
7 1 (0.559%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.559%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.559%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.559%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (5.028%) SPSS
2 6 (3.352%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.676%) Maya
4 2 (1.117%) MS Office
5 1 (0.559%) MS Project
5 1 (0.559%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.559%) CATIA
5 1 (0.559%) Pro/ENGINEER
5 1 (0.559%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.559%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (2.793%) SunGard APT
2 3 (1.676%) FastVal
3 2 (1.117%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.559%) Summit
4 1 (0.559%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.469%) HTTP
2 6 (3.352%) 3GPP
3 4 (2.235%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (2.235%) SNMP
3 4 (2.235%) SAN
4 2 (1.117%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.117%) 2G
4 2 (1.117%) BSS
4 2 (1.117%) LTE
5 1 (0.559%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) Data Mining
1 20 (11.17%) Hadoop
1 20 (11.17%) Big Data
2 17 (9.497%) Apache Hive
2 17 (9.497%) Apache Cassandra
2 17 (9.497%) HBase
2 17 (9.497%) Mahout
3 12 (6.704%) NoSQL
3 12 (6.704%) RDBMS
3 12 (6.704%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.028%) OLAP
4 9 (5.028%) MongoDB
5 5 (2.793%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 4 (2.235%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (2.235%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (2.235%) KDB
7 3 (1.676%) MarkLogic
7 3 (1.676%) GIS
8 2 (1.117%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.117%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (10.61%) Maven
2 15 (8.380%) TeamCity
3 11 (6.145%) Artifactory
4 9 (5.028%) LLVM
5 7 (3.911%) Ant
6 5 (2.793%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (2.235%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 4 (2.235%) Telelogic TAU
7 4 (2.235%) Rational Rose
8 3 (1.676%) JUnit
8 3 (1.676%) JIRA
8 3 (1.676%) Selenium
8 3 (1.676%) jMock
8 3 (1.676%) Xcode
8 3 (1.676%) EasyMock
9 2 (1.117%) LabVIEW
9 2 (1.117%) Subversion
10 1 (0.559%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.559%) NUnit
10 1 (0.559%) Moq
General
1 42 (23.46%) Finance
2 34 (18.99%) Banking
3 22 (12.29%) Investment Banking
3 22 (12.29%) Front Office
4 14 (7.821%) Games
5 7 (3.911%) Electronics
5 7 (3.911%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.352%) Retail
7 5 (2.793%) Marketing
8 4 (2.235%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.676%) Automotive
9 3 (1.676%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.676%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.117%) Back Office
11 1 (0.559%) Legal
11 1 (0.559%) Military
11 1 (0.559%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 106 (59.22%) Developer
2 36 (20.11%) C++ Developer
3 23 (12.85%) Analyst
4 17 (9.497%) C# Developer
5 15 (8.380%) Quantitative Developer
6 14 (7.821%) C++ Quantitative Developer
7 13 (7.263%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.587%) Programmer
8 10 (5.587%) Data Scientist
9 9 (5.028%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.469%) Architect
10 8 (4.469%) Research Engineer
11 7 (3.911%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (3.911%) Hadoop Developer
11 7 (3.911%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.911%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.352%) C++ Programmer
12 6 (3.352%) iOS Developer
13 5 (2.793%) JavaScript Developer
13 5 (2.793%) Games Developer
Miscellaneous
1 143 (79.89%) Mathematics
2 122 (68.16%) Computer Science
3 32 (17.88%) Statistics
4 16 (8.939%) Derivative
4 16 (8.939%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (8.939%) Social Network
5 12 (6.704%) Market Risk
6 11 (6.145%) Credit Risk
6 11 (6.145%) Machine Learning
6 11 (6.145%) Fixed Income
7 10 (5.587%) Economics
8 9 (5.028%) Data Integration
9 7 (3.911%) Animation
10 6 (3.352%) Neural Network
10 6 (3.352%) Grid Computing
10 6 (3.352%) Visualisation
10 6 (3.352%) iPad
11 5 (2.793%) Management Information System
12 4 (2.235%) Hedge funds
12 4 (2.235%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.11%) Linux
2 35 (19.55%) Windows
3 13 (7.263%) UNIX
4 6 (3.352%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.14%) Software Engineering
2 29 (16.20%) Analytics
3 24 (13.41%) OO
3 24 (13.41%) Multithreading
4 20 (11.17%) Data Analysis
5 18 (10.06%) Scrum
6 16 (8.939%) Risk Management
7 15 (8.380%) Data Modelling
8 13 (7.263%) Agile Software Development
8 13 (7.263%) Business Analysis
9 11 (6.145%) TDD
10 10 (5.587%) Asset Management
11 8 (4.469%) Use Case
12 7 (3.911%) Waterfall
12 7 (3.911%) OOD
12 7 (3.911%) UML
13 6 (3.352%) Service Management
13 6 (3.352%) Predictive Modelling
14 5 (2.793%) Product Management
14 5 (2.793%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 80 (44.69%) C++
2 48 (26.82%) Java
3 47 (26.26%) C#
4 38 (21.23%) SQL
5 20 (11.17%) VC++
6 19 (10.61%) Python
7 11 (6.145%) C
7 11 (6.145%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.145%) VBA
8 8 (4.469%) Ruby
8 8 (4.469%) Scala
8 8 (4.469%) R
8 8 (4.469%) Perl
9 6 (3.352%) XPath
10 4 (2.235%) XQuery
10 4 (2.235%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.235%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.676%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.117%) Delphi
13 1 (0.559%) AWK
Qualifications
1 122 (68.16%) Degree
2 35 (19.55%) PhD
3 5 (2.793%) HND
3 5 (2.793%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.235%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.235%) Postgraduate
5 3 (1.676%) HNC
6 2 (1.117%) MBA
7 1 (0.559%) MCTS
7 1 (0.559%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.559%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.469%) QA
2 1 (0.559%) JTAG
2 1 (0.559%) Basel III
Vendors
1 24 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.61%) Oracle
3 9 (5.028%) TIBCO
4 6 (3.352%) SunGard
5 4 (2.235%) Informatica
5 4 (2.235%) Telelogic
5 4 (2.235%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (1.676%) Remedy
7 2 (1.117%) IBM
7 2 (1.117%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.117%) Borland
7 2 (1.117%) HP
7 2 (1.117%) EMC
7 2 (1.117%) WSO2
8 1 (0.559%) Sybase
8 1 (0.559%) Murex
8 1 (0.559%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.559%) Perforce
8 1 (0.559%) SolidWorks
8 1 (0.559%) SIMUL8
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