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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 31 March 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate) UK |
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6 months to
31 Mar 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
556 |
638 |
668 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+82 |
+30 |
-30 |
| Contract jobs citing PhD |
146 |
256 |
230 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK |
0.23% |
0.27% |
0.22% |
| As % of the Qualifications category |
1.07% |
1.36% |
1.17% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
75 |
173 |
181 |
| Median daily rate |
£575 |
£550 |
£600 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+4.55% |
-8.33% |
-3.23% |
| 10th Percentile |
£345 |
£325 |
£413 |
| 90th Percentile |
£890 |
£810 |
£775 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£563 |
£500 |
£450 |
| % change year-on-year |
+12.50% |
+11.11% |
-33.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
6 |
6 |
9 |
| Median hourly rate |
£52.50 |
£50.00 |
£30.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+63.93% |
-7.58% |
| 10th Percentile |
£51.25 |
£26.44 |
£28.57 |
| 90th Percentile |
£60.00 |
£53.75 |
£55.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
- |
£33.19 |
£30.35 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+9.33% |
+23.89% |
PhD is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.
| All Academic and Professional Certifications UK |
| Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications |
13,686 |
18,759 |
19,638 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
21.94% |
19.45% |
19.21% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
8,292 |
11,296 |
11,908 |
| Median daily rate |
£473 |
£450 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
- |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£255 |
£263 |
£231 |
| 90th Percentile |
£640 |
£638 |
£625 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£405 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
+4.94% |
+1.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
660 |
851 |
877 |
| Median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£31.00 |
£23.50 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+12.90% |
+31.91% |
-14.55% |
| 10th Percentile |
£15.50 |
£12.50 |
£12.48 |
| 90th Percentile |
£57.05 |
£52.50 |
£50.10 |
| Median hourly rate |
£34.00 |
£27.50 |
£25.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+23.64% |
+10.00% |
-9.09% |
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PhD
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
PhD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PhD.
PhD
Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PhD over the 6 months to 31 March 2020.
PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PhD.
PhD
Top 14 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the UK over the 6 months to 31 March 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 31 March 2020, IT contractor jobs citing PhD also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for PhD.
PhD
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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