PhD Contracts in Hertfordshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 74 -
Rank change year-on-year +40 - -
Contract jobs citing PhD 12 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 3.76% 0.12% -
As % of the Qualifications category 8.82% 0.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £621 - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £800 -
% change year-on-year -18.75% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 136 295 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 42.63% 35.16% 46.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 116 204
10th Percentile £401 £206 £273
25th Percentile £479 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £500 £544
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -8.05% +20.83%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £700
90th Percentile £675 £719 £750
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 88 85
10th Percentile £39.30 £38.64 £49.00
25th Percentile £53.13 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £43.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.79% -31.20% +11.61%
75th Percentile £81.73 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £74.20
East of England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% +66.67% +7.69%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in Hertfordshire

PhD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for PhD in Hertfordshire

PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for PhD in Hertfordshire

PhD
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Stevenage - 1 - - 8
PhD
East of England

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 12 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Big Data
1 12 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 12 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 12 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Data Science Developer
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (83.33%) Senior
2 10 (83.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) Matplotlib
1 12 (100.00%) NumPy
1 12 (100.00%) Pandas
1 12 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 12 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 12 (100.00%) Seaborn
1 12 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Analytics
1 12 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 12 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 12 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 12 (100.00%) Data Munging
1 12 (100.00%) Data Science
1 12 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 12 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 12 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 12 (100.00%) LLM
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 12 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 12 (100.00%) Reinforcement Learning
1 12 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 12 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
1 12 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
1 12 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
1 12 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) OpenAI