Physics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 540 593 681
Rank change year-on-year +53 +88 -83
Contract jobs citing Physics 54 123 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 59 89
10th Percentile £312 £146 £140
25th Percentile £403 £592 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £884 £825 £888
90th Percentile £950 £978 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £148 £198
% change year-on-year +157.63% -25.32% -53.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 21
10th Percentile - £19.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.75 £20.47 £19.52
Median hourly rate £59.75 £53.75 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +11.16% +169.96% -48.09%
75th Percentile £67.81 £65.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £55.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +8.18% +181.76% -54.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Physics in the UK

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the UK 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
England +53 53 £675 -3.57% 366
London +61 29 £850 +17.24% 121
UK excluding London +46 23 £380 +157.63% 265
Work from Home +118 22 £825 +459.32% 138
South East +7 8 £355 +140.68% 93
West Midlands - 7 £320 - 11
Midlands - 7 £320 - 32
East of England +5 6 - - 62
North of England +32 1 £650 - 22
North West +23 1 £650 - 19
South West +9 1 £700 +55.56% 40

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.56%) SAS
2 1 (1.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Simulink
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.41%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (5.56%) SPSS
4 2 (3.70%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Orchestrade
1 1 (1.85%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.56%) AWS
2 2 (3.70%) Azure
2 2 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (1.85%) Azure Batch
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (5.56%) Tableau
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.85%) MySQL
2 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
1 5 (9.26%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (3.70%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
3 1 (1.85%) Maven
3 1 (1.85%) MLflow
3 1 (1.85%) Subversion
General
1 20 (37.04%) Finance
2 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
3 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (20.37%) Banking
5 10 (18.52%) Front Office
6 9 (16.67%) Investment Banking
7 6 (11.11%) Aerospace
8 4 (7.41%) Automotive
8 4 (7.41%) Electronics
8 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
8 4 (7.41%) Marketing
8 4 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (5.56%) Advertising
9 3 (5.56%) Back Office
9 3 (5.56%) Games
9 3 (5.56%) Legal
9 3 (5.56%) Military
10 2 (3.70%) Law
10 2 (3.70%) Multimedia
11 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Analyst
2 12 (22.22%) Qualitative Analyst
2 12 (22.22%) Quantitative Analyst
3 9 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (7.41%) Credit Analyst
4 4 (7.41%) Data Scientist
4 4 (7.41%) Quantitative Developer
4 4 (7.41%) React Developer
5 3 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.56%) RF Engineer
5 3 (5.56%) Senior
6 2 (3.70%) E-Commerce Manager
6 2 (3.70%) E-Commerce Product Manager
6 2 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Python Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Research Software Engineer
7 1 (1.85%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) CSS
1 5 (9.26%) HTML
2 4 (7.41%) D3.js
2 4 (7.41%) React
3 2 (3.70%) NumPy
3 2 (3.70%) Pandas
3 2 (3.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (1.85%) CSS3
4 1 (1.85%) Dask
4 1 (1.85%) GStreamer
4 1 (1.85%) HTML5
4 1 (1.85%) Kafka
4 1 (1.85%) Keras
4 1 (1.85%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.85%) OSGi
4 1 (1.85%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.85%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.85%) SciPy
4 1 (1.85%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.85%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) Derivative
2 13 (24.07%) Algorithms
3 9 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (16.67%) Fixed Income
4 8 (14.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (14.81%) Hedge funds
5 6 (11.11%) Credit Derivative
6 5 (9.26%) Equities
7 4 (7.41%) Data Structures
7 4 (7.41%) Infotainment
8 3 (5.56%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
9 2 (3.70%) Mobile Games
10 1 (1.85%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (1.85%) Animation
10 1 (1.85%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (1.85%) Digital TV
10 1 (1.85%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (1.85%) VHDL
10 1 (1.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) Unix
3 4 (7.41%) Windows
4 2 (3.70%) Android
4 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 21 (38.89%) Computer Science
3 15 (27.78%) Quantitative Finance
4 14 (25.93%) Analytics
4 14 (25.93%) Statistics
5 11 (20.37%) Analytical Modelling
6 10 (18.52%) Data Science
7 9 (16.67%) Agile
7 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (14.81%) Validation
9 7 (12.96%) Machine Learning
9 7 (12.96%) Model Validation
9 7 (12.96%) Product Strategy
10 5 (9.26%) Data Analysis
10 5 (9.26%) Numerical Analysis
10 5 (9.26%) Use Case
10 5 (9.26%) Visualisation
11 4 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence
11 4 (7.41%) Kanban
11 4 (7.41%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 33 (61.11%) Python
2 22 (40.74%) C++
3 14 (25.93%) MATLAB
4 8 (14.81%) Java
4 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.81%) R
5 7 (12.96%) C#
5 7 (12.96%) SQL
6 5 (9.26%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.41%) C
7 4 (7.41%) Perl
7 4 (7.41%) VBA
8 3 (5.56%) Fortran
9 1 (1.85%) Bash
9 1 (1.85%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.85%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (81.48%) Degree
2 20 (37.04%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (9.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (5.56%) PhD
7 2 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
1 1 (1.85%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Ansible
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) Keysight
2 2 (3.70%) MathWorks
3 1 (1.85%) Adobe
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle