Physics Jobs in England

Physics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 498 441
Rank change year-on-year +121 -57 -1
Permanent jobs citing Physics 579 499 1,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.68% 0.55% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.58% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 421 222 372
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,318 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.98% +6.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £96,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £137,500 £125,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,344 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -0.25% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Physics is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,894 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.58% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,677 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Physics in England

Physics
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Physics in England

Physics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Physics in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Physics in England

Physics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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 +87 217 £50,000 +5.26% 102
London +63 139 £75,000 -16.67% 133
South West +19 83 £44,000 -20.00% 34
East of England +37 56 £52,500 -30.00% 76
Midlands -9 42 £55,000 - 40
North of England +41 38 £51,528 +16.20% 26
East Midlands -10 25 £41,250 -17.50% 18
North West +20 23 £51,500 -20.77% 21
West Midlands +1 17 £62,500 +4.17% 22
Yorkshire +71 13 £51,528 +16.20% 4
North East -2 2 £55,000 +120.00% 1
Physics
UK

Physics
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 20 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 16 (2.76%) SAS
3 11 (1.90%) Apache
4 3 (0.52%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (3.45%) Simulink
2 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.86%) OrCAD
3 5 (0.86%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.35%) SPSS
5 1 (0.17%) Abaqus
5 1 (0.17%) EViews
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (10.19%) Azure
2 41 (7.08%) AWS
3 32 (5.53%) Power Platform
4 13 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.07%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.07%) IaaS
5 12 (2.07%) PaaS
6 11 (1.90%) GCP
7 6 (1.04%) Power Automate
7 6 (1.04%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.52%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (0.35%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.35%) Serverless
11 1 (0.17%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.17%) GitHub
11 1 (0.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.25%) DHCP
1 13 (2.25%) DNS
1 13 (2.25%) RS-232
1 13 (2.25%) WAN
2 12 (2.07%) Ethernet
2 12 (2.07%) LAN
2 12 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (1.55%) Network Security
4 7 (1.21%) Link 16
4 7 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.04%) Wireless
6 4 (0.69%) Firewall
6 4 (0.69%) Internet
6 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.69%) VPN
7 3 (0.52%) Modbus
7 3 (0.52%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.52%) ZigBee
8 2 (0.35%) Broadband
8 2 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.25%) Tableau
2 19 (3.28%) Power BI
3 17 (2.94%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.73%) Hadoop
5 8 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.52%) Big Data
8 3 (0.52%) Looker
8 3 (0.52%) Redis
9 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.35%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.17%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.17%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 62 (10.71%) Git
2 16 (2.76%) JIRA
3 13 (2.25%) Visual Studio
4 12 (2.07%) GitLab
5 10 (1.73%) Subversion
6 8 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.38%) LabVIEW
7 7 (1.21%) CMake
7 7 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.21%) TestRail
8 5 (0.86%) Xcode
9 4 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.69%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.52%) GDB
10 3 (0.52%) gulp
10 3 (0.52%) PostCSS
10 3 (0.52%) rollup.js
10 3 (0.52%) Vite
11 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 153 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 130 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (11.40%) Electronics
4 43 (7.43%) Retail
5 36 (6.22%) Aerospace
6 35 (6.04%) Games
7 31 (5.35%) Finance
8 29 (5.01%) Manufacturing
9 26 (4.49%) Military
10 25 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (3.63%) Banking
12 17 (2.94%) Marketing
13 16 (2.76%) Automotive
14 14 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.38%) Front Office
15 8 (1.38%) Investment Banking
16 7 (1.21%) Avionics
16 7 (1.21%) Italian Language
16 7 (1.21%) Retail Finance
16 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (21.93%) Senior
