PhD Jobs in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England region.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 207 172 199
Rank change year-on-year
-35 +27
Permanent jobs citing PhD 55 101 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.663% 1.152% 0.757%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.253% 3.757% 2.334%
Number of salaries quoted 53 61 64
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £65,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.35%
All Qualifications
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 2441 2688 3042
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.42% 30.66% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2020 2216 2674
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
PhD
England

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England PhD Salary Trend

PhD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PhD across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England PhD Salary Histogram

PhD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire +25 35 £37,500 +7.14%
Cambridgeshire -44 20 £38,500 +10.00%
PhD
England

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 56 (53.85%) Degree
2 54 (51.92%) C++
3 48 (46.15%) Computer Science
4 45 (43.27%) C
5 36 (34.62%) Mathematics
6 27 (25.96%) Signal Processing
7 24 (23.08%) Physics
7 24 (23.08%) Java
8 22 (21.15%) C#
9 17 (16.35%) MATLAB
10 16 (15.38%) LabVIEW
11 15 (14.42%) SQL
12 14 (13.46%) Windows
13 13 (12.50%) Linux
13 13 (12.50%) Python
14 11 (10.58%) Postgraduate
14 11 (10.58%) .NET
14 11 (10.58%) Oracle
15 10 (9.615%) STL
15 10 (9.615%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 9 (8.654%) Unit Testing
16 9 (8.654%) Semantic Web
16 9 (8.654%) Perl
16 9 (8.654%) MVC
16 9 (8.654%) Electronics
16 9 (8.654%) Telecoms
17 8 (7.692%) Visual Studio
17 8 (7.692%) Fortran
17 8 (7.692%) Chemistry
17 8 (7.692%) Digital Signal Processing

