Physics Contracts in England

Physics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 538 634
Rank change year-on-year +53 +96 -90
Contract jobs citing Physics 53 117 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.26% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 59 86
10th Percentile £312 £146 £140
25th Percentile £403 £592 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £633
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +10.67% +3.69%
75th Percentile £884 £825 £884
90th Percentile £950 £978 £950
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £625
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 13
10th Percentile - £19.00 -
25th Percentile £54.75 £20.47 £19.52
Median hourly rate £59.75 £60.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% +71.79% -8.74%
75th Percentile £67.81 £65.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £44.69
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £53.75 £19.91
% change year-on-year +11.16% +169.96% -48.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Physics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Physics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Physics in England

Physics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Physics in England.

Daily rate trend for Physics in England

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physics in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Physics in England

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Physics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Physics in England

Physics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +61 29 £850 +17.24% 122
South East +7 8 £355 +140.68% 94
Midlands - 7 £320 - 32
West Midlands - 7 £320 - 11
East of England +5 6 - - 61
North of England +32 1 £650 - 23
North West +23 1 £650 - 20
South West +9 1 £700 +55.56% 40
Physics
UK

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.66%) SAS
2 1 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.89%) Apache
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) Simulink
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.55%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (5.66%) SPSS
4 2 (3.77%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Orchestrade
1 1 (1.89%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.77%) AWS
1 2 (3.77%) Azure
2 1 (1.89%) Azure Batch
2 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (5.66%) Tableau
2 1 (1.89%) Big Data
2 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
1 5 (9.43%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.77%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (3.77%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Maven
3 1 (1.89%) MLflow
3 1 (1.89%) Subversion
General
1 20 (37.74%) Finance
2 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 14 (26.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (20.75%) Banking
5 10 (18.87%) Front Office
6 9 (16.98%) Investment Banking
7 6 (11.32%) Aerospace
8 4 (7.55%) Automotive
8 4 (7.55%) Electronics
8 4 (7.55%) Manufacturing
8 4 (7.55%) Marketing
8 4 (7.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (5.66%) Advertising
9 3 (5.66%) Back Office
9 3 (5.66%) Games
9 3 (5.66%) Legal
9 3 (5.66%) Military
10 2 (3.77%) Law
10 2 (3.77%) Multimedia
11 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Analyst
2 12 (22.64%) Qualitative Analyst
2 12 (22.64%) Quantitative Analyst
3 9 (16.98%) Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Credit Analyst
4 4 (7.55%) Quantitative Developer
4 4 (7.55%) React Developer
5 3 (5.66%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Data Scientist
5 3 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.66%) RF Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) E-Commerce Manager
6 2 (3.77%) E-Commerce Product Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (3.77%) Senior
6 2 (3.77%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Python Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Research Software Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) CSS
1 5 (9.43%) HTML
2 4 (7.55%) React
3 3 (5.66%) D3.js
4 2 (3.77%) NumPy
4 2 (3.77%) Pandas
4 2 (3.77%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.89%) CSS3
5 1 (1.89%) Dask
5 1 (1.89%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.89%) Kafka
5 1 (1.89%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.89%) OSGi
5 1 (1.89%) PySpark
5 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.89%) SciPy
5 1 (1.89%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.89%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.42%) Derivative
2 12 (22.64%) Algorithms
3 9 (16.98%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (16.98%) Fixed Income
4 8 (15.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (15.09%) Hedge funds
5 6 (11.32%) Credit Derivative
6 5 (9.43%) Equities
7 4 (7.55%) Data Structures
7 4 (7.55%) Infotainment
8 3 (5.66%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
9 2 (3.77%) Mobile Games
10 1 (1.89%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (1.89%) Animation
10 1 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (1.89%) Digital TV
10 1 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.89%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Unix
3 4 (7.55%) Windows
4 2 (3.77%) Android
4 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.89%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) Mathematics
2 20 (37.74%) Computer Science
3 15 (28.30%) Quantitative Finance
4 14 (26.42%) Analytics
5 13 (24.53%) Statistics
6 10 (18.87%) Analytical Modelling
7 9 (16.98%) Agile
7 9 (16.98%) Data Science
7 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (15.09%) Validation
9 7 (13.21%) Model Validation
9 7 (13.21%) Product Strategy
10 6 (11.32%) Machine Learning
11 5 (9.43%) Data Analysis
11 5 (9.43%) Numerical Analysis
12 4 (7.55%) Kanban
12 4 (7.55%) Scrum
12 4 (7.55%) Systems Analysis
12 4 (7.55%) Use Case
12 4 (7.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (60.38%) Python
2 22 (41.51%) C++
3 14 (26.42%) MATLAB
4 8 (15.09%) Java
4 8 (15.09%) JavaScript
5 7 (13.21%) C#
5 7 (13.21%) R
6 6 (11.32%) SQL
7 5 (9.43%) Shell Script
8 4 (7.55%) C
8 4 (7.55%) Perl
8 4 (7.55%) VBA
9 3 (5.66%) Fortran
10 1 (1.89%) Bash
10 1 (1.89%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.89%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (81.13%) Degree
2 19 (35.85%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
4 7 (13.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.43%) Master's Degree
6 3 (5.66%) PhD
7 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Docker
1 1 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Ansible
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.66%) Keysight
2 2 (3.77%) MathWorks
3 1 (1.89%) Adobe
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle