The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 17 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 87 73 91
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +18
Permanent jobs citing PhD 5 20 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.473% 1.493% 0.649%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.761% 4.630% 1.976%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 7
Average salary £42,000 £34,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.52% -11.68%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.35%
All Qualifications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
284 432 506
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.87% 32.24% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 165 332 366
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,600 £27,300 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
PhD
Scotland

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh PhD Salary Trend

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 14 (73.68%) Java
2 13 (68.42%) C#
2 13 (68.42%) OO
3 11 (57.89%) C++
3 11 (57.89%) Mathematics
4 10 (52.63%) Degree
5 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
6 6 (31.58%) Physics
7 5 (26.32%) Front Office
7 5 (26.32%) Finance
7 5 (26.32%) Derivative
7 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) TDD
8 4 (21.05%) Python
8 4 (21.05%) VBA
9 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
9 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
9 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (15.79%) OOP
9 3 (15.79%) Middleware
9 3 (15.79%) Equities
9 3 (15.79%) Analytics
9 3 (15.79%) Exotic Derivative
10 2 (10.53%) Scala
10 2 (10.53%) Hedge funds
10 2 (10.53%) Wealth Management
10 2 (10.53%) Online Games
10 2 (10.53%) Games
10 2 (10.53%) Fixed Income
10 2 (10.53%) Internet

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (15.79%) Middleware
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) MySQL
General
1 5 (26.32%) Front Office
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Quantitative Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Graduate
4 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Quantitative Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Scala Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Junior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Junior
6 1 (5.263%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.263%) C++ Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Mathematics
2 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
3 6 (31.58%) Physics
4 5 (26.32%) Derivative
5 3 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (15.79%) Equities
5 3 (15.79%) Exotic Derivative
6 2 (10.53%) Fixed Income
6 2 (10.53%) Online Games
6 2 (10.53%) Hedge funds
7 1 (5.263%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) UNIX
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) OO
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 3 (15.79%) OOP
4 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Wealth Management
6 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Java
2 13 (68.42%) C#
3 11 (57.89%) C++
4 4 (21.05%) VBA
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 2 (10.53%) Scala
5 2 (10.53%) C
5 2 (10.53%) SQL
6 1 (5.263%) Perl
6 1 (5.263%) PHP
6 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.263%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
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