PhD Jobs in the City of Westminster

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PhD 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 0.51% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median annual salary £110,000 £87,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.71% +34.62% -13.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of Westminster

PhD falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of Westminster.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 103 66 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 52.02% 38.37% 31.19%
Number of salaries quoted 33 33 12
10th Percentile £46,922 £28,250 £37,425
25th Percentile £56,250 £33,125 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £41,250 £58,875
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -29.94% -21.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,625
90th Percentile - £87,250 £67,500
Central London median annual salary £68,250 £67,500 £67,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% +0.75% -4.29%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the City of Westminster

PhD
Salary Trend in the City of Westminster

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in the City of Westminster.

Salary trend for PhD in the City of Westminster

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree