PhD Jobs in London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 358 448
Rank change year-on-year +129 +90 -37
Permanent jobs citing PhD 169 146 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.33% 0.62% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.92% 2.16% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 81 98 139
10th Percentile £65,000 £45,750 £57,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £55,000 £61,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.86% +6.06% -5.71%
75th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £175,000 £124,750 £130,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £61,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +13.82% -18.00% +7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,310 6,752 9,226
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 33.84% 28.59% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,015 4,304 5,754
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,725 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £105,000 £110,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,193
% change year-on-year - -5.49% +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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Central London +48 58 £100,000 +40.35% 20
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 (4.14%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.78%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.18%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (4.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.59%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.93%) AWS
2 27 (15.98%) Azure
3 15 (8.88%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (7.10%) GCP
5 3 (1.78%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.18%) Serverless
7 1 (0.59%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.59%) Azure AI
7 1 (0.59%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.59%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.59%) Datadog
7 1 (0.59%) GitHub
7 1 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.59%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.59%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.14%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (2.37%) Apache Hive
3 4 (2.37%) Big Data
3 4 (2.37%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.59%) GIS
4 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.59%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (8.28%) IntelliJ
2 13 (7.69%) Git
3 1 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) Qt Creator
General
1 50 (29.59%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (23.67%) Finance
3 39 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 18 (10.65%) Pharmaceutical
5 13 (7.69%) Publishing
6 12 (7.10%) Law
7 11 (6.51%) Games
8 6 (3.55%) Banking
8 6 (3.55%) Front Office
9 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.96%) Legal
10 4 (2.37%) Agriculture
10 4 (2.37%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.37%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.18%) Advertising
13 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.59%) Esports
13 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.59%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 33 (19.53%) Senior
2 26 (15.38%) Analyst
3 20 (11.83%) Data Scientist
4 18 (10.65%) Developer
4 18 (10.65%) Lead
4 18 (10.65%) Qualitative Analyst
4 18 (10.65%) Quantitative Analyst
5 16 (9.47%) Java Engineer
6 14 (8.28%) Senior Java Engineer
7 13 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
8 12 (7.10%) Senior Data Scientist
9 9 (5.33%) Trainer
10 7 (4.14%) CEO
10 7 (4.14%) Python Developer
10 7 (4.14%) React Developer
11 6 (3.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (2.96%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.37%) .NET Developer
13 4 (2.37%) Architect
13 4 (2.37%) Risk Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (19.53%) NumPy
2 29 (17.16%) PyTorch
3 27 (15.98%) Pandas
4 21 (12.43%) React
4 21 (12.43%) SciPy
5 17 (10.06%) OpenCV
6 16 (9.47%) TensorFlow
7 14 (8.28%) REST
8 10 (5.92%) scikit-learn
9 8 (4.73%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.14%) Flask
10 7 (4.14%) Plotly
11 4 (2.37%) .NET
11 4 (2.37%) Keras
11 4 (2.37%) SpaCy
12 2 (1.18%) Google JAX
12 2 (1.18%) JAX
12 2 (1.18%) Kafka
13 1 (0.59%) QML
13 1 (0.59%) Qt Quick
Miscellaneous
1 57 (33.73%) Algorithms
2 38 (22.49%) Robotics
3 18 (10.65%) Life Science
4 17 (10.06%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.55%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.18%) Derivative
8 2 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.59%) Blog
9 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.59%) Lidar
9 1 (0.59%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.59%) Linux
1 1 (0.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (50.30%) Artificial Intelligence
2 77 (45.56%) Data Science
3 71 (42.01%) Analytics
4 68 (40.24%) Machine Learning
5 67 (39.64%) Computer Science
6 55 (32.54%) Statistics
7 43 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (23.67%) Mathematics
9 39 (23.08%) Physics
10 37 (21.89%) Visualisation
11 31 (18.34%) Software Engineering
12 28 (16.57%) Containerisation
12 28 (16.57%) Data Visualisation
12 28 (16.57%) MLOps
13 26 (15.38%) Agile
13 26 (15.38%) LLM
14 20 (11.83%) Open Source
14 20 (11.83%) Statistical Modelling
15 19 (11.24%) CI/CD
15 19 (11.24%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 99 (58.58%) Python
2 34 (20.12%) C++
3 27 (15.98%) Java
4 19 (11.24%) C#
5 12 (7.10%) MATLAB
6 11 (6.51%) SQL
7 4 (2.37%) C
8 2 (1.18%) F#
8 2 (1.18%) R
9 1 (0.59%) Go
9 1 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 150 (88.76%) Degree
2 141 (83.43%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.37%) Numerate Degree
3 4 (2.37%) Postgraduate
4 3 (1.78%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.18%) MPhil
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.37%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (14.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (16.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.18%) Grafana
2 2 (1.18%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.59%) Bugsnag
3 1 (0.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (2.96%) Google
1 5 (2.96%) Microsoft
1 5 (2.96%) PayPal
2 1 (0.59%) Adobe
2 1 (0.59%) ESRI
2 1 (0.59%) Genesys
2 1 (0.59%) IBM
2 1 (0.59%) OpenAI
2 1 (0.59%) SAP