Physics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Physics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 326 376 420
Rank change year-on-year +50 +44 +41
Contract jobs citing Physics 10 23 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 12
10th Percentile £163 £311 £118
25th Percentile £294 £313 £146
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £380 £148
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% +157.63% -41.00%
75th Percentile £581 £610 £600
90th Percentile £608 £642 £628
UK median daily rate £675 £700 £700
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 25
10th Percentile £28.24 - £19.00
25th Percentile £49.14 £54.75 £20.47
Median hourly rate £74.75 £59.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% +8.18% +181.76%
75th Percentile £88.00 £64.44 £65.00
90th Percentile - £64.78 -
UK median hourly rate £74.75 £59.75 £53.75
% change year-on-year +25.10% +11.16% +169.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Physics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Physics in the UK excluding London

Physics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Physics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Physics in the UK excluding London

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Physics in the UK excluding London

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Physics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Physics in the UK excluding London

Physics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Physics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Physics in the UK excluding London

Physics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the UK excluding London 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
South East +42 4 £625 +76.06% 227
East of England +27 3 - - 137
South West +47 2 £525 -25.00% 64
Midlands +16 1 £75 -76.56% 96
East Midlands - 1 £75 - 39
Physics
UK

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (30.00%) Simulink
2 2 (20.00%) LightWave 3D
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) NetBeans
General
1 6 (60.00%) Electronics
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Games
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Coordinator
1 2 (20.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (10.00%) Firmware Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Trainee
2 1 (10.00%) Trainee Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (30.00%) FPGA
2 3 (30.00%) PCIe
2 3 (30.00%) Verilog
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) Cryptography
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (30.00%) UVM
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 1 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Economics
6 1 (10.00%) Logistics
6 1 (10.00%) Operations Research
6 1 (10.00%) Project Management
6 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Statistical Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (30.00%) SystemVerilog
1 3 (30.00%) Tcl
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) R
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (30.00%) HNC
3 3 (30.00%) HND
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) DO-254
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) IEC 61508
2 1 (10.00%) MISRA
2 1 (10.00%) MISRA C
2 1 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Actel
1 3 (30.00%) Altera
1 3 (30.00%) Intel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsemi
1 3 (30.00%) Xilinx
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) QNX
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce