The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 24 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 77 80 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs citing PhD 8 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.892% 0.275% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.128% 0.664% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 0
Average salary £45,000 £27,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
376 301 125
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 41.92% 41.35% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 266 288 123
Average salary £42,500 £39,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.97% +11.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
PhD
Surrey

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford PhD Salary Trend

PhD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PhD across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford PhD Salary Histogram

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) Degree
2 10 (83.33%) Mathematics
2 10 (83.33%) Physics
3 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
4 6 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) ITIL
4 6 (50.00%) UML
4 6 (50.00%) RUP
4 6 (50.00%) PRINCE
4 6 (50.00%) Smartcard
4 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (50.00%) Law
4 6 (50.00%) Programme Management
4 6 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
4 6 (50.00%) PKI
5 5 (41.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 5 (41.67%) VHDL
5 5 (41.67%) C
5 5 (41.67%) C++
6 3 (25.00%) Image Processing
6 3 (25.00%) Embedded C
6 3 (25.00%) Embedded C++
6 3 (25.00%) Firmware
6 3 (25.00%) Linux
6 3 (25.00%) Device Driver
7 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (8.333%) Web Development

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 (8.333%) HTML
1 1 (8.333%) .NET
1 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 1 (8.333%) CSS
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) XSLT
1 1 (8.333%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) IT Consultant
1 6 (50.00%) Consultant
1 6 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
2 5 (41.67%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Developer
3 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Graduate
3 1 (8.333%) Graduate Hardware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Mathematics
1 10 (83.33%) Physics
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (50.00%) Smartcard
3 6 (50.00%) PKI
4 5 (41.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 5 (41.67%) VHDL
5 3 (25.00%) Firmware
5 3 (25.00%) Device Driver
6 1 (8.333%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL
1 6 (50.00%) UML
1 6 (50.00%) RUP
1 6 (50.00%) PRINCE
1 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 6 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Image Processing
3 1 (8.333%) Web Development
3 1 (8.333%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (8.333%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C
1 5 (41.67%) C++
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 3 (25.00%) Embedded C++
3 1 (8.333%) C#
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (83.33%) Degree
3 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Guildford
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