The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 104 134 161
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +27
Permanent jobs citing PhD 36 16 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.460% 0.635% 0.148%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.694% 2.204% 0.471%
Number of salaries quoted 36 14 5
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £22,900
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £37,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
767 726 1062
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 31.12% 28.82% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 602 585 881
Average salary £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,500 £29,000
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
East of England

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire PhD Salary Trend

PhD
Salary Histogram

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

Hertfordshire PhD Salary Histogram

PhD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Borehamwood -2 22 £37,500 -
Hemel Hempstead - 4 £32,500 -
Welwyn Garden City - 4 £50,000 -
Stevenage +12 2 £45,000 -
St Albans - 2 £55,000 -
PhD
East of England

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 30 (53.57%) C++
2 27 (48.21%) Degree
3 26 (46.43%) C
4 20 (35.71%) Computer Science
5 18 (32.14%) Signal Processing
6 17 (30.36%) Physics
7 16 (28.57%) LabVIEW
8 12 (21.43%) Mathematics
9 10 (17.86%) Java
9 10 (17.86%) Python
10 9 (16.07%) Electronics
10 9 (16.07%) Telecoms
10 9 (16.07%) Fortran
10 9 (16.07%) Chemistry
11 7 (12.50%) MATLAB
12 6 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (10.71%) CRM
13 5 (8.929%) Machine Learning
13 5 (8.929%) Linux
13 5 (8.929%) JavaScript
13 5 (8.929%) Perl
13 5 (8.929%) HTML
13 5 (8.929%) SQL
13 5 (8.929%) Project Management
14 4 (7.143%) C#
14 4 (7.143%) PHP
14 4 (7.143%) XML
14 4 (7.143%) Data Modelling
14 4 (7.143%) Speech Recognition
15 3 (5.357%) Subversion

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (8.929%) HTML
2 4 (7.143%) XML
3 2 (3.571%) VXML
3 2 (3.571%) WSDL
3 2 (3.571%) COM
3 2 (3.571%) DCOM
3 2 (3.571%) CSS
3 2 (3.571%) .NET
3 2 (3.571%) MFC
3 2 (3.571%) XSLT
3 2 (3.571%) SOAP
3 2 (3.571%) Web Services
3 2 (3.571%) Ajax
3 2 (3.571%) REST
3 2 (3.571%) jQuery
4 1 (1.786%) OpenGL ES
4 1 (1.786%) Spring
4 1 (1.786%) Struts
4 1 (1.786%) JSP
4 1 (1.786%) OpenGL
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.357%) Apache
2 1 (1.786%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.571%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.786%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.786%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.357%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.571%) MySQL
3 1 (1.786%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 16 (28.57%) LabVIEW
2 3 (5.357%) Subversion
2 3 (5.357%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.786%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.786%) NetBeans
General
1 9 (16.07%) Electronics
1 9 (16.07%) Telecoms
2 6 (10.71%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (3.571%) Legal
4 1 (1.786%) Retail
4 1 (1.786%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Developer
2 16 (28.57%) Software Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Sales Engineer
3 7 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Electronics Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Pre Sales Engineer
5 3 (5.357%) Software Developer
6 2 (3.571%) C++ Developer
6 2 (3.571%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (3.571%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.571%) C++ Software Developer
6 2 (3.571%) RF Engineer
7 1 (1.786%) Research Engineer
7 1 (1.786%) Insight Analyst
7 1 (1.786%) Marketing Analyst
7 1 (1.786%) Data Analyst
7 1 (1.786%) Java Developer
7 1 (1.786%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 17 (30.36%) Physics
3 12 (21.43%) Mathematics
4 9 (16.07%) Chemistry
5 5 (8.929%) Machine Learning
6 4 (7.143%) Speech Recognition
7 2 (3.571%) IVR
7 2 (3.571%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.571%) Open Source
8 1 (1.786%) Robotics
8 1 (1.786%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.929%) Linux
2 2 (3.571%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (3.571%) Windows XP
2 2 (3.571%) Windows
2 2 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.786%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.14%) Signal Processing
2 6 (10.71%) CRM
3 5 (8.929%) Project Management
4 4 (7.143%) Data Modelling
5 2 (3.571%) Validation
5 2 (3.571%) Information Security
5 2 (3.571%) OOD
5 2 (3.571%) OO
5 2 (3.571%) WFM
5 2 (3.571%) Software Testing
5 2 (3.571%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) C++
2 26 (46.43%) C
3 10 (17.86%) Java
3 10 (17.86%) Python
4 9 (16.07%) Fortran
5 7 (12.50%) MATLAB
6 5 (8.929%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.929%) Perl
6 5 (8.929%) SQL
7 4 (7.143%) C#
7 4 (7.143%) PHP
8 1 (1.786%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.786%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.786%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 27 (48.21%) Degree
2 2 (3.571%) ISEB
2 2 (3.571%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.786%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.571%) ISO 9001
1 2 (3.571%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (3.571%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.786%) Altera
2 1 (1.786%) Oracle
Welwyn Garden City, Herts
Operate as part of a scrum team following an Agile methodology... Epics and User Stories 2... UAT test scenarios and scripts 4... - Minimum of BSc or a BA (...
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Salary: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013