2 95 (16.41%) Software Engineer
3 66 (11.40%) Developer
4 58 (10.02%) Analyst
5 52 (8.98%) Data Scientist
6 49 (8.46%) Systems Engineer
7 48 (8.29%) Senior Data Scientist
8 47 (8.12%) Graduate
9 29 (5.01%) Architect
10 25 (4.32%) Junior
10 25 (4.32%) Lead
11 20 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (3.11%) Software Architect
13 15 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (2.42%) Graduate Software Engineer
14 14 (2.42%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.25%) Hardware Engineer
15 13 (2.25%) Physicist
16 12 (2.07%) Programmer
16 12 (2.07%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (6.74%) PySpark
2 38 (6.56%) Pandas
2 38 (6.56%) TensorFlow
3 36 (6.22%) scikit-learn
4 27 (4.66%) .NET
5 22 (3.80%) Unreal Engine
6 20 (3.45%) HTML
6 20 (3.45%) OpenMP
7 16 (2.76%) Unity (Game Engine)
8 14 (2.42%) OpenACC
9 13 (2.25%) OpenGL
10 12 (2.07%) HTML5
10 12 (2.07%) WinForms
10 12 (2.07%) WPF
11 10 (1.73%) Qt
11 10 (1.73%) Vulkan
12 9 (1.55%) CSS
12 9 (1.55%) DirectX
13 8 (1.38%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.38%) OpenCL
Miscellaneous
1 173 (29.88%) Algorithms
2 44 (7.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 35 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (5.53%) Management Information System
5 29 (5.01%) CUDA
5 29 (5.01%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (4.66%) Analogue Electronics
7 26 (4.49%) Driving Licence
7 26 (4.49%) FPGA
8 17 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.94%) VHDL
9 15 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.90%) Credit Risk
12 10 (1.73%) Blockchain
12 10 (1.73%) Embedded Systems
13 8 (1.38%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (1.21%) Client/Server
14 7 (1.21%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 93 (16.06%) Linux
2 32 (5.53%) Unix
3 26 (4.49%) Windows
4 8 (1.38%) Debian
4 8 (1.38%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.69%) Kali Linux
6 3 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.35%) Android
8 1 (0.17%) CentOS
8 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (72.02%) Mathematics
2 241 (41.62%) Computer Science
3 170 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (26.25%) Software Engineering
5 110 (19.00%) Machine Learning
6 92 (15.89%) Statistics
7 90 (15.54%) Agile
8 85 (14.68%) Data Science
9 83 (14.34%) Artificial Intelligence
10 68 (11.74%) Validation
11 67 (11.57%) Chemistry
12 57 (9.84%) Decision-Making
13 46 (7.94%) Customer Experience
13 46 (7.94%) Mentoring
13 46 (7.94%) Parallel Programming
14 43 (7.43%) Actionable Insight
14 43 (7.43%) Analytics
14 43 (7.43%) Predictive Modelling
14 43 (7.43%) Software Testing
15 42 (7.25%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 252 (43.52%) Python
2 141 (24.35%) C++
3 120 (20.73%) C
4 109 (18.83%) SQL
5 84 (14.51%) Fortran
6 80 (13.82%) C#
7 62 (10.71%) MATLAB
8 52 (8.98%) Java
9 36 (6.22%) R
10 33 (5.70%) Bash
11 23 (3.97%) JavaScript
12 18 (3.11%) PowerShell
13 12 (2.07%) Go
14 8 (1.38%) Perl
14 8 (1.38%) T-SQL
15 7 (1.21%) C-shell
16 6 (1.04%) Embedded C
17 5 (0.86%) Ada
17 5 (0.86%) TypeScript
18 4 (0.69%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 441 (76.17%) Degree
2 143 (24.70%) Master's Degree
3 139 (24.01%) PhD
4 123 (21.24%) Security Cleared
5 64 (11.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (6.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (6.74%) DBS Check
8 26 (4.49%) DV Cleared
9 25 (4.32%) SC Cleared
10 12 (2.07%) A+ Certification
10 12 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
11 8 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.86%) CISSP
13 4 (0.69%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.69%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.35%) CREST Certified
14 2 (0.35%) HNC
14 2 (0.35%) OSCE
14 2 (0.35%) OSCP
15 1 (0.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.73%) IFRS
1 10 (1.73%) IFRS 9
1 10 (1.73%) PMO
2 9 (1.55%) CRD IV
2 9 (1.55%) ISO 9002
3 8 (1.38%) QA
4 7 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.69%) NIST
5 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.17%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.17%) RMADS
System Software
1 13 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.73%) Docker
3 9 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.38%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (1.04%) Kubernetes
1 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.69%) Suricata
3 1 (0.17%) Ansible
3 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.17%) Puppet
3 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 65 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.04%) Databricks
3 12 (2.07%) Veeam
4 5 (0.86%) NVIDIA
5 4 (0.69%) Atlassian
5 4 (0.69%) Cisco
5 4 (0.69%) HubSpot
5 4 (0.69%) IBM
5 4 (0.69%) Juniper
5 4 (0.69%) Palo Alto
5 4 (0.69%) Splunk
6 3 (0.52%) Bloomberg
6 3 (0.52%) DevExpress
6 3 (0.52%) SAP
6 3 (0.52%) Thales
7 2 (0.35%) Google
7 2 (0.35%) Sage
7 2 (0.35%) VMware
8 1 (0.17%) EMC
8 1 (0.17%) Xilinx