PhD Contracts in Gloucestershire

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
South West > Gloucestershire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PhD 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.24% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £750 £579 -
% change year-on-year +29.53% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

PhD is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 258 349 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 62.02% 72.71% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 248 224
10th Percentile £425 £371 £313
25th Percentile £513 £462 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £625
90th Percentile £759 £716 £680
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £520
% change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 30 2
10th Percentile £15.75 £49.75 £65.70
25th Percentile £15.89 £59.88 £74.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £78.00 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.74% -11.86% +96.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £83.31 £102.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.40 £111.30
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £61.65
% change year-on-year -8.40% +6.24% +37.00%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in Gloucestershire

PhD
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Cheltenham - 1 £750 -
PhD
South West

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared