The first table below looks at the demand for PhD in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PhD over the 3 months to 22 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 West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PhD
Rank 168 171 137
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -34
Permanent jobs citing PhD 3 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.081% 0.061% 0.205%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.327% 0.250% 0.930%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 6
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Qualifications
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
917 799 645
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 24.76% 24.54% 22.04%
Number of salaries quoted 686 657 544
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
PhD
Yorkshire

PhD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire PhD Salary Trend

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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Wakefield - 3 £32,500 -
PhD
Yorkshire

PhD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) MATLAB
2 3 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 3 (60.00%) Grid Computing
2 3 (60.00%) Bioinformatics
2 3 (60.00%) jBPM
2 3 (60.00%) Ontologies
2 3 (60.00%) R
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 2 (40.00%) GCED
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) GCIH
3 2 (40.00%) GCFA
3 2 (40.00%) CEH
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) CISSP
3 2 (40.00%) SSCP
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) CISM
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery

PhD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) Web Services
1 3 (60.00%) jBPM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
General
1 3 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Software Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Operations Team Leader
2 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Grid Computing
1 3 (60.00%) Ontologies
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OO
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
1 3 (60.00%) Bioinformatics
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) MATLAB
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) R
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) GCED
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) GCIH
1 2 (40.00%) GCFA
1 2 (40.00%) CEH
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) SSCP
2 1 (20.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) GCIA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) EMC
1 1 (20.00%) Novell
1 1 (20.00%) Symantec
1 1 (20.00%) Tripwire
1 1 (20.00%) Q1 Labs
1 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
1 1 (20.00%) LogLogic
Leeds, North West
Any experience with the following will benefit your application: MySQL (or similar RDBMS), multithreading, optimisation, OOD, Maven, SVN, R... Keywords: Maths, stats, 1st, 2:1, PhD, Java, OO,...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Negotiable dep. on experience
Posted: 23 April 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
The successful applicant is likely to be a bright individual with a BEng, Masters or possibly PhD in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent subject. Equally if you have come...
Roc Search
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + good benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013