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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 20 October 2018 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) UK |
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6 months to
20 Oct 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
679 |
676 |
729 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
-3 |
+53 |
+30 |
| Contract jobs citing PhD |
207 |
205 |
171 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
0.20% |
0.21% |
0.16% |
| As % of the Qualifications category |
1.09% |
1.10% |
0.76% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
115 |
172 |
123 |
| UK median daily rate |
£575 |
£620 |
£563 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-7.26% |
+10.22% |
-6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£408 |
£453 |
£376 |
| 90th Percentile |
£838 |
£849 |
£825 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£513 |
£550 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
-6.82% |
+29.41% |
+3.03% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
11 |
4 |
2 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£27.40 |
£45.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+60.60% |
-39.12% |
+65.59% |
| 10th Percentile |
£33.75 |
£16.64 |
£37.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.25 |
£46.98 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
- |
£19.30 |
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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 |
19,000 |
18,642 |
22,485 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
18.57% |
18.76% |
21.15% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
11,247 |
11,379 |
13,966 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£410 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
+3.66% |
+2.50% |
| 10th Percentile |
£245 |
£225 |
£240 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£600 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£415 |
£400 |
£380 |
| % change year-on-year |
+3.75% |
+5.26% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
944 |
902 |
850 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£25.00 |
£27.50 |
£26.74 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-9.09% |
+2.83% |
+12.60% |
| 10th Percentile |
£12.61 |
£12.01 |
£12.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.00 |
£49.98 |
£49.19 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£25.00 |
£30.00 |
£27.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-16.67% |
+9.09% |
+10.00% |
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PhD
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing PhD as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
PhD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PhD.
PhD
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing PhD over the 6 months to 20 October 2018.
PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD.
PhD
Top 15 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 20 October 2018. 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 20 October 2018, 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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