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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 16 November 2019 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
16 Nov 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
557 |
678 |
666 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+121 |
-12 |
+56 |
| Contract jobs citing PhD |
251 |
227 |
237 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
0.30% |
0.22% |
0.23% |
| As % of the Qualifications category |
1.48% |
1.17% |
1.22% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
177 |
123 |
198 |
| UK median daily rate |
£600 |
£600 |
£620 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
-3.23% |
+7.83% |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£407 |
£453 |
| 90th Percentile |
£805 |
£850 |
£838 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£595 |
£500 |
£550 |
| % change year-on-year |
+19.00% |
-9.09% |
+17.33% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
8 |
11 |
6 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£52.50 |
£44.00 |
£33.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+19.32% |
+33.33% |
-26.67% |
| 10th Percentile |
£18.00 |
£33.75 |
£16.64 |
| 90th Percentile |
£55.58 |
£51.25 |
£47.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£37.03 |
- |
£24.90 |
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 |
16,950 |
19,474 |
19,384 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
20.34% |
18.74% |
18.84% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
10,376 |
11,492 |
11,854 |
| UK median daily rate |
£463 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.88% |
+5.88% |
+3.03% |
| 10th Percentile |
£263 |
£250 |
£224 |
| 90th Percentile |
£644 |
£625 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£423 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.51% |
+5.63% |
+3.23% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
855 |
955 |
928 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£25.00 |
£27.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+40.00% |
-7.41% |
+3.85% |
| 10th Percentile |
£15.00 |
£12.63 |
£12.05 |
| 90th Percentile |
£58.75 |
£51.00 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£35.00 |
£25.31 |
£29.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+38.29% |
-12.72% |
+7.41% |
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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 16 November 2019.
PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PhD.
PhD
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing PhD over the 6 months to 16 November 2019.
PhD
Top 13 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 16 November 2019. 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 16 November 2019, 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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