Physics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 463 447
Rank change year-on-year +80 -16 +2
Permanent jobs citing Physics 664 665 1,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.64% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.66% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 498 268 388
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,371 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.13% +20.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £92,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £135,750 £125,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £44,345 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.20% -11.31% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Physics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Physics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Physics.

Salary trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Physics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Physics in the UK

Physics
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +103 570 £55,000 -15.38% 352
UK excluding London +74 513 £51,528 +16.20% 254
South East +78 219 £52,500 +21.39% 91
Work from Home +69 210 £40,000 -42.86% 129
London +57 136 £75,000 -10.45% 116
South West +43 83 £44,000 -20.00% 39
Scotland -29 75 £52,500 +43.06% 14
East of England +23 54 £52,500 -25.00% 58
North of England +47 38 £51,528 +16.20% 20
Midlands -19 36 £55,000 +10.00% 32
North West +19 23 £60,750 -0.82% 17
West Midlands +3 18 £55,000 +26.44% 11
East Midlands -18 18 £50,000 - 21
Yorkshire +81 13 £51,528 +16.20% 2
Wales -3 5 £51,528 - 9
Northern Ireland +32 3 £70,000 -
North East -1 2 £55,000 +120.00% 1

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 23 (3.46%) SAS
3 17 (2.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) CMS
4 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Confluence
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (3.92%) Simulink
2 5 (0.75%) OrCAD
2 5 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
3 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.45%) SPSS
5 2 (0.30%) EViews
6 1 (0.15%) Abaqus
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 56 (8.43%) Azure
2 41 (6.17%) AWS
3 31 (4.67%) Power Platform
4 12 (1.81%) Entra ID
4 12 (1.81%) GCP
4 12 (1.81%) IaaS
4 12 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (1.81%) PaaS
5 5 (0.75%) Power Automate
5 5 (0.75%) PowerApps
6 4 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.30%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.30%) GitHub
8 2 (0.30%) Serverless
9 1 (0.15%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.08%) Wireless
2 13 (1.96%) DHCP
2 13 (1.96%) DNS
2 13 (1.96%) RS-232
2 13 (1.96%) WAN
3 12 (1.81%) Ethernet
3 12 (1.81%) LAN
3 12 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (1.20%) Network Security
5 7 (1.05%) Link 16
5 7 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.45%) Firewall
6 3 (0.45%) Internet
6 3 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (0.45%) Modbus
6 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.45%) VPN
6 3 (0.45%) ZigBee
7 2 (0.30%) Intranet
8 1 (0.15%) IKE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.27%) Tableau
2 23 (3.46%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.86%) Power BI
4 10 (1.51%) Hadoop
5 8 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.45%) Big Data
8 3 (0.45%) Looker
8 3 (0.45%) Redis
9 2 (0.30%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.30%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.15%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.15%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 57 (8.58%) Git
2 17 (2.56%) Visual Studio
3 16 (2.41%) JIRA
4 12 (1.81%) GitLab
5 11 (1.66%) Subversion
6 8 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.20%) LabVIEW
7 7 (1.05%) CMake
7 7 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.05%) TestRail
8 6 (0.90%) gulp
8 6 (0.90%) PostCSS
8 6 (0.90%) rollup.js
8 6 (0.90%) Vite
9 5 (0.75%) Xcode
10 4 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.60%) Rational Rhapsody
11 3 (0.45%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.45%) GDB
12 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
General
1 192 (28.92%) Social Skills
2 136 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (10.99%) Electronics
4 50 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (7.53%) Retail
5 44 (6.63%) Finance
6 38 (5.72%) Games
7 37 (5.57%) Aerospace
8 33 (4.97%) Banking
9 31 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (4.37%) Manufacturing
11 26 (3.92%) Military
12 19 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.56%) Automotive
14 15 (2.26%) Marketing
15 13 (1.96%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.81%) Law
17 9 (1.36%) Retail Finance
17 9 (1.36%) Telecoms
18 8 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 132 (19.88%) Senior
2 117 (17.62%) Software Engineer
3 80 (12.05%) Graduate
4 71 (10.69%) Developer
5 69 (10.39%) Analyst
6 51 (7.68%) Junior
7 49 (7.38%) Systems Engineer
8 47 (7.08%) Embedded Engineer
9 44 (6.63%) Data Scientist
10 41 (6.17%) Senior Data Scientist
11 33 (4.97%) Lead
12 27 (4.07%) Architect
12 27 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (3.61%) Junior Embedded Engineer
14 18 (2.71%) Software Architect
15 17 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
15 17 (2.56%) Firmware Engineer
16 15 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 15 (2.26%) Senior Developer
17 14 (2.11%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.27%) .NET
2 32 (4.82%) PySpark
3 31 (4.67%) Pandas
3 31 (4.67%) TensorFlow
4 29 (4.37%) scikit-learn
5 22 (3.31%) HTML
5 22 (3.31%) Unreal Engine
5 22 (3.31%) WebGL
6 20 (3.01%) OpenMP
6 20 (3.01%) React
7 16 (2.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 15 (2.26%) HTML5
9 14 (2.11%) OpenACC
10 13 (1.96%) OpenGL
11 12 (1.81%) WinForms
11 12 (1.81%) WPF
12 11 (1.66%) CSS
13 10 (1.51%) Qt
13 10 (1.51%) Vulkan
14 9 (1.36%) DirectX
Miscellaneous
1 174 (26.20%) Algorithms
2 43 (6.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (5.27%) Greenfield Project
3 35 (5.27%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 29 (4.37%) Analogue Electronics
5 29 (4.37%) CUDA
5 29 (4.37%) FPGA
6 26 (3.92%) Driving Licence
7 20 (3.01%) VHDL
8 18 (2.71%) Credit Risk
9 17 (2.56%) Data Structures
10 16 (2.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 15 (2.26%) Blockchain
12 14 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
13 11 (1.66%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.51%) Embedded Systems
15 8 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.20%) Equities
15 8 (1.20%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 93 (14.01%) Linux
2 32 (4.82%) Unix
3 27 (4.07%) Windows
4 8 (1.20%) Debian
4 8 (1.20%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.45%) Kali Linux
5 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) CentOS
7 1 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (74.55%) Mathematics
2 313 (47.14%) Computer Science
3 219 (32.98%) Software Engineering
4 189 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (15.66%) Machine Learning
6 101 (15.21%) Agile
7 97 (14.61%) Statistics
8 81 (12.20%) Validation
9 79 (11.90%) Data Science
10 77 (11.60%) Artificial Intelligence
11 68 (10.24%) Chemistry
12 51 (7.68%) Decision-Making
13 48 (7.23%) Mentoring
13 48 (7.23%) Software Testing
14 46 (6.93%) Parallel Programming
15 45 (6.78%) Analytics
16 39 (5.87%) Customer Experience
17 37 (5.57%) Root Cause Analysis
18 36 (5.42%) Ergonomics
18 36 (5.42%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 253 (38.10%) Python
2 163 (24.55%) C
3 146 (21.99%) C++
4 107 (16.11%) SQL
5 85 (12.80%) C#
6 84 (12.65%) Fortran
7 69 (10.39%) MATLAB
8 54 (8.13%) Java
9 47 (7.08%) Embedded C
10 42 (6.33%) R
11 33 (4.97%) Bash
12 25 (3.77%) JavaScript
13 24 (3.61%) TypeScript
14 17 (2.56%) Go
14 17 (2.56%) PowerShell
15 16 (2.41%) GLSL
16 8 (1.20%) Perl
16 8 (1.20%) T-SQL
17 7 (1.05%) C-shell
18 4 (0.60%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 506 (76.20%) Degree
2 145 (21.84%) Master's Degree
3 143 (21.54%) PhD
4 128 (19.28%) Security Cleared
5 73 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (6.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (5.12%) DBS Check
8 27 (4.07%) DV Cleared
8 27 (4.07%) SC Cleared
9 12 (1.81%) A+ Certification
9 12 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.60%) CISSP
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.30%) CREST Certified
13 2 (0.30%) OSCE
13 2 (0.30%) OSCP
14 1 (0.15%) CISM
14 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (2.41%) IFRS
1 16 (2.41%) IFRS 9
2 15 (2.26%) CRD IV
3 11 (1.66%) PMO
4 9 (1.36%) QA
5 7 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.60%) ISO 9002
7 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.45%) NIST
7 3 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.15%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.15%) RMADS
System Software
1 50 (7.53%) Firmware
2 17 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
3 13 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.51%) Docker
5 9 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (0.90%) Kubernetes
1 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.45%) Suricata
3 1 (0.15%) Ansible
3 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.15%) Puppet
3 1 (0.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 64 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.22%) Databricks
3 12 (1.81%) Veeam
4 5 (0.75%) NVIDIA
4 5 (0.75%) Thales
5 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (0.60%) HubSpot
5 4 (0.60%) IBM
6 3 (0.45%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.45%) Cisco
6 3 (0.45%) DevExpress
6 3 (0.45%) Google
6 3 (0.45%) Juniper
6 3 (0.45%) Palo Alto
6 3 (0.45%) SAP
6 3 (0.45%) Splunk
7 2 (0.30%) Sage
7 2 (0.30%) VMware
7 2 (0.30%) YouTube
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat