Oxfordshire PhD Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs within the Oxfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chepstow Chertsey Chippenham City of London County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crowthorne Denbighshire Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Inverness Kingston Upon Thames Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Newbury North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	93
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	53	49
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	10.88 %	5.213 %
Salaries quoted	51	43
Average minimum salary	£30,788	£27,326
Average salary	£39,029	£35,093
% change on same period last year	+11.21 %
Average maximum salary	£47,269	£42,860
UK excluding London average salary	£36,327	£39,485
% change on same period last year	-7.99 %
Qualifications Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	487	940
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.419 %
Salaries quoted	434	853
Average minimum salary	£34,188	£33,488
Average salary	£39,394	£36,492
% change on same period last year	+7.95 %
Average maximum salary	£44,599	£39,495
UK excluding London average salary	£37,946	£37,910
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
PhD South East

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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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PhD across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	0	37	£37,043	+5.29 %
Banbury	-	3	£49,167	-
Abingdon	-	1	£40,000	-
Henley-on-Thames	-	1	£70,000	-
Bicester	-	1	£37,500	-

PhD South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 76 (73.79 %) C++ 2 55 (53.40 %) Mathematics 3 45 (43.69 %) Java 4 37 (35.92 %) Degree 5 34 (33.01 %) Physics 6 29 (28.16 %) C 7 26 (25.24 %) OO 8 24 (23.30 %) Computer Science 9 23 (22.33 %) C# 10 20 (19.42 %) .NET 11 16 (15.53 %) Fortran 12 14 (13.59 %) Health 13 13 (12.62 %) Pharmaceutical 14 11 (10.68 %) VC++ 14 11 (10.68 %) Education

15 9 (8.738 %) Pensions 15 9 (8.738 %) Windows 15 9 (8.738 %) Chemicals 15 9 (8.738 %) Risk Assessment 16 8 (7.767 %) Python 16 8 (7.767 %) Postgraduate 17 7 (6.796 %) XML 18 6 (5.825 %) OOD 18 6 (5.825 %) PowerHouse 18 6 (5.825 %) Finance 18 6 (5.825 %) Chemistry 18 6 (5.825 %) Agile Software Development 19 5 (4.854 %) Statistics 19 5 (4.854 %) Biology 19 5 (4.854 %) Numerical Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 20 (19.42 %) .NET 2 7 (6.796 %) XML 3 4 (3.883 %) XBRL 4 3 (2.913 %) XML Schema 4 3 (2.913 %) J2EE 5 2 (1.942 %) Hibernate 5 2 (1.942 %) Spring 6 1 (0.971 %) STL 6 1 (0.971 %) Struts 6 1 (0.971 %) OpenGL	Applications 1 3 (2.913 %) MS Visio 1 3 (2.913 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.854 %) GPRS 1 5 (4.854 %) GSM 2 3 (2.913 %) UMTS 2 3 (2.913 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (2.913 %) Bluetooth	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (1.942 %) GIS 2 1 (0.971 %) SQL Server
General 1 14 (13.59 %) Health 2 13 (12.62 %) Pharmaceutical 3 11 (10.68 %) Education 4 9 (8.738 %) Chemicals 4 9 (8.738 %) Pensions 5 6 (5.825 %) Finance 6 3 (2.913 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.971 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.971 %) 3D Graphics 7 1 (0.971 %) Games 7 1 (0.971 %) Music	Job Titles 1 24 (23.30 %) Developer 2 21 (20.39 %) Programmer 3 14 (13.59 %) Graduate 4 13 (12.62 %) Software Engineer 5 10 (9.709 %) Java Programmer 6 9 (8.738 %) Software Programmer 6 9 (8.738 %) Software Developer 7 6 (5.825 %) C++ Programmer 8 5 (4.854 %) C Programmer 8 5 (4.854 %) Java Developer 8 5 (4.854 %) C++ Developer 9 4 (3.883 %) C++ Software Engineer 9 4 (3.883 %) Java Software Engineer 9 4 (3.883 %) Architect 9 4 (3.883 %) Software Architect 9 4 (3.883 %) .NET Programmer 9 4 (3.883 %) Software Designer 9 4 (3.883 %) Graduate Programmer 10 3 (2.913 %) C++ Software Developer 10 3 (2.913 %) Junior
Miscellaneous 1 55 (53.40 %) Mathematics 2 34 (33.01 %) Physics 3 24 (23.30 %) Computer Science 4 6 (5.825 %) Chemistry 5 5 (4.854 %) Biology 5 5 (4.854 %) Statistics 6 3 (2.913 %) French Language 6 3 (2.913 %) German Language 6 3 (2.913 %) Portuguese Language 6 3 (2.913 %) Device Driver 7 1 (0.971 %) Speech Recognition 7 1 (0.971 %) Applied Mathematics 7 1 (0.971 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 9 (8.738 %) Windows 2 4 (3.883 %) UNIX 3 1 (0.971 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (25.24 %) OO 2 9 (8.738 %) Risk Assessment 3 6 (5.825 %) Agile Software Development 3 6 (5.825 %) OOD 4 5 (4.854 %) Numerical Analysis 4 5 (4.854 %) Monte Carlo Method 5 3 (2.913 %) UML 5 3 (2.913 %) Data Modelling 5 3 (2.913 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (1.942 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (0.971 %) Finite Element Analysis 7 1 (0.971 %) CAD 7 1 (0.971 %) Quantitative Analysis 7 1 (0.971 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 76 (73.79 %) C++ 2 45 (43.69 %) Java 3 29 (28.16 %) C 4 23 (22.33 %) C# 5 16 (15.53 %) Fortran 6 11 (10.68 %) VC++ 7 8 (7.767 %) Python 8 6 (5.825 %) PowerHouse 9 1 (0.971 %) AWK 9 1 (0.971 %) Shell Script 9 1 (0.971 %) Perl 9 1 (0.971 %) VB
Qualifications 1 37 (35.92 %) Degree 2 8 (7.767 %) Postgraduate