PhD Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 419 328 443
Rank change year-on-year -91 +115 -47
Permanent jobs citing PhD 384 561 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.94% 0.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.97% 2.58% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 241 118 164
10th Percentile £34,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,656 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £78,375
UK median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,521 21,762 22,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.50% 36.31% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12,237 8,104 10,275
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PhD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PhD in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in the UK excluding London

PhD
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
South East -8 165 £58,000 -3.33% 75
Scotland -44 74 £85,000 -15.00% 14
East of England -49 64 £70,000 -12.50% 62
North of England +33 33 £80,000 -8.57% 33
North West +21 22 £80,000 -8.57% 25
Midlands -9 18 £52,500 -8.70% 36
South West -52 16 £68,750 +50.27% 20
West Midlands +8 12 £55,000 - 22
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 3
Yorkshire +50 6 £37,500 - 6
East Midlands -17 6 £36,250 -36.96% 14
North East - 5 £55,000 - 2
Wales -37 2 £100,000 +100.00% 10
PhD
UK

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (0.78%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.52%) SAS
3 1 (0.26%) Apache
3 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.26%) Luigi
Applications
1 11 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.56%) Simulink
2 6 (1.56%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (8.33%) Figma
1 32 (8.33%) SurveyMonkey
2 21 (5.47%) AWS
3 17 (4.43%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (2.86%) Azure
5 9 (2.34%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.04%) SaaS
7 2 (0.52%) GCP
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.26%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.26%) GitHub
8 1 (0.26%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 7 (1.82%) HTTP
2 7 (1.82%) MQTT
3 3 (0.78%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (0.78%) Wireless
4 2 (0.52%) Internet
4 2 (0.52%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.34%) Power BI
2 9 (2.34%) Tableau
3 7 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.56%) Big Data
5 3 (0.78%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.26%) Bigtable
7 1 (0.26%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.26%) MySQL
7 1 (0.26%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 21 (5.47%) Git
2 6 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.04%) CMake
3 4 (1.04%) IntelliJ
3 4 (1.04%) JUnit
3 4 (1.04%) Mockito
4 3 (0.78%) GitLab
4 3 (0.78%) JIRA
4 3 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (0.78%) TestRail
5 2 (0.52%) GDB
5 2 (0.52%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
General
1 101 (26.30%) Social Skills
2 71 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (18.23%) Finance
4 60 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (15.36%) Marketing
6 55 (14.32%) Law
7 32 (8.33%) Social Science
8 30 (7.81%) Pharmaceutical
9 23 (5.99%) Electronics
10 12 (3.13%) Legal
11 10 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 8 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 8 (2.08%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.30%) Games
15 4 (1.04%) Aeronautics
15 4 (1.04%) Automotive
16 3 (0.78%) Banking
16 3 (0.78%) Public Sector
17 2 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (20.05%) Senior
2 72 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 47 (12.24%) Data Scientist
4 44 (11.46%) Lead
5 43 (11.20%) Developer
6 30 (7.81%) Senior Data Scientist
7 29 (7.55%) Graduate
8 20 (5.21%) Software Developer
9 19 (4.95%) Architect
10 15 (3.91%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (3.39%) Business Manager
11 13 (3.39%) Senior Developer
11 13 (3.39%) User Experience Researcher
12 12 (3.13%) Business Development Manager
12 12 (3.13%) Development Manager
12 12 (3.13%) Junior
12 12 (3.13%) Physicist
13 11 (2.86%) Lead Data Scientist
14 9 (2.34%) Principal Data Scientist
14 9 (2.34%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.25%) TensorFlow
2 23 (5.99%) PyTorch
3 21 (5.47%) OpenMP
4 15 (3.91%) OpenACC
5 12 (3.13%) NumPy
5 12 (3.13%) Web Services
6 11 (2.86%) REST
7 10 (2.60%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.60%) OpenCV
7 10 (2.60%) RESTful
7 10 (2.60%) scikit-learn
8 8 (2.08%) Node.js
9 7 (1.82%) .NET
9 7 (1.82%) HTML
9 7 (1.82%) Kafka
9 7 (1.82%) OpenCL
9 7 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.56%) Pandas
11 5 (1.30%) HTML5
11 5 (1.30%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 157 (40.89%) Algorithms
2 31 (8.07%) CUDA
3 29 (7.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 27 (7.03%) Market Risk
5 24 (6.25%) Data Structures
6 21 (5.47%) FPGA
6 21 (5.47%) Life Science
7 17 (4.43%) VHDL
8 13 (3.39%) Analogue Electronics
8 13 (3.39%) Product Ownership
9 12 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
9 12 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
9 12 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.34%) Taxonomies
11 8 (2.08%) IoT
12 7 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
13 6 (1.56%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.56%) Robotics
14 5 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 63 (16.41%) Linux
2 33 (8.59%) Unix
3 5 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (42.71%) Computer Science
2 142 (36.98%) Mathematics
3 111 (28.91%) Physics
4 106 (27.60%) Machine Learning
5 103 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
6 96 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 81 (21.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 61 (15.89%) Data Science
9 49 (12.76%) Parallel Programming
10 46 (11.98%) Psychology
11 45 (11.72%) Anthropology
11 45 (11.72%) Cognitive Science
11 45 (11.72%) Fintech
11 45 (11.72%) User Experience
11 45 (11.72%) User Research
11 45 (11.72%) UX Research
12 43 (11.20%) Actionable Insight
12 43 (11.20%) Interaction Design
12 43 (11.20%) Qualitative Research
12 43 (11.20%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 181 (47.14%) Python
2 90 (23.44%) C
3 85 (22.14%) C++
4 62 (16.15%) Fortran
4 62 (16.15%) R
5 60 (15.63%) Java
6 35 (9.11%) SQL
7 32 (8.33%) C#
8 23 (5.99%) MATLAB
9 22 (5.73%) Bash
10 13 (3.39%) Rust
11 12 (3.13%) JavaScript
12 7 (1.82%) Haskell
13 6 (1.56%) Perl
14 5 (1.30%) Go
15 4 (1.04%) AWK
15 4 (1.04%) sed
15 4 (1.04%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.04%) VB
16 3 (0.78%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 374 (97.40%) Degree
2 247 (64.32%) Master's Degree
3 58 (15.10%) Security Cleared
4 42 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (5.73%) SC Cleared
6 19 (4.95%) MBA
7 14 (3.65%) DV Cleared
8 10 (2.60%) CFA
8 10 (2.60%) CIMA
9 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.26%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.47%) QA
2 11 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.60%) GDPR
4 9 (2.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 9 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.52%) ECSS
5 2 (0.52%) GLP
5 2 (0.52%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 22 (5.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.30%) Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.04%) Ansible
2 4 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (8.33%) Qualtrics
2 19 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 9 (2.34%) Google
4 7 (1.82%) ANSYS
5 6 (1.56%) NVIDIA
5 6 (1.56%) OpenAI
6 3 (0.78%) Databricks
7 1 (0.26%) Interwoven
7 1 (0.26%) Keysight
7 1 (0.26%) Qubit
7 1 (0.26%) Thales
7 1 (0.26%) YouTube