PhD Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 17 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PhD 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £553 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - -
75th Percentile £610 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £595 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -25.63% +23.08% +13.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 616 667 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.05% 27.28% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 411 510
10th Percentile £264 £305 £293
25th Percentile £362 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £464
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +13.21% +14.51%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £654
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 17
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.30 £11.05
25th Percentile £22.16 £13.91 £13.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +15.74% +3.85%
75th Percentile £49.38 £26.75 £20.51
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.90 £23.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £35.10
% change year-on-year -20.00% +42.45% -9.82%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the West Midlands

PhD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for PhD in the West Midlands

PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for PhD in the West Midlands

PhD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
Worcestershire - 3 £590 -
Coventry - 1 £550 - 5
PhD
England

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Dask
1 1 (25.00%) Keras
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) Pandas
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (100.00%) Physics
2 3 (75.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree