PhD Contract Job Trends in Harpenden

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
Hertfordshire > Harpenden

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Harpenden with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PhD 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Harpenden 100.00% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £505 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Harpenden

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 Harpenden.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Harpenden 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +18.93%

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Harpenden 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (100.00%) Agrochemical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Biology
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Remote Sensing
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree