PhD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 428 553
Rank change year-on-year +126 +125 -113
Contract jobs citing PhD 39 40 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.95% 0.63% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 39
10th Percentile £415 £475 £445
25th Percentile £545 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £579 £590
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -1.86% +26.88%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £640
90th Percentile £815 - £753
UK median daily rate £595 £795 £600
% change year-on-year -25.16% +32.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £81.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £83.31
75th Percentile - - £84.97
90th Percentile £73.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £20.47 £48.50
% change year-on-year +217.54% -57.79% +15.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,100 6,366 8,706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.37% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 4,286 6,114
10th Percentile £331 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 275 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.13 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.68 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +32.56% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.44
90th Percentile £83.20 £83.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

PhD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PhD trend for jobs with a WFH option

PhD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PhD.

PhD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PhD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PhD over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

PhD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PhD
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PhD.

PhD hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) SAS
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) GCP
2 2 (5.13%) Vertex AI
3 1 (2.56%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Big Data
1 1 (2.56%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.56%) KDB
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Subversion
3 1 (2.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (58.97%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Front Office
3 4 (10.26%) Aerospace
3 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Developer
2 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Architect
4 4 (10.26%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Data Scientist
5 3 (7.69%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Software Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Blockchain Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Quantitative Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Quantitative Risk Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Risk Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) C# WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) DirectX
1 3 (7.69%) OpenGL
1 3 (7.69%) OpenGL ES
1 3 (7.69%) Pandas
1 3 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 3 (7.69%) TensorFlow
1 3 (7.69%) Vulkan
2 2 (5.13%) scikit-learn
2 2 (5.13%) Swagger
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.56%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 1 (2.56%) NumPy
3 1 (2.56%) Silverlight
3 1 (2.56%) WCF
3 1 (2.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.26%) Device Driver
3 3 (7.69%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (7.69%) Ray Tracing
4 2 (5.13%) Blockchain
4 2 (5.13%) Derivative
4 2 (5.13%) Multi-touch
5 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.56%) Equities
5 1 (2.56%) FMCG
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Android
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (84.62%) Computer Science
2 18 (46.15%) Machine Learning
3 15 (38.46%) Collaborative Culture
4 14 (35.90%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (30.77%) Decision-Making
7 11 (28.21%) Data Governance
7 11 (28.21%) Data Lineage
8 9 (23.08%) Mathematics
8 9 (23.08%) Software Engineering
8 9 (23.08%) Validation
9 8 (20.51%) Agile
10 7 (17.95%) Statistics
11 6 (15.38%) Data Science
12 4 (10.26%) Data Analysis
12 4 (10.26%) Fintech
12 4 (10.26%) Quantitative Finance
12 4 (10.26%) Regtech
12 4 (10.26%) Signal Processing
12 4 (10.26%) Software Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) Python
2 13 (33.33%) SQL
3 12 (30.77%) C++
3 12 (30.77%) Java
4 7 (17.95%) C
5 6 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 5 (12.82%) C#
6 5 (12.82%) R
7 4 (10.26%) Assembly Language
7 4 (10.26%) MATLAB
8 2 (5.13%) Scala
9 1 (2.56%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (100.00%) Degree
2 36 (92.31%) Master's Degree
3 7 (17.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (10.26%) MBA
5 2 (5.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Dodd-Frank
1 4 (10.26%) JTAG
1 4 (10.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (10.26%) Firmware
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (2.56%) CA
1 1 (2.56%) Google
1 1 (2.56%) IBM
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle