PhD Contracts in Berkshire

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing PhD 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.085% - 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% - 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
South East median daily rate £625 £625 £235
% change year-on-year - +165.96% -63.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

PhD falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 423 893 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.06% 45.01% 32.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 431 341
10th Percentile £313 £206 £349
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 82 39
10th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £20.70
25th Percentile £59.44 £52.90 £50.45
Median hourly rate £66.87 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.56% -5.23% +208.79%
75th Percentile £79.30 £75.24 £75.38
90th Percentile £88.73 £87.46 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in Berkshire

PhD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PhD in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for PhD in Berkshire

PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PhD in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for PhD in Berkshire

PhD
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 1 £625 -
PhD
South East

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Research
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Sentiment Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce