Physics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Physics
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 416 463
Rank change year-on-year +49 +47 -81
Contract jobs citing Physics 23 43 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 28
10th Percentile £311 £124 -
25th Percentile £313 £146 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £161 £198
Median % change year-on-year +135.66% -18.35% -53.53%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £581
90th Percentile £642 £622 £638
UK median daily rate £675 £688 £625
% change year-on-year -1.82% +10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 24 15
10th Percentile - £19.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.75 £20.10 £18.26
Median hourly rate £59.50 £53.75 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +10.70% +175.36% -54.07%
75th Percentile £64.44 £65.00 £21.00
90th Percentile £64.78 - £50.72
UK median hourly rate £59.75 £52.50 £19.91
% change year-on-year +13.81% +163.69% -48.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Physics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,611 21,615 27,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.54% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 14,981 19,185
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 1,327 1,379
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.23 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

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 26 April 2024.

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
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 26 April 2024. 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 +11 8 £355 +140.68% 90
West Midlands - 7 £320 - 11
Midlands - 7 £320 - 29
East of England +10 6 - - 56
North of England +27 1 £650 - 25
North West +20 1 £650 - 21
South West +17 1 £700 +55.56% 42
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) SAS
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Simulink
2 4 (17.39%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (13.04%) SPSS
4 2 (8.70%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (13.04%) Tableau
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (8.70%) Rational Team Concert
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 6 (26.09%) Aerospace
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Automotive
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
2 4 (17.39%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Military
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Law
4 2 (8.70%) Multimedia
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Publishing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (13.04%) Analyst
1 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
1 3 (13.04%) Principal Engineer
1 3 (13.04%) RF Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
3 1 (4.35%) Developer
3 1 (4.35%) DSP Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Electronics Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Scientist
3 1 (4.35%) Process Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Research Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Research Scientist
3 1 (4.35%) Research Software Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Data Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) D3.js
2 1 (4.35%) CSS
2 1 (4.35%) CSS3
2 1 (4.35%) Dask
2 1 (4.35%) GStreamer
2 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.35%) HTML
2 1 (4.35%) HTML5
2 1 (4.35%) J2EE
2 1 (4.35%) Keras
2 1 (4.35%) NumPy
2 1 (4.35%) OSGi
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
1 4 (17.39%) Infotainment
2 3 (13.04%) Analogue Electronics
3 1 (4.35%) Digital TV
3 1 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Mathematics
2 7 (30.43%) Validation
3 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Modelling
4 4 (17.39%) Battery Management
4 4 (17.39%) CAD
4 4 (17.39%) Product Strategy
4 4 (17.39%) Statistics
4 4 (17.39%) Systems Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (17.39%) Threat Modelling
4 4 (17.39%) Use Case
5 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.04%) Configuration Management
5 3 (13.04%) Data Enrichment
5 3 (13.04%) Data Interpretation
5 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) MATLAB
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) C
3 4 (17.39%) C++
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Fortran
4 3 (13.04%) R
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Embedded C
6 1 (4.35%) Embedded C++
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Degree
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.04%) PhD
4 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Keysight
2 2 (8.70%) MathWorks
3 1 (4.35%) Adobe
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft