Physics Contracts
 
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 across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Physics over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Physics
Rank 460 521 522
Rank change year-on-year
+61 +1
Contract jobs citing Physics 81 44 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.175% 0.075% 0.103%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.660% 0.307% 0.366%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 22 25
Average daily rate £550 £350 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £450 £662
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £350 £325
% change year-on-year
+18.57% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
Average hourly rate - £41.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +31.74%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £41.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- +66.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12277 14313 17463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.50% 24.52% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7372 8397 10373
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 663 738
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £45.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%

Physics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Physics Daily Rate Trend

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Physics within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Physics Hourly Rate Trend

Physics
Top 17 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +76 73 £550 +57.14%
London +91 65 £550 +46.66%
City of London +49 30 £525 +50.00%
Canary Wharf - 9 £600 -
South East +7 5 £330 -2.94%
Scotland -8 5 - -
Glasgow - 5 - -
East of England +11 3 - -
Hampshire -1 3 £330 -
Hertfordshire +1 2 - -
Royston - 2 - -
Wales +13 1 £500 -4.76%
Cambridgeshire +12 1 - -
Surrey +10 1 - -
Middlesex +10 1 £615 -
South Wales +1 1 £500 -4.76%
Cardiff - 1 £500 -

Physics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 150 (81.97%) Mathematics
2 130 (71.04%) Computer Science
3 125 (68.31%) Degree
4 88 (48.09%) C++
5 52 (28.42%) Finance
6 47 (25.68%) C#
6 47 (25.68%) Java
6 47 (25.68%) Software Engineering
7 40 (21.86%) Banking
8 38 (20.77%) SQL
8 38 (20.77%) Windows
8 38 (20.77%) Linux
9 36 (19.67%) PhD
10 33 (18.03%) Statistics
11 32 (17.49%) Multithreading
12 31 (16.94%) Analytics
13 29 (15.85%) .NET
14 28 (15.30%) Front Office
15 24 (13.11%) Microsoft
16 23 (12.57%) OO
17 22 (12.02%) Oracle
18 20 (10.93%) VC++
18 20 (10.93%) Investment Banking
19 19 (10.38%) Data Analysis
19 19 (10.38%) Data Mining
19 19 (10.38%) Big Data
19 19 (10.38%) Hadoop
20 18 (9.836%) Python
20 18 (9.836%) Risk Management
21 17 (9.290%) Scrum

Physics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (15.85%) .NET
2 16 (8.743%) MapReduce
3 13 (7.104%) XML
4 11 (6.011%) WPF
4 11 (6.011%) .NET Framework
5 9 (4.918%) XSLT
5 9 (4.918%) Silverlight
6 8 (4.372%) WCF
6 8 (4.372%) ASP
7 7 (3.825%) CORBA
8 6 (3.279%) Spring
8 6 (3.279%) JMS
8 6 (3.279%) ASP.NET
9 5 (2.732%) Web Services
10 4 (2.186%) Node.js
10 4 (2.186%) LINQ
10 4 (2.186%) JRules
10 4 (2.186%) Middleware
10 4 (2.186%) EJB
10 4 (2.186%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.743%) Apache Pig
2 15 (8.197%) SAS
3 8 (4.372%) Apache
4 4 (2.186%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.639%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.639%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.093%) Rendezvous
7 1 (0.546%) IIS
7 1 (0.546%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.546%) ESB
7 1 (0.546%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.546%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 9 (4.918%) SPSS
2 6 (3.279%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.639%) Maya
4 2 (1.093%) MS Office
5 1 (0.546%) MS Project
5 1 (0.546%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.546%) Simulink
5 1 (0.546%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.546%) Pro/ENGINEER
5 1 (0.546%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (2.732%) SunGard APT
2 3 (1.639%) FastVal
3 2 (1.093%) Bond Adapt
3 2 (1.093%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.546%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.546%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.825%) HTTP
2 6 (3.279%) 3GPP
3 5 (2.732%) SAN
3 5 (2.732%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (2.186%) SNMP
5 2 (1.093%) LTE
5 2 (1.093%) BSS
5 2 (1.093%) 2G
5 2 (1.093%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.546%) GSM
6 1 (0.546%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.38%) Data Mining
1 19 (10.38%) Big Data
1 19 (10.38%) Hadoop
2 16 (8.743%) Apache Hive
2 16 (8.743%) Apache Cassandra
2 16 (8.743%) HBase
2 16 (8.743%) Mahout
3 12 (6.557%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.011%) RDBMS
4 11 (6.011%) NoSQL
5 10 (5.464%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.372%) OLAP
7 5 (2.732%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (2.186%) Oracle 11g
8 4 (2.186%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (1.639%) GIS
9 3 (1.639%) KDB
9 3 (1.639%) MarkLogic
10 2 (1.093%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.093%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (8.743%) Maven
2 13 (7.104%) TeamCity
3 10 (5.464%) LLVM
3 10 (5.464%) Artifactory
4 6 (3.279%) Ant
5 5 (2.732%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (2.186%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
6 4 (2.186%) Telelogic TAU
6 4 (2.186%) Rational Rose
7 3 (1.639%) JUnit
7 3 (1.639%) JIRA
7 3 (1.639%) jMock
7 3 (1.639%) Selenium
7 3 (1.639%) Xcode
7 3 (1.639%) EasyMock
8 2 (1.093%) Subversion
8 2 (1.093%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.546%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.546%) NUnit
9 1 (0.546%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 52 (28.42%) Finance
2 40 (21.86%) Banking
3 28 (15.30%) Front Office
4 20 (10.93%) Investment Banking
5 11 (6.011%) Games
6 8 (4.372%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.825%) Retail
8 6 (3.279%) Electronics
9 5 (2.732%) Marketing
10 4 (2.186%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.639%) Automotive
11 3 (1.639%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.639%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.093%) Back Office
13 1 (0.546%) Legal
13 1 (0.546%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.546%) Military
13 1 (0.546%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 111 (60.66%) Developer
2 45 (24.59%) C++ Developer
3 24 (13.11%) Analyst
4 19 (10.38%) Quantitative Developer
5 18 (9.836%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 17 (9.290%) C# Developer
7 12 (6.557%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.464%) Programmer
9 9 (4.918%) Architect
9 9 (4.918%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.918%) Data Scientist
10 8 (4.372%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.825%) Software Developer
11 7 (3.825%) C# .NET Developer
11 7 (3.825%) Hadoop Developer
11 7 (3.825%) Research Engineer
12 6 (3.279%) C++ Programmer
13 5 (2.732%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.732%) Games Developer
13 5 (2.732%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 150 (81.97%) Mathematics
2 130 (71.04%) Computer Science
3 33 (18.03%) Statistics
4 17 (9.290%) Derivative
5 15 (8.197%) Social Network
6 14 (7.650%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 13 (7.104%) Fixed Income
8 12 (6.557%) Credit Risk
8 12 (6.557%) Market Risk
9 10 (5.464%) Machine Learning
9 10 (5.464%) Economics
10 8 (4.372%) Data Integration
11 7 (3.825%) Animation
12 6 (3.279%) Visualisation
12 6 (3.279%) Grid Computing
12 6 (3.279%) Neural Network
13 5 (2.732%) Management Information System
14 4 (2.186%) iPad
14 4 (2.186%) Hedge funds
14 4 (2.186%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 38 (20.77%) Windows
1 38 (20.77%) Linux
2 12 (6.557%) UNIX
3 4 (2.186%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.68%) Software Engineering
2 32 (17.49%) Multithreading
3 31 (16.94%) Analytics
4 23 (12.57%) OO
5 19 (10.38%) Data Analysis
6 18 (9.836%) Risk Management
7 17 (9.290%) Scrum
8 16 (8.743%) Data Modelling
9 14 (7.650%) Agile Software Development
10 12 (6.557%) Business Analysis
11 10 (5.464%) TDD
11 10 (5.464%) Asset Management
12 8 (4.372%) Use Case
13 7 (3.825%) UML
13 7 (3.825%) OOD
13 7 (3.825%) Service Management
13 7 (3.825%) Waterfall
13 7 (3.825%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (3.279%) Predictive Modelling
14 6 (3.279%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (48.09%) C++
2 47 (25.68%) C#
2 47 (25.68%) Java
3 38 (20.77%) SQL
4 20 (10.93%) VC++
5 18 (9.836%) Python
6 13 (7.104%) VBA
7 10 (5.464%) C
8 8 (4.372%) Scala
8 8 (4.372%) R
9 6 (3.279%) XPath
9 6 (3.279%) Ruby
9 6 (3.279%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.186%) Objective-C
10 4 (2.186%) XQuery
10 4 (2.186%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.186%) Perl
11 3 (1.639%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.639%) VB
12 2 (1.093%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 125 (68.31%) Degree
2 36 (19.67%) PhD
3 7 (3.825%) Postgraduate
4 5 (2.732%) HND
4 5 (2.732%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.186%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.639%) HNC
7 2 (1.093%) MBA
8 1 (0.546%) MCP
8 1 (0.546%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.546%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.372%) QA
2 1 (0.546%) JTAG
2 1 (0.546%) Basel III
Vendors
1 24 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.02%) Oracle
3 8 (4.372%) TIBCO
4 6 (3.279%) SunGard
5 5 (2.732%) Informatica
6 4 (2.186%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 4 (2.186%) Telelogic
7 3 (1.639%) Remedy
7 3 (1.639%) HP
7 3 (1.639%) IBM
8 2 (1.093%) WSO2
8 2 (1.093%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.093%) EMC
8 2 (1.093%) Borland
9 1 (0.546%) Sybase
9 1 (0.546%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.546%) Murex
9 1 (0.546%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.546%) Teradata
9 1 (0.546%) SIMUL8
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