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 11 (10.58%) .NET
2 10 (9.615%) STL
2 10 (9.615%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (6.731%) jQuery
3 7 (6.731%) Web Services
4 5 (4.808%) HTML5
4 5 (4.808%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (4.808%) WPF
4 5 (4.808%) Silverlight
4 5 (4.808%) ASP.NET
4 5 (4.808%) HTML
4 5 (4.808%) Spring
5 4 (3.846%) Hibernate
5 4 (3.846%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (3.846%) J2EE
5 4 (3.846%) XML
5 4 (3.846%) Swing
5 4 (3.846%) JSON
5 4 (3.846%) RESTful
6 3 (2.885%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.731%) Apache
2 5 (4.808%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.846%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 6 (5.769%) Simulink
2 2 (1.923%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.962%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.846%) Wireless
2 3 (2.885%) LTE
2 3 (2.885%) OFDM
2 3 (2.885%) MIMO
2 3 (2.885%) 3GPP
2 3 (2.885%) UMTS
2 3 (2.885%) 3G
3 1 (0.962%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.731%) MySQL
2 5 (4.808%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (4.808%) DB2
3 3 (2.885%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.962%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) LabVIEW
2 8 (7.692%) Visual Studio
3 7 (6.731%) Subversion
4 5 (4.808%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (3.846%) Maven
5 4 (3.846%) Git (software)
6 1 (0.962%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.962%) NetBeans
General
1 9 (8.654%) Electronics
1 9 (8.654%) Telecoms
2 5 (4.808%) Avionics
2 5 (4.808%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (1.923%) Games
3 2 (1.923%) Legal
4 1 (0.962%) Retail
4 1 (0.962%) Marketing
4 1 (0.962%) Aerospace
4 1 (0.962%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 56 (53.85%) Developer
2 20 (19.23%) Software Engineer
3 15 (14.42%) C++ Developer
4 11 (10.58%) Software Developer
5 10 (9.615%) C# Developer
6 9 (8.654%) Graduate
7 8 (7.692%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.692%) Graduate Developer
8 7 (6.731%) Sales Engineer
8 7 (6.731%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (5.769%) Electronics Engineer
9 6 (5.769%) Pre Sales Engineer
10 5 (4.808%) C++/C# Developer
10 5 (4.808%) C# Application Developer
10 5 (4.808%) Senior C++ Applications Developer
10 5 (4.808%) Senior C# Application Developer
10 5 (4.808%) Senior C# Developer
10 5 (4.808%) Senior Applications Developer
10 5 (4.808%) Senior C++ Developer
10 5 (4.808%) C++ Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 48 (46.15%) Computer Science
2 36 (34.62%) Mathematics
3 24 (23.08%) Physics
4 9 (8.654%) Semantic Web
5 8 (7.692%) Chemistry
6 6 (5.769%) Machine Learning
7 5 (4.808%) Human Factors
7 5 (4.808%) Informatics
8 4 (3.846%) Speech Recognition
9 2 (1.923%) IVR
9 2 (1.923%) VHDL
9 2 (1.923%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.923%) Open Source
10 1 (0.962%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.962%) Java Card
10 1 (0.962%) Robotics
10 1 (0.962%) Biometrics
10 1 (0.962%) Smartcard
10 1 (0.962%) ASIC
10 1 (0.962%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.46%) Windows
2 13 (12.50%) Linux
3 6 (5.769%) UNIX
4 3 (2.885%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.885%) Android
5 2 (1.923%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.923%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.923%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (25.96%) Signal Processing
2 9 (8.654%) Unit Testing
2 9 (8.654%) MVC
3 8 (7.692%) Digital Signal Processing
4 7 (6.731%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (5.769%) OO
5 6 (5.769%) CRM
6 5 (4.808%) Analytics
6 5 (4.808%) Load Balancing
6 5 (4.808%) Image Processing
6 5 (4.808%) Multithreading
6 5 (4.808%) Project Management
7 4 (3.846%) Information Management
7 4 (3.846%) TDD
7 4 (3.846%) Data Modelling
8 3 (2.885%) 3D Modelling
8 3 (2.885%) CAD
8 3 (2.885%) CAE
8 3 (2.885%) Software Engineering
8 3 (2.885%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 54 (51.92%) C++
2 45 (43.27%) C
3 24 (23.08%) Java
4 22 (21.15%) C#
5 17 (16.35%) MATLAB
6 15 (14.42%) SQL
7 13 (12.50%) Python
8 9 (8.654%) Perl
9 8 (7.692%) Fortran
10 5 (4.808%) C++/CLI
10 5 (4.808%) JavaScript
11 4 (3.846%) Ruby
11 4 (3.846%) PHP
11 4 (3.846%) Lisp
12 3 (2.885%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.962%) Assembly Language
13 1 (0.962%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.962%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 56 (53.85%) Degree
2 11 (10.58%) Postgraduate
3 2 (1.923%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.923%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.923%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.923%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Oracle
2 4 (3.846%) VMware
3 2 (1.923%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.962%) Altera
C++ Java C# Maths Physics Graduate CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
C#, C++ or Java developer with Computer Science or Maths / Physics background needed in Cambridge... Desired: Maths, Physics, Phd, Algorithms, Apply in confidence now for detailed job specification.
Edgar Cowen
Salary: Excellent Starting Salary + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Applied Physicist / Engineer (Electromagnetism) - MSc / PhD, electromagnetism, client-facing, FEA, numerical methods / modelling, Cambridge, to £35k DOE
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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C C++ C# Maths Software Algorithm Development Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Sales Manager - Engineering, Science, Technical Sales, Cambridge, to £85k
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Embedded Software Engineer - C / C++, Assembler, Connectivity, Scripting, Network Protocols, Cambridge, £Competitive + Bonuses + Benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
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Computational Scientist - Image Analysis / Statistical Inference; Algorithms; C / C++ / C#; South Cambridge, £Excellent + Benefits
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Algorithm Developer - 1st / 2.1, C++, STL, Perl / Python, Algorithms, Statistics, Maths, Cambridge, £Excellent + Bonus + Benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
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Salary: £Excellent + Bonus + Benefits
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South Cambs, East Anglia
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Salary: Excellent + bens
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Electronics / Firmware Engineer - Digital, Analogue, Firmware
Cambridgeshire
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Cambridge
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Senior Wireless Software Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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C++ Developer ( Junior / Graduate C++ STL Boost )
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Software Group Leader - Embedded, Wireless Protocols, RF / Mixed Sig
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Client Liaison Scientist - Bioinformatics / Mathematics; PhD; Genetics / Sequencing; Cambridge, £Excellent + benefits
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Cambridge, East Anglia
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Graduate Electronics Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Graduate Electronics Engineer - PCB, Electronics, VHDL, Verilog, FPGA, ASIC DSP, Cambridge, to £35k
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ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £35k
Posted: 20 May 2013
Graduate Electronics Engineer - PCB, Electronics, VHDL, Verilog, FPGA
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Digital Design Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Digital Design Engineer - Electronics, PCB Layout, Verilog, VHDL
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
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Materials Information Analyst - Excel, VBA, Data & Modelling skills, Top academics needed, Cambridge, to £32k + benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
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IC Design Engineer - CMOS, MSc / PhD, circuit simulations, power electronics, green, ISO9000, Cambridge, £Junior to Principal
Cambridge
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ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Junior to Principal
Posted: 3 May 2013
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