The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank - 76 78
Permanent jobs citing PhD 0 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 0.421% 0.114%
As % of the Qualifications category - 1.413% 0.325%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 1
Average salary - £25,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -41.17%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
286 283 308
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 26.26% 29.76% 35.08%
Number of salaries quoted 238 251 294
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £51,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
PhD
East of England

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing PhD across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Bedfordshire PhD Jobs Demand Trend

PhD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PhD across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire PhD Salary Trend

PhD
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing PhD 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PhD.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 5 (100.00%) Physics
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
1 5 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing PhD also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited PhD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) WPF
1 5 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 5 (100.00%) jQuery
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 5 (100.00%) Physics
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree