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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 10 December 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, EngD, Doctorate) UK |
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6 months to
10 Dec 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
644 |
661 |
698 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+17 |
+37 |
+20 |
| Contract jobs citing PhD |
241 |
239 |
191 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
0.23% |
0.23% |
0.19% |
| As % of the Qualifications category |
1.20% |
1.24% |
0.90% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
133 |
202 |
132 |
| UK median daily rate |
£600 |
£620 |
£600 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
-3.23% |
+3.33% |
- |
| 10th Percentile |
£363 |
£450 |
£363 |
| 90th Percentile |
£838 |
£838 |
£850 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£500 |
£550 |
£600 |
| % change year-on-year |
-9.09% |
-8.33% |
+45.45% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
11 |
6 |
4 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£44.00 |
£33.00 |
£41.01 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+33.33% |
-19.53% |
+31.78% |
| 10th Percentile |
£33.75 |
£16.64 |
£33.34 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.25 |
£47.50 |
£52.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
- |
£24.90 |
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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 |
20,038 |
19,300 |
21,211 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
19.07% |
18.84% |
20.66% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
11,898 |
11,877 |
13,274 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£420 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
+1.19% |
+5.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£256 |
£220 |
£240 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£609 |
£594 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£393 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
+1.91% |
+1.29% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
968 |
884 |
851 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£26.10 |
£25.31 |
£26.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+3.13% |
-2.65% |
+4.00% |
| 10th Percentile |
£13.00 |
£12.00 |
£12.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.00 |
£49.06 |
£48.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£26.50 |
£26.68 |
£27.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
-0.68% |
-1.18% |
+7.48% |
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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 10 December 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 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 10 December 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 10 December 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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