The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs advertised for the Sunderland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Sunderland region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 9 10 11
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Permanent jobs citing PhD 9 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sunderland 20.93% 7.143% 2.941%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.86% 20.00% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 1
Average salary £42,500 £34,750 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.30% +47.87%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £36,750
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +8.84%
All Qualifications
Sunderland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
21 10 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sunderland 48.84% 35.71% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 19 10 6
Average salary £39,000 £36,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £31,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £39,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
PhD
Tyne and Wear

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sunderland 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 Sunderland region.

Sunderland PhD Salary Trend

PhD
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Sunderland 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 24 (100.00%) Java
1 24 (100.00%) Degree
1 24 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 22 (91.67%) Unit Testing
2 22 (91.67%) 3D Graphics
2 22 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (79.17%) C++
3 19 (79.17%) Physics
3 19 (79.17%) Computer Science
4 17 (70.83%) Mathematics
4 17 (70.83%) OO
5 16 (66.67%) OOD
6 11 (45.83%) Visualisation
6 11 (45.83%) UML
7 9 (37.50%) Parallel Programming
8 8 (33.33%) CUDA
9 5 (20.83%) Game Development
9 5 (20.83%) Games
9 5 (20.83%) Windows
9 5 (20.83%) Linux
10 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Sunderland 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.

General
1 5 (20.83%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 22 (91.67%) Software Developer
3 15 (62.50%) Java Developer
4 13 (54.17%) Java Software Developer
5 10 (41.67%) C++ Developer
5 10 (41.67%) C++/Java Developer
6 8 (33.33%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (8.333%) Software Engineer
7 2 (8.333%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (8.333%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (91.67%) 3D Graphics
2 19 (79.17%) Physics
2 19 (79.17%) Computer Science
3 17 (70.83%) Mathematics
4 11 (45.83%) Visualisation
5 8 (33.33%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Multithreading
2 22 (91.67%) Unit Testing
2 22 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (70.83%) OO
4 16 (66.67%) OOD
5 11 (45.83%) UML
6 9 (37.50%) Parallel Programming
7 5 (20.83%) Game Development
8 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (79.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Degree
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