Physics Jobs in Edinburgh

Physics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Physics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Physics over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 76 132
Rank change year-on-year -4 +56 +14
Permanent jobs citing Physics 5 28 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.57% 1.86% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 2.10% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 0 28 8
10th Percentile - £27,500 -
25th Percentile - £42,500 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £42,849
Median % change year-on-year - +40.03% -28.58%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £59,000
90th Percentile - - £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £40,101 £52,500 £42,849
% change year-on-year -23.62% +22.52% -14.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 846 1,331 1,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.13% 88.56% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 360 934 1,082
10th Percentile £26,156 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £38,063 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Physics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Physics in Edinburgh

Physics
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Physics in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Physics in Edinburgh

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (40.00%) LaTeX
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (40.00%) Risk Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Google JAX
1 2 (40.00%) JAX
1 2 (40.00%) NumPy
1 2 (40.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (40.00%) scikit-learn
1 2 (40.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk
1 2 (40.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Community of Practice
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cost Reduction
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Experimental Design
3 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Model Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Qualitative Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Quantitative Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) PhD
2 2 (40.00%) Postgraduate