Edinburgh PhD Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs within the Edinburgh region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Andover Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chepstow Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnborough Farnham Guildford Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Inverness Kent Leicestershire London Maidenhead Manchester Melton Mowbray Middlesex Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury Newport North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Southampton St Asaph Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	85
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	13
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.738 %	2.658 %
Salaries quoted	7	11
Average minimum salary	£26,500	£29,909
Average salary	£28,500	£36,455
% change on same period last year	-21.82 %
Average maximum salary	£30,500	£43,000
UK excluding London average salary	£35,887	£36,315
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Qualifications Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	214	489
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.210 %
Salaries quoted	139	329
Average minimum salary	£32,944	£29,501
Average salary	£36,324	£32,584
% change on same period last year	+11.47 %
Average maximum salary	£39,703	£35,668
UK excluding London average salary	£37,875	£38,420
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
PhD Scotland

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing PhD across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PhD across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 5 (62.50 %) Mathematics 2 4 (50.00 %) Computer Science 3 3 (37.50 %) Physics 3 3 (37.50 %) Chemistry 3 3 (37.50 %) Chemicals 3 3 (37.50 %) Java 3 3 (37.50 %) Perl 3 3 (37.50 %) PHP 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 2 (25.00 %) Finance 5 1 (12.50 %) Degree 5 1 (12.50 %) C 5 1 (12.50 %) C++ 5 1 (12.50 %) .NET 5 1 (12.50 %) Oracle

5 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 5 1 (12.50 %) Education

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 1 (12.50 %) .NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Chemicals 2 2 (25.00 %) Finance 3 1 (12.50 %) Education	Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Developer 1 2 (25.00 %) Java Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Junior Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Junior Java Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 5 (62.50 %) Mathematics 2 4 (50.00 %) Computer Science 3 3 (37.50 %) Physics 3 3 (37.50 %) Chemistry	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) Java 1 3 (37.50 %) Perl 1 3 (37.50 %) PHP 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) C 2 1 (12.50 %) C++
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle