PhD Jobs in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 450 404
Rank change year-on-year +97 -46 -37
Permanent jobs citing PhD 145 184 597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.52% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.16% 1.99% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 98 139 244
10th Percentile £45,750 £57,250 £57,528
25th Percentile £54,063 £61,786 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £132,500
90th Percentile £124,750 £130,000 £152,500
England median annual salary £61,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% +7.14% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,710 9,250 13,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.57% 26.00% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,278 5,757 6,827
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,900
25th Percentile £49,556 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,500 £105,000
England median annual salary £54,995 £58,193 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.50% +5.81% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in London

PhD
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for PhD in London

PhD
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in London

PhD
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +76 38 £55,000 -15.38% 9
PhD
England

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.07%) SAS
4 2 (1.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Blender
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.79%) AWS
2 19 (13.10%) GCP
3 18 (12.41%) Azure
4 6 (4.14%) GitHub
5 4 (2.76%) Dagster
6 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.07%) Serverless
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.38%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.38%) OCI
7 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.38%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.69%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.52%) Big Data
2 7 (4.83%) Neo4j
3 6 (4.14%) Hadoop
3 6 (4.14%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.14%) Tableau
4 5 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.76%) Data Mining
5 4 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.38%) Power BI
7 2 (1.38%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.69%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (8.28%) Git
2 6 (4.14%) GitLab
3 4 (2.76%) Snakemake
4 3 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.38%) JUnit
5 2 (1.38%) MLflow
5 2 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.38%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 57 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.76%) Finance
3 15 (10.34%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Health Technology
5 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.21%) Retail
7 8 (5.52%) Marketing
8 6 (4.14%) Front Office
9 5 (3.45%) Banking
9 5 (3.45%) Law
10 4 (2.76%) Games
11 2 (1.38%) Advertising
11 2 (1.38%) Electronics
11 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.69%) French Language
12 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (17.24%) Data Scientist
2 23 (15.86%) Analyst
3 22 (15.17%) Senior
4 18 (12.41%) Developer
5 13 (8.97%) Quantitative Developer
5 13 (8.97%) Senior Data Scientist
6 11 (7.59%) Qualitative Analyst
6 11 (7.59%) Quantitative Analyst
7 10 (6.90%) Lead
8 8 (5.52%) Junior
9 7 (4.83%) Data Science Director
10 6 (4.14%) Graduate
11 5 (3.45%) Data Analyst
11 5 (3.45%) Junior Analyst
11 5 (3.45%) Operations Analyst
11 5 (3.45%) Risk Analyst
11 5 (3.45%) Senior Manager
11 5 (3.45%) Software Developer
11 5 (3.45%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.45%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.62%) PyTorch
2 21 (14.48%) TensorFlow
3 10 (6.90%) Kafka
3 10 (6.90%) scikit-learn
4 6 (4.14%) .NET
5 5 (3.45%) Keras
5 5 (3.45%) NumPy
6 4 (2.76%) Apache Beam
7 3 (2.07%) NLTK
7 3 (2.07%) SpaCy
8 2 (1.38%) Apache Commons
8 2 (1.38%) Django
8 2 (1.38%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.38%) Flask
8 2 (1.38%) Gensim
8 2 (1.38%) ggplot
8 2 (1.38%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.38%) OpenMP
8 2 (1.38%) Pandas
8 2 (1.38%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.76%) Algorithms
2 21 (14.48%) Life Science
3 11 (7.59%) Hedge funds
4 10 (6.90%) Client/Server
5 9 (6.21%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.45%) Blog
6 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.76%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.76%) Omics
8 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.07%) Credit Risk
8 3 (2.07%) CUDA
8 3 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.07%) IoT
8 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.38%) FPGA
9 2 (1.38%) Social Network
9 2 (1.38%) Verilog
9 2 (1.38%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (1.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (53.79%) Computer Science
2 69 (47.59%) Data Science
3 61 (42.07%) Machine Learning
4 59 (40.69%) Mathematics
5 51 (35.17%) Statistics
6 46 (31.72%) Artificial Intelligence
7 30 (20.69%) Physics
8 28 (19.31%) Natural Language Processing
9 27 (18.62%) Software Engineering
10 25 (17.24%) Deep Learning
11 24 (16.55%) Agile
12 22 (15.17%) Analytics
13 17 (11.72%) Business Development
13 17 (11.72%) LLM
13 17 (11.72%) Neural Network
13 17 (11.72%) Open Source
14 16 (11.03%) Decision-Making
14 16 (11.03%) Generative AI
14 16 (11.03%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (11.03%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 107 (73.79%) Python
2 47 (32.41%) SQL
3 32 (22.07%) C++
4 27 (18.62%) R
5 21 (14.48%) Java
6 19 (13.10%) C#
7 13 (8.97%) C
8 5 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.45%) MATLAB
9 4 (2.76%) Bash
10 2 (1.38%) Go
10 2 (1.38%) Rust
11 1 (0.69%) Ada
11 1 (0.69%) Ruby
11 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 144 (99.31%) Degree
2 112 (77.24%) Master's Degree
3 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.76%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.38%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.38%) OSCE
5 2 (1.38%) OSCP
6 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.38%) SNOMED CT
2 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.21%) Docker
2 2 (1.38%) IAG
Systems Management
1 13 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Kubeflow
3 5 (3.45%) Argo
3 5 (3.45%) Terraform
4 2 (1.38%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 6 (4.14%) Google
1 6 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.38%) Oracle
3 2 (1.38%) SAP
4 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.69%) Samsung