PhD Jobs in the East of England

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 164 104
Rank change year-on-year +55 -60 +8
Permanent jobs citing PhD 69 61 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.06% 0.93% 2.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.94% 3.81% 5.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3 29 15
10th Percentile - £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile - £52,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57,900 £85,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £62,639 £95,978 £102,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £63,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +25.49% -15.00% +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,751 1,600 2,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 52.19% 24.49% 43.45%
Number of salaries quoted 619 1,094 585
10th Percentile £28,425 £26,000 £26,550
25th Percentile £39,750 £32,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,215 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the East of England

PhD
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in the East of England.

Salary trend for PhD in the East of England

PhD
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Salary histogram for PhD in the East of England

PhD
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +15 28 £50,000 -28.57% 77
Hertfordshire +43 15 - - 3
Bedfordshire +8 10 - - 4
Essex +27 9 - - 8
Suffolk - 4 £65,799 -
Norfolk - 3 - - 4
PhD
England

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 27 (39.13%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.72%) AWS
2 26 (37.68%) AWS Lambda
2 26 (37.68%) Azure
2 26 (37.68%) GCP
2 26 (37.68%) Serverless
3 9 (13.04%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (1.45%) GitHub
4 1 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (37.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Git
General
1 35 (50.72%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (14.49%) Manufacturing
3 9 (13.04%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.45%) Agriculture
5 1 (1.45%) Publishing
5 1 (1.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (39.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 27 (39.13%) Trainer
2 26 (37.68%) Senior
3 3 (4.35%) Research Scientist
3 3 (4.35%) Statistician
4 2 (2.90%) Security Engineer
5 1 (1.45%) Developer
5 1 (1.45%) Lead
5 1 (1.45%) Machine Learning Scientist
5 1 (1.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) PyTorch
1 11 (15.94%) TensorFlow
2 10 (14.49%) Keras
2 10 (14.49%) NumPy
2 10 (14.49%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.45%) Flask
3 1 (1.45%) Google JAX
3 1 (1.45%) JAX
3 1 (1.45%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.45%) OpenCV
3 1 (1.45%) Pandas
3 1 (1.45%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.68%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (17.39%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.90%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.45%) CRISPR
4 1 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.45%) Genomics
4 1 (1.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.45%) Android
1 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (59.42%) Artificial Intelligence
2 39 (56.52%) Machine Learning
3 36 (52.17%) Data Science
4 30 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (42.03%) Mathematics
6 27 (39.13%) Agile
6 27 (39.13%) Conversational UI
6 27 (39.13%) Mentoring
7 26 (37.68%) CI/CD
7 26 (37.68%) Clean Code
7 26 (37.68%) Creative Thinking
7 26 (37.68%) Performance Metrics
7 26 (37.68%) Personalization
8 21 (30.43%) Computer Science
9 20 (28.99%) Statistics
10 19 (27.54%) Physics
11 11 (15.94%) Deep Learning
11 11 (15.94%) Roadmaps
12 10 (14.49%) Computational Biology
12 10 (14.49%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (56.52%) Python
2 26 (37.68%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.35%) C
3 3 (4.35%) C++
4 2 (2.90%) Go
4 2 (2.90%) Rust
4 2 (2.90%) Solidity
5 1 (1.45%) Java
5 1 (1.45%) R
5 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (100.00%) Degree
2 28 (40.58%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Vendors
1 27 (39.13%) PayPal
2 1 (1.45%) Facebook
2 1 (1.45%) YouTube