PhD Jobs in the Thames Valley

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

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 147 141
Rank change year-on-year +13 -6 +81
Permanent jobs citing PhD 50 56 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.47% 1.25% 2.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.30% 2.90% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 29 34 41
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,953
25th Percentile £43,500 £50,313 £40,371
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,509 £58,503 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +11.43% +3.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £70,875 £62,971
90th Percentile - £73,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £56,509 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.82% +9.09% +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,513 1,934 2,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 44.42% 43.23% 41.41%
Number of salaries quoted 501 1,164 1,084
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £28,954
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,085 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,375
South East median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,350
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.24% -1.25%

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the Thames Valley

PhD
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for PhD in the Thames Valley

PhD
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 January 2025.

Salary histogram for PhD in the Thames Valley

PhD
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 January 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
Oxfordshire -11 27 £56,509 -0.87% 2
Berkshire +51 23 £52,000 -13.33% 16
PhD
South East

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) Azure
1 4 (8.00%) GCP
2 3 (6.00%) AWS
2 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.00%) Pulumi
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) GitLab
2 2 (4.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 12 (24.00%) Electronics
1 12 (24.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) Developer
1 19 (38.00%) Software Developer
2 14 (28.00%) Senior
2 14 (28.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 6 (12.00%) Physicist
5 4 (8.00%) Computer Scientist
5 4 (8.00%) Programmer
5 4 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Software Programmer
6 3 (6.00%) Platform Manager
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Computer Scientist
8 1 (2.00%) Audio Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Data Scientist
8 1 (2.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) .NET
2 3 (6.00%) EDI
2 3 (6.00%) OpenMP
3 2 (4.00%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 37 (74.00%) Algorithms
2 12 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (24.00%) Molecular Biology
3 3 (6.00%) CUDA
3 3 (6.00%) Fat Client
3 3 (6.00%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.00%) Acoustics
4 1 (2.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 27 (54.00%) Linux
2 13 (26.00%) Unix
3 12 (24.00%) Debian
4 3 (6.00%) VMS
4 3 (6.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Physics
2 23 (46.00%) Open Source
3 22 (44.00%) Computer Science
3 22 (44.00%) Mathematics
4 17 (34.00%) Software Engineering
5 15 (30.00%) Data Analysis
6 13 (26.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 13 (26.00%) Bioinformatics
6 13 (26.00%) Disruptive Innovation
7 12 (24.00%) Biology
7 12 (24.00%) Commercialisation
7 12 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (24.00%) Customer Analysis
7 12 (24.00%) Informatics
7 12 (24.00%) Workflow
7 12 (24.00%) Workflow Management
8 10 (20.00%) Parallel Programming
8 10 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
8 10 (20.00%) SDLC
8 10 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (70.00%) Python
2 23 (46.00%) C++
3 16 (32.00%) C
4 15 (30.00%) Fortran
5 13 (26.00%) Bash
6 11 (22.00%) C#
7 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (14.00%) TypeScript
8 6 (12.00%) Java
9 4 (8.00%) MATLAB
10 3 (6.00%) C-shell
10 3 (6.00%) Rust
11 1 (2.00%) AWK
11 1 (2.00%) sed
11 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (100.00%) Degree
2 41 (82.00%) Master's Degree
3 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
4 14 (28.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (14.00%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (8.00%) Postgraduate
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
7 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (6.00%) CCNA
7 3 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
1 3 (6.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Qubit
2 3 (6.00%) IBM
2 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) PayPal