PhD Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 426 431
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing PhD 451 633 1,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.72% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% 2.18% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 319 249 397
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,019 £41,841
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,875 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £137,500
UK median annual salary £63,750 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +7.14% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,459 29,017 35,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.31% 32.86% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 15,748 13,231 16,717
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,228 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in England.

Salary trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in England

PhD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South East -17 164 £58,000 -3.33% 86
London +88 153 £90,000 +9.09% 185
East of England -58 64 £70,000 -6.67% 51
North of England +36 34 £80,000 -8.57% 28
North West +15 22 £80,000 -8.57% 22
Midlands 0 17 £55,000 -4.35% 33
South West -47 16 £68,750 +50.27% 22
West Midlands +23 12 £55,000 - 24
Yorkshire +39 7 £37,500 - 5
East Midlands -12 5 £32,500 -43.48% 9
North East - 5 £55,000 - 1
PhD
UK

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.89%) SAS
4 3 (0.67%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.33%) Simulink
2 6 (1.33%) Stateflow
3 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Blender
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 29 (6.43%) AWS
2 21 (4.66%) Azure
3 19 (4.21%) GCP
4 11 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.33%) GitHub
6 4 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.89%) Dagster
6 4 (0.89%) SaaS
7 3 (0.67%) Serverless
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (0.44%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.44%) OCI
8 2 (0.44%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.44%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.22%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.22%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.67%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (0.67%) Wireless
2 2 (0.44%) Internet
2 2 (0.44%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.10%) Tableau
2 11 (2.44%) Big Data
2 11 (2.44%) Power BI
3 10 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.33%) Hadoop
4 6 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.11%) Neo4j
6 4 (0.89%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.44%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.44%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.22%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.22%) Metadata
9 1 (0.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (7.10%) Git
2 6 (1.33%) GitLab
2 6 (1.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.33%) JUnit
3 5 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
4 4 (0.89%) JIRA
4 4 (0.89%) Mockito
4 4 (0.89%) Snakemake
5 3 (0.67%) CMake
5 3 (0.67%) TestRail
6 2 (0.44%) GDB
6 2 (0.44%) MLflow
6 2 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.44%) TensorBoard
7 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
General
1 140 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 92 (20.40%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (12.86%) Finance
4 55 (12.20%) Pharmaceutical
5 23 (5.10%) Electronics
5 23 (5.10%) Marketing
6 18 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (3.99%) Law
7 13 (2.88%) Legal
8 12 (2.66%) Health Technology
9 9 (2.00%) Retail
10 8 (1.77%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.55%) Games
12 6 (1.33%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.33%) Banking
12 6 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Front Office
14 4 (0.89%) Aeronautics
14 4 (0.89%) Automotive
14 4 (0.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 96 (21.29%) Senior
2 74 (16.41%) Data Scientist
3 62 (13.75%) Software Engineer
4 57 (12.64%) Developer
5 47 (10.42%) Senior Data Scientist
6 35 (7.76%) Analyst
6 35 (7.76%) Graduate
7 21 (4.66%) Lead
8 20 (4.43%) Software Developer
9 17 (3.77%) Junior
10 15 (3.33%) Lead Data Scientist
11 14 (3.10%) Development Manager
11 14 (3.10%) Quantitative Developer
11 14 (3.10%) Senior Developer
12 13 (2.88%) Business Manager
13 12 (2.66%) Business Development Manager
13 12 (2.66%) Physicist
14 11 (2.44%) Computer Scientist
14 11 (2.44%) Principal Data Scientist
14 11 (2.44%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (10.64%) PyTorch
2 40 (8.87%) TensorFlow
3 22 (4.88%) OpenMP
4 16 (3.55%) scikit-learn
5 14 (3.10%) OpenACC
6 13 (2.88%) .NET
6 13 (2.88%) NumPy
7 10 (2.22%) Kafka
8 7 (1.55%) HTML
8 7 (1.55%) Pandas
9 6 (1.33%) Keras
9 6 (1.33%) OpenCL
9 6 (1.33%) REST
9 6 (1.33%) Vulkan
10 5 (1.11%) HTML5
11 4 (0.89%) Apache Beam
11 4 (0.89%) OpenGL
11 4 (0.89%) React
11 4 (0.89%) Rendezvous
11 4 (0.89%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 176 (39.02%) Algorithms
2 54 (11.97%) Life Science
3 33 (7.32%) CUDA
4 28 (6.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 28 (6.21%) Data Structures
5 22 (4.88%) FPGA
6 18 (3.99%) VHDL
7 16 (3.55%) Client/Server
8 14 (3.10%) Biopharmaceutical
8 14 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (2.66%) Analogue Electronics
9 12 (2.66%) Embedded Systems
9 12 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.44%) Hedge funds
11 9 (2.00%) Taxonomies
12 7 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.33%) Robotics
14 5 (1.11%) Blog
14 5 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 4 (0.89%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.53%) Linux
2 32 (7.10%) Unix
3 2 (0.44%) Android
3 2 (0.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (48.12%) Computer Science
2 191 (42.35%) Mathematics
3 150 (33.26%) Machine Learning
4 139 (30.82%) Data Science
5 138 (30.60%) Physics
6 112 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
7 106 (23.50%) Software Engineering
8 104 (23.06%) Artificial Intelligence
9 82 (18.18%) Statistics
10 60 (13.30%) Analytics
11 49 (10.86%) Agile
11 49 (10.86%) Decision-Making
12 44 (9.76%) Biotechnology
12 44 (9.76%) Parallel Programming
13 41 (9.09%) Deep Learning
14 37 (8.20%) Natural Language Processing
14 37 (8.20%) Visualisation
15 35 (7.76%) Chemistry
15 35 (7.76%) Data Analysis
15 35 (7.76%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 255 (56.54%) Python
2 98 (21.73%) C++
3 89 (19.73%) C
4 71 (15.74%) SQL
5 66 (14.63%) Java
6 61 (13.53%) Fortran
7 56 (12.42%) R
8 52 (11.53%) C#
9 30 (6.65%) MATLAB
10 20 (4.43%) Bash
11 17 (3.77%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.33%) Perl
13 4 (0.89%) AWK
13 4 (0.89%) sed
13 4 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.89%) VB
14 3 (0.67%) C-shell
14 3 (0.67%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.67%) Rust
15 2 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 440 (97.56%) Degree
2 292 (64.75%) Master's Degree
3 54 (11.97%) Security Cleared
4 47 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.88%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.21%) MBA
7 13 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.22%) CFA
8 10 (2.22%) CIMA
9 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.44%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.44%) OSCE
10 2 (0.44%) OSCP
11 1 (0.22%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.22%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.22%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.22%) QA
3 9 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (2.00%) GDPR
4 2 (0.44%) ECSS
4 2 (0.44%) GLP
4 2 (0.44%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 23 (5.10%) Docker
2 2 (0.44%) IAG
3 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.00%) Terraform
3 8 (1.77%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.11%) Argo
5 4 (0.89%) Ansible
6 2 (0.44%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 25 (5.54%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.22%) OpenAI
3 8 (1.77%) Google
4 6 (1.33%) NVIDIA
5 4 (0.89%) ANSYS
6 3 (0.67%) Databricks
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle
7 2 (0.44%) SAP
8 1 (0.22%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.22%) Interwoven
8 1 (0.22%) Qubit
8 1 (0.22%) Samsung
8 1 (0.22%) YouTube