Hybrid/Remote Physics Contract Job Trends

Physics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Physics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 303 348
Rank change year-on-year -12 +45 +138
Contract jobs citing Physics 4 11 16
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.096% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 15
10th Percentile £437 £363 £314
25th Percentile £474 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.48% -3.95% -38.71%
75th Percentile £643 £494 £738
90th Percentile £707 £516 £810
UK median daily rate £700 £513 £700
% change year-on-year +36.59% -26.79% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £79.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £20.24 £79.00
% change year-on-year +38.37% -74.39% +21.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Physics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,265 10,197 14,496
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.59% 89.34% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,107 6,396 9,896
10th Percentile £331 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 204 366
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.34 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% -33.70% -7.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.81 £71.90
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.14% +25.71%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Physics and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Physics job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Physics
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Physics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Physics

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Physics over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Physics daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Physics
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Physics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Physics

Physics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (25.00%) Apigee
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) RStudio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Electronics
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Science Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Qualitative Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Quantitative Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) RF Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (25.00%) Flask
1 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (25.00%) NumPy
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) FPGA
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
3 1 (25.00%) Design for Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Stochastic Calculus
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) R
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Def Stans
1 1 (25.00%) DO-160
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) EMC
1 1 (25.00%) Keysight