PhD Jobs in the East Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 165 181
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 -36
Permanent jobs citing PhD 7 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.16% 0.28% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.74% 0.77% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 3
10th Percentile - - £26,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £53,750 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +105.36% +11.12%
75th Percentile £48,596 £61,250 £28,375
90th Percentile £52,193 - £28,600
England median annual salary £61,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% +7.14% +6.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 950 1,044 1,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 22.00% 36.49% 31.75%
Number of salaries quoted 562 311 486
10th Percentile £25,025 £25,375 £23,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,375 £27,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £47,500 £44,227
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +7.40% +4.06%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the East Midlands

PhD
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for PhD in the East Midlands

PhD
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in the East Midlands

PhD
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 3 £32,500 - 8
Leicestershire - 2 £49,990 - 3
PhD
England

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) CMake
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Mathematician
3 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Research Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Research Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Hugging Face
1 2 (28.57%) OpenACC
1 2 (28.57%) OpenCL
1 2 (28.57%) OpenMP
1 2 (28.57%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
2 3 (42.86%) Physics
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Build Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (28.57%) Open Source
3 2 (28.57%) Parallel Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Speech Recognition
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) MATLAB
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker