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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 425 435
Rank change year-on-year -23 +10 +1
Permanent jobs citing PhD 443 653 1,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.72% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.81% 2.21% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 323 249 399
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,965 £40,853
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £130,000 £137,500
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 24,424 29,487 35,127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.47% 32.60% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15,760 13,357 16,642
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,998 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -4 166 £58,000 -3.33% 77
London +81 144 £87,500 +6.06% 191
East of England -65 63 £70,000 -12.50% 69
North of England +24 32 £80,000 -8.57% 39
North West +23 21 £80,000 -8.57% 31
Midlands +11 19 £50,000 -13.04% 34
South West -57 16 £68,750 +50.27% 19
West Midlands +20 12 £55,000 - 21
East Midlands -14 7 £40,000 -30.43% 13
Yorkshire +41 6 £37,500 - 6
North East - 5 £55,000 - 2
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 8 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.13%) SAS
4 3 (0.68%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.35%) Simulink
2 6 (1.35%) Stateflow
3 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Blender
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 29 (6.55%) AWS
2 21 (4.74%) Azure
3 20 (4.51%) GCP
4 11 (2.48%) Power Platform
5 6 (1.35%) GitHub
6 4 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (0.90%) Dagster
6 4 (0.90%) 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%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.45%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.23%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.68%) Software-Defined Radio
1 3 (0.68%) Wireless
2 2 (0.45%) Internet
2 2 (0.45%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.39%) Tableau
2 11 (2.48%) Big Data
2 11 (2.48%) Power BI
3 10 (2.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (1.58%) Neo4j
5 6 (1.35%) Hadoop
5 6 (1.35%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (0.90%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.45%) Text Mining
10 1 (0.23%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.23%) Metadata
10 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (7.22%) Git
2 6 (1.35%) GitLab
2 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.35%) JUnit
3 5 (1.13%) CMake
3 5 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.90%) IntelliJ
4 4 (0.90%) JIRA
4 4 (0.90%) Mockito
4 4 (0.90%) 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
1 131 (29.57%) Social Skills
2 83 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
3 58 (13.09%) Finance
4 46 (10.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 25 (5.64%) Electronics
6 23 (5.19%) Marketing
7 17 (3.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.61%) Law
9 13 (2.93%) Legal
10 12 (2.71%) Health Technology
11 10 (2.26%) Retail
12 8 (1.81%) Games
12 8 (1.81%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.35%) Banking
13 6 (1.35%) Front Office
13 6 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.13%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.90%) Aeronautics
15 4 (0.90%) Automotive
15 4 (0.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 94 (21.22%) Senior
2 72 (16.25%) Data Scientist
3 66 (14.90%) Software Engineer
4 56 (12.64%) Developer
5 43 (9.71%) Senior Data Scientist
6 35 (7.90%) Graduate
7 29 (6.55%) Analyst
8 22 (4.97%) Lead
9 20 (4.51%) Software Developer
10 18 (4.06%) Junior
11 15 (3.39%) Lead Data Scientist
12 14 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 13 (2.93%) Business Manager
13 13 (2.93%) Quantitative Developer
14 12 (2.71%) Business Development Manager
14 12 (2.71%) Development Manager
14 12 (2.71%) Physicist
14 12 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
15 11 (2.48%) Computer Scientist
15 11 (2.48%) Principal Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (11.29%) PyTorch
2 41 (9.26%) TensorFlow
3 24 (5.42%) OpenMP
4 17 (3.84%) scikit-learn
5 16 (3.61%) OpenACC
6 14 (3.16%) NumPy
7 13 (2.93%) .NET
8 10 (2.26%) Kafka
9 8 (1.81%) OpenCL
9 8 (1.81%) Pandas
10 7 (1.58%) HTML
10 7 (1.58%) Keras
11 6 (1.35%) REST
11 6 (1.35%) Vulkan
12 5 (1.13%) HTML5
13 4 (0.90%) Apache Beam
13 4 (0.90%) OpenGL
13 4 (0.90%) React
13 4 (0.90%) Rendezvous
13 4 (0.90%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 171 (38.60%) Algorithms
2 43 (9.71%) Life Science
3 35 (7.90%) CUDA
4 30 (6.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 28 (6.32%) Data Structures
6 24 (5.42%) FPGA
7 20 (4.51%) VHDL
8 16 (3.61%) Client/Server
8 16 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (3.16%) Analogue Electronics
9 14 (3.16%) Biopharmaceutical
10 12 (2.71%) Embedded Systems
11 11 (2.48%) Hedge funds
12 10 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (2.03%) Taxonomies
14 6 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.35%) Robotics
15 5 (1.13%) Blog
15 5 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 4 (0.90%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 61 (13.77%) Linux
2 34 (7.67%) Unix
3 2 (0.45%) Android
3 2 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (47.40%) Computer Science
2 191 (43.12%) Mathematics
3 152 (34.31%) Machine Learning
4 139 (31.38%) Physics
5 131 (29.57%) Data Science
6 113 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (23.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 101 (22.80%) Software Engineering
9 73 (16.48%) Statistics
10 50 (11.29%) Analytics
11 49 (11.06%) Agile
12 47 (10.61%) Decision-Making
13 46 (10.38%) Parallel Programming
14 42 (9.48%) Deep Learning
15 39 (8.80%) Natural Language Processing
16 35 (7.90%) Biotechnology
16 35 (7.90%) Chemistry
16 35 (7.90%) Data Analysis
17 33 (7.45%) Neural Network
18 32 (7.22%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 258 (58.24%) Python
2 101 (22.80%) C++
3 91 (20.54%) C
4 71 (16.03%) SQL
5 67 (15.12%) Java
6 63 (14.22%) Fortran
7 55 (12.42%) R
8 50 (11.29%) C#
9 28 (6.32%) MATLAB
10 20 (4.51%) Bash
11 17 (3.84%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.35%) Perl
13 4 (0.90%) AWK
13 4 (0.90%) sed
13 4 (0.90%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.90%) VB
14 3 (0.68%) C-shell
14 3 (0.68%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.68%) Rust
15 2 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 432 (97.52%) Degree
2 283 (63.88%) Master's Degree
3 56 (12.64%) Security Cleared
4 47 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.42%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.29%) MBA
7 15 (3.39%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.26%) CFA
8 10 (2.26%) CIMA
9 6 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.13%) 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 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.26%) QA
3 9 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (2.03%) 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 (5.64%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) IAG
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (5.87%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.03%) Terraform
3 8 (1.81%) Kubeflow
4 5 (1.13%) Argo
5 4 (0.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.45%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 25 (5.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.26%) OpenAI
3 8 (1.81%) Google
4 6 (1.35%) NVIDIA
5 3 (0.68%) ANSYS
5 3 (0.68%) Databricks
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle
6 2 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.23%) Interwoven
7 1 (0.23%) Qubit
7 1 (0.23%) Samsung
7 1 (0.23%) YouTube