PhD Jobs in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 446 429 431
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing PhD 440 677 1,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.73% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.82% 2.22% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 323 250 407
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,749
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +7.14% +4.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £123,250 £134,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,218 30,499 34,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.56% 32.72% 26.45%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 13,726 16,723
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in England

PhD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
South East -3 168 £58,000 -3.33% 71
London +93 145 £87,500 +6.06% 179
East of England -58 63 £70,000 -6.67% 63
North of England +24 30 £80,000 -8.57% 35
North West +29 21 £80,000 -8.57% 27
Midlands +14 18 £52,495 -8.70% 27
South West -36 13 £68,750 +50.27% 18
West Midlands +33 11 £55,000 - 15
East Midlands -15 7 £40,000 -30.43% 12
North East - 5 £55,000 - 2
Yorkshire +44 4 £37,500 - 7
PhD
UK

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.14%) SAS
4 2 (0.45%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.36%) Simulink
2 6 (1.36%) Stateflow
3 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Blender
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 30 (6.82%) AWS
2 22 (5.00%) Azure
3 20 (4.55%) GCP
4 11 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.36%) GitHub
6 4 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.91%) Dagster
6 4 (0.91%) SaaS
7 3 (0.68%) Serverless
8 2 (0.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (0.45%) OCI
8 2 (0.45%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.23%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.23%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.68%) Internet
1 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (0.68%) Wireless
2 2 (0.45%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.41%) Tableau
2 11 (2.50%) Power BI
3 10 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.05%) Big Data
5 7 (1.59%) Neo4j
6 6 (1.36%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.91%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.45%) Text Mining
11 1 (0.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 32 (7.27%) Git
2 6 (1.36%) GitLab
2 6 (1.36%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.36%) JUnit
3 5 (1.14%) CMake
3 5 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.91%) IntelliJ
4 4 (0.91%) JIRA
4 4 (0.91%) Mockito
4 4 (0.91%) Snakemake
5 3 (0.68%) TestRail
6 2 (0.45%) GDB
6 2 (0.45%) MLflow
6 2 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.45%) TensorBoard
7 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 129 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 81 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (12.95%) Finance
4 46 (10.45%) Pharmaceutical
5 27 (6.14%) Electronics
6 23 (5.23%) Marketing
7 14 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.95%) Law
9 12 (2.73%) Health Technology
9 12 (2.73%) Legal
10 10 (2.27%) Retail
11 8 (1.82%) Games
12 7 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.36%) Banking
13 6 (1.36%) Front Office
13 6 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.91%) Aeronautics
14 4 (0.91%) Automotive
14 4 (0.91%) Public Sector
15 3 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 91 (20.68%) Senior
2 69 (15.68%) Data Scientist
3 67 (15.23%) Software Engineer
4 56 (12.73%) Developer
5 41 (9.32%) Senior Data Scientist
6 36 (8.18%) Graduate
7 30 (6.82%) Analyst
8 22 (5.00%) Lead
9 20 (4.55%) Junior
9 20 (4.55%) Software Developer
10 15 (3.41%) Lead Data Scientist
11 14 (3.18%) Senior Developer
12 13 (2.95%) Quantitative Developer
13 12 (2.73%) Business Development Manager
13 12 (2.73%) Business Manager
13 12 (2.73%) Development Manager
13 12 (2.73%) Physicist
13 12 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (2.50%) Computer Scientist
14 11 (2.50%) Qualitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.14%) PyTorch
2 40 (9.09%) TensorFlow
3 24 (5.45%) OpenMP
4 17 (3.86%) scikit-learn
5 16 (3.64%) OpenACC
6 14 (3.18%) NumPy
7 13 (2.95%) .NET
8 10 (2.27%) Kafka
9 8 (1.82%) OpenCL
10 7 (1.59%) HTML
10 7 (1.59%) Pandas
11 6 (1.36%) Keras
11 6 (1.36%) REST
11 6 (1.36%) Vulkan
12 5 (1.14%) HTML5
13 4 (0.91%) Apache Beam
13 4 (0.91%) OpenGL
13 4 (0.91%) React
13 4 (0.91%) Rendezvous
13 4 (0.91%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 172 (39.09%) Algorithms
2 43 (9.77%) Life Science
3 35 (7.95%) CUDA
4 31 (7.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 28 (6.36%) Data Structures
6 26 (5.91%) FPGA
7 22 (5.00%) VHDL
8 17 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (3.64%) Analogue Electronics
9 16 (3.64%) Client/Server
10 14 (3.18%) Biopharmaceutical
11 12 (2.73%) Embedded Systems
12 11 (2.50%) Hedge funds
13 10 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (2.05%) Taxonomies
15 6 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (1.36%) Robotics
16 5 (1.14%) Blog
16 5 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 4 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.86%) Linux
2 34 (7.73%) Unix
3 2 (0.45%) Android
3 2 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (47.05%) Computer Science
2 192 (43.64%) Mathematics
3 148 (33.64%) Machine Learning
4 142 (32.27%) Physics
5 127 (28.86%) Data Science
6 112 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (23.64%) Software Engineering
8 101 (22.95%) Artificial Intelligence
9 71 (16.14%) Statistics
10 47 (10.68%) Agile
10 47 (10.68%) Decision-Making
11 46 (10.45%) Analytics
11 46 (10.45%) Parallel Programming
12 41 (9.32%) Deep Learning
13 40 (9.09%) Natural Language Processing
14 36 (8.18%) Chemistry
15 35 (7.95%) Biotechnology
16 32 (7.27%) Business Development
16 32 (7.27%) Data Analysis
16 32 (7.27%) Neural Network
Programming Languages
1 256 (58.18%) Python
2 105 (23.86%) C++
3 94 (21.36%) C
4 69 (15.68%) Java
4 69 (15.68%) SQL
5 63 (14.32%) Fortran
6 54 (12.27%) R
7 50 (11.36%) C#
8 27 (6.14%) MATLAB
9 20 (4.55%) Bash
10 17 (3.86%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.36%) Perl
12 4 (0.91%) AWK
12 4 (0.91%) sed
12 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.91%) VB
13 3 (0.68%) C-shell
13 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.68%) Rust
14 2 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 430 (97.73%) Degree
2 283 (64.32%) Master's Degree
3 57 (12.95%) Security Cleared
4 45 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.32%) MBA
7 16 (3.64%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.27%) CFA
8 10 (2.27%) CIMA
9 6 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.45%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.45%) OSCE
11 2 (0.45%) OSCP
12 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.23%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.27%) QA
3 9 (2.05%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (2.05%) GDPR
4 2 (0.45%) ECSS
4 2 (0.45%) GLP
4 2 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
4 2 (0.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 25 (5.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) IAG
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (5.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.05%) Terraform
3 8 (1.82%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.14%) Argo
5 4 (0.91%) Ansible
6 2 (0.45%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 25 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.27%) OpenAI
3 7 (1.59%) Google
4 6 (1.36%) NVIDIA
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle
5 2 (0.45%) SAP
6 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.23%) ANSYS
6 1 (0.23%) Databricks
6 1 (0.23%) Interwoven
6 1 (0.23%) Qubit
6 1 (0.23%) Samsung
6 1 (0.23%) YouTube