PhD Jobs in Surrey

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

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 128 101
Rank change year-on-year +51 -27 +93
Permanent jobs citing PhD 32 27 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 2.48% 1.06% 1.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.57% 2.80% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 14 20 18
10th Percentile £63,250 £32,500 £39,350
25th Percentile £65,000 £33,750 £45,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £105,000 £60,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £68,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £80,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +37.93% -3.33% +33.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 487 965 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 37.78% 38.02% 42.23%
Number of salaries quoted 237 491 304
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -14.78% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £70,150
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £88,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.50% -1.90% +3.26%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in Surrey

PhD
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for PhD in Surrey

PhD
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for PhD in Surrey

PhD
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Guildford +10 14 £75,000 +50.00% 15
Sunbury-on-Thames +23 1 - -
Warlingham - 1 - -
Whyteleafe - 1 - -
Woking - 1 - -
Thames Ditton - 1 - -
Banstead - 1 - -
East Molesey - 1 - -
Epsom - 1 - - 2
Esher - 1 - -
PhD
South East

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Applications
1 2 (6.25%) OrCAD
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) AWS
1 17 (53.13%) AWS Lambda
1 17 (53.13%) Azure
1 17 (53.13%) GCP
1 17 (53.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (53.13%) Broadband
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) Subversion
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) TestRail
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (56.25%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Aeronautics
4 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.13%) Automotive
4 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Senior
2 17 (53.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Lead
6 4 (12.50%) Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Lead Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Lead Software Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Software Developer
8 2 (6.25%) C Developer
8 2 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) C/C++ Developer
8 2 (6.25%) C++ Developer
8 2 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Qt Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Scientific Software Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) C++ Software Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Performance Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Python Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Qt
2 4 (12.50%) WPF
3 3 (9.38%) HTML
4 2 (6.25%) WinForms
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (68.75%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (31.25%) Algorithms
3 6 (18.75%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (9.38%) Device Driver
4 3 (9.38%) FPGA
4 3 (9.38%) VHDL
5 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Agile
1 24 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 23 (71.88%) Mentoring
3 18 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
4 17 (53.13%) Clean Code
4 17 (53.13%) Creative Thinking
4 17 (53.13%) Data Science
4 17 (53.13%) Performance Metrics
4 17 (53.13%) Personalization
5 13 (40.63%) Mathematics
6 10 (31.25%) Physics
7 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) Multithreading
9 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (12.50%) Mathematical Modelling
10 4 (12.50%) MVVM
11 3 (9.38%) Device Driver Development
11 3 (9.38%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
1 19 (59.38%) TypeScript
2 14 (43.75%) C++
3 7 (21.88%) C
4 6 (18.75%) C#
5 3 (9.38%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Bash
6 2 (6.25%) Embedded C
6 2 (6.25%) Embedded C++
7 1 (3.13%) Fortran
7 1 (3.13%) Julia
7 1 (3.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Degree
2 11 (34.38%) Master's Degree
3 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Firmware