PhD Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 151 164 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing PhD 1 10 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.031% 0.27% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.055% 0.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £572 -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £579 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.53% - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £800 £638
% change year-on-year -25.00% +25.49% +10.87%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,805 1,931 1,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.62% 52.67% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,413 1,073
10th Percentile £353 £375 £320
25th Percentile £465 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% +9.47%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £619
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 165 93
10th Percentile £21.00 £39.55 £26.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £57.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.50 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +6.24% +37.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £79.75 £68.30
90th Percentile £80.00 £86.49 £75.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the South West

PhD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PhD in the South West.

Daily rate trend for PhD in the South West

PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PhD in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for PhD in the South West

PhD
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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