PhD Jobs in Gloucestershire

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 128 -
Rank change year-on-year +65 - -
Permanent jobs citing PhD 5 3 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.95% 0.17% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.47% 0.35% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £33,250 £51,050 -
25th Percentile £34,375 £56,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.16% - -
75th Percentile £46,375 £88,750 -
90th Percentile £47,800 - -
South West median annual salary £45,000 £68,750 £45,750
% change year-on-year -34.55% +50.27% -23.75%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 339 847 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 64.20% 48.90% 53.97%
Number of salaries quoted 201 589 208
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £36,025
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £45,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -13.65% +19.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,250 £80,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £52,600 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.59% +2.86% +5.00%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in Gloucestershire

PhD
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Salary trend for PhD in Gloucestershire

PhD
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Cheltenham - 2 £39,500 -
Stroud - 1 - -
Tewkesbury - 1 £42,500 -
PhD
South West

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Broadband
2 1 (20.00%) Wideband
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Graduate
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Graduate Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Radio Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) RF Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) FPGA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (40.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (40.00%) Personalization
2 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Signal Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (60.00%) C
3 3 (60.00%) C++
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) Rust
5 1 (20.00%) Embedded C
5 1 (20.00%) Embedded C++
5 1 (20.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Xilinx