Physics Contracts in the South East

Physics
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Physics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Physics 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 155 197 201
Rank change year-on-year +42 +4 +35
Contract jobs citing Physics 4 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.14% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.17% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - £310 £115
25th Percentile - £313 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £355 £148
Median % change year-on-year +76.06% +140.68% +4.98%
75th Percentile - £429 £600
90th Percentile - £517 £631
England median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.00
Median hourly rate £14.30 - £19.49
75th Percentile - - £20.47
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.75 £59.75 £60.13
% change year-on-year +25.10% -0.62% +71.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Physics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Physics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Physics in the South East

Physics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Physics in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Physics in the South East

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Physics in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Physics in the South East

Physics
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the South East 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
Thames Valley +44 4 £625 +89.39% 66
Berkshire +32 4 £625 +89.39% 27
Physics
England

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) LightWave 3D
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (75.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Trainee
2 1 (25.00%) Trainee Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Research
3 1 (25.00%) Sentiment Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce