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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 429 496
Rank change year-on-year +115 +67 -100
Permanent jobs citing PhD 168 130 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.81% 0.48% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.91% 1.84% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 68 116 205
10th Percentile £52,550 £55,625 £58,750
25th Percentile £73,438 £59,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £116,875 £120,000 £125,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £137,500 £148,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% +7.69%

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 5,766 7,082 16,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.80% 26.11% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 3,193 4,957 7,030
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,300 £112,500 £102,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +74 70 £100,000 +53.85% 8
South London - 2 - - 1
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 8 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.60%) Blender
Business Applications
1 14 (8.33%) Ripple
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.93%) Azure
2 14 (8.33%) AWS
3 11 (6.55%) GCP
4 4 (2.38%) GitHub
4 4 (2.38%) Google Gemini
5 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.19%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.60%) OCI
7 1 (0.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.17%) Hadoop
2 6 (3.57%) Big Data
3 4 (2.38%) Data Mining
3 4 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.38%) Neo4j
4 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.19%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.19%) Text Mining
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.60%) Metadata
6 1 (0.60%) Power BI
6 1 (0.60%) Redis
6 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Git
2 4 (2.38%) GitLab
3 2 (1.19%) MLflow
3 2 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.60%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.60%) JIRA
4 1 (0.60%) TensorBoard
General
1 91 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 61 (36.31%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
4 38 (22.62%) Finance
5 29 (17.26%) Law
6 16 (9.52%) Legal
7 15 (8.93%) Financial Institution
8 12 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.76%) Humanities
9 8 (4.76%) Social Science
10 6 (3.57%) Banking
10 6 (3.57%) Retail
11 4 (2.38%) Health Technology
11 4 (2.38%) Marketing
12 3 (1.79%) Advertising
13 2 (1.19%) Games
14 1 (0.60%) Electronics
14 1 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (27.98%) Analyst
2 39 (23.21%) Senior
3 32 (19.05%) Data Scientist
4 25 (14.88%) Senior Data Scientist
5 24 (14.29%) Developer
6 16 (9.52%) Qualitative Analyst
6 16 (9.52%) Quantitative Analyst
6 16 (9.52%) Quantitative Developer
7 10 (5.95%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.76%) Development Manager
8 8 (4.76%) Research Manager
9 7 (4.17%) Java Quantitative Developer
9 7 (4.17%) Lead
10 6 (3.57%) C# Developer
10 6 (3.57%) C# Quant Developer
10 6 (3.57%) Data Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Operational Risk Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Operations Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Python Developer
11 5 (2.98%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.90%) PyTorch
2 16 (9.52%) TensorFlow
3 10 (5.95%) Kafka
4 5 (2.98%) scikit-learn
5 4 (2.38%) Apache Beam
5 4 (2.38%) Keras
5 4 (2.38%) NumPy
6 3 (1.79%) FastAPI
6 3 (1.79%) Pandas
7 2 (1.19%) Apache Commons
7 2 (1.19%) Django
7 2 (1.19%) Flask
7 2 (1.19%) Gensim
7 2 (1.19%) ggplot
7 2 (1.19%) Matplotlib
7 2 (1.19%) NLTK
7 2 (1.19%) SciPy
7 2 (1.19%) SpaCy
8 1 (0.60%) OpenCV
8 1 (0.60%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 68 (40.48%) Algorithms
2 54 (32.14%) Life Science
3 20 (11.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (9.52%) Blockchain
5 8 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (4.17%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.57%) Client/Server
7 6 (3.57%) Hedge funds
8 5 (2.98%) Blog
8 5 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.19%) CUDA
10 2 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 2 (1.19%) IoT
10 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.19%) Social Network
11 1 (0.60%) Derivative
11 1 (0.60%) Equities
11 1 (0.60%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Android
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (68.45%) Computer Science
2 96 (57.14%) Statistics
3 91 (54.17%) Data Science
4 63 (37.50%) Analytics
5 61 (36.31%) Software Engineering
6 57 (33.93%) Mathematics
7 54 (32.14%) Data Visualisation
7 54 (32.14%) Visualisation
8 50 (29.76%) Machine Learning
9 48 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
10 47 (27.98%) Process Improvement
11 46 (27.38%) Biotechnology
11 46 (27.38%) Data Modelling
11 46 (27.38%) Informatics
12 45 (26.79%) Business Analytics
13 42 (25.00%) Physics
14 34 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
16 27 (16.07%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (13.10%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 87 (51.79%) Python
2 35 (20.83%) C++
3 34 (20.24%) Java
4 24 (14.29%) C#
5 23 (13.69%) SQL
6 22 (13.10%) R
7 13 (7.74%) MATLAB
8 6 (3.57%) C
9 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 167 (99.40%) Degree
2 139 (82.74%) Master's Degree
3 10 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.19%) CREST Certified
4 2 (1.19%) OSCE
4 2 (1.19%) OSCP
5 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.60%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.19%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (3.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.19%) IAG
Systems Management
1 12 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.57%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.79%) Argo
3 3 (1.79%) Terraform
4 1 (0.60%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 5 (2.98%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.38%) Google
2 4 (2.38%) OpenAI
3 1 (0.60%) Databricks
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle
3 1 (0.60%) SAP