PhD Jobs in Oxfordshire

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil, EngD, Doctorate)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 65 98
Rank change year-on-year +22 +33 -20
Permanent jobs citing PhD 75 64 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.46% 4.02% 1.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.52% 10.32% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 64 11 10
10th Percentile £31,250 £65,000 £40,853
25th Percentile £41,250 £73,125 £41,264
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +72.97% -7.12%
75th Percentile £68,750 £140,000 £62,971
90th Percentile £73,750 - £78,125
South East median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +33.33% -10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 428 620 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 25.46% 38.92% 41.99%
Number of salaries quoted 329 289 336
10th Percentile £31,000 £24,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,000 £34,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,293 £45,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.87% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £72,750 £72,600 £100,000
South East median annual salary £51,010 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.02% -4.76% +5.00%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in Oxfordshire

PhD
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for PhD in Oxfordshire

PhD
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in Oxfordshire

PhD
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Oxford +26 52 £62,500 -21.88% 15
Abingdon +10 2 - - 2
PhD
South East

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 4 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.33%) AWS
2 1 (1.33%) Azure
2 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.33%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Git
General
1 26 (34.67%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.33%) Aeronautics
3 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.67%) Law
4 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Senior
2 12 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Junior
4 9 (12.00%) Computer Scientist
4 9 (12.00%) Research Scientist
5 8 (10.67%) Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Software Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Scientific Software Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior Computer Scientist
8 5 (6.67%) Programmer
8 5 (6.67%) Software Programmer
9 4 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Machine Learning Scientist
10 3 (4.00%) Data Scientist
10 3 (4.00%) Performance Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
11 2 (2.67%) Junior Software Developer
11 2 (2.67%) Senior Data Scientist
11 2 (2.67%) Senior Developer
11 2 (2.67%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) OpenACC
1 14 (18.67%) OpenMP
2 4 (5.33%) Rendezvous
3 1 (1.33%) EDI
3 1 (1.33%) NumPy
3 1 (1.33%) OpenCL
3 1 (1.33%) Pandas
3 1 (1.33%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (62.67%) Algorithms
2 17 (22.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (22.67%) Data Structures
3 16 (21.33%) CUDA
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.00%) Linux
2 14 (18.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (74.67%) Physics
2 52 (69.33%) Computer Science
3 43 (57.33%) Mathematics
4 35 (46.67%) Parallel Programming
5 29 (38.67%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (34.67%) Chemistry
7 19 (25.33%) Machine Learning
8 18 (24.00%) Prototyping
8 18 (24.00%) Software Engineering
9 17 (22.67%) Complexity Analysis
9 17 (22.67%) OO
9 17 (22.67%) OOD
10 14 (18.67%) Code Optimisation
11 8 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (8.00%) Containerisation
13 5 (6.67%) Agile
13 5 (6.67%) CI/CD
13 5 (6.67%) Decision-Making
13 5 (6.67%) Mathematical Modelling
14 4 (5.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (82.67%) Python
2 40 (53.33%) Fortran
3 37 (49.33%) C
4 25 (33.33%) C++
5 9 (12.00%) Java
5 9 (12.00%) MATLAB
6 5 (6.67%) C#
7 4 (5.33%) AWK
7 4 (5.33%) sed
7 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.67%) R
9 1 (1.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (100.00%) Degree
2 54 (72.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Ansible
1 4 (5.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (1.33%) Google
1 1 (1.33%) NVIDIA
1 1 (1.33%) Qubit
1 1 (1.33%) YouTube