Physics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Physics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Physics over the 6 months leading up to 19 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 365 411
Rank change year-on-year +256 +46 +30
Permanent jobs citing Physics 1,585 578 880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.64% 0.75% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 0.85% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 423 420 291
10th Percentile - £27,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,732
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.73% -3.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,313 £84,375
90th Percentile £82,500 £97,500 £125,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £51,528 £44,345
% change year-on-year -8.79% +16.20% -11.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Physics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55,992 68,309 104,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.42% 88.68% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25,152 50,933 63,892
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,485 £34,324
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +7.61%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Physics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Physics.

Salary trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Physics over the 6 months to 19 February 2025.

Salary histogram for Physics in the UK

Physics
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the UK over the 6 months to 19 February 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
UK excluding London +243 1,448 £47,000 -8.79% 297
England +256 1,336 £50,055 -8.99% 449
North of England +224 347 £52,424 +1.74% 56
South East +112 341 £52,000 -5.45% 116
Midlands +175 257 £40,101 -30.26% 32
North West +120 187 £54,793 +39.67% 16
South West +136 184 £46,500 +16.25% 30
Scotland +94 168 £40,101 -23.62% 17
Yorkshire +147 160 £40,101 -22.18% 39
East Midlands +104 134 £40,101 -30.26% 11
West Midlands +100 123 £31,000 -51.37% 15
East of England +68 111 £50,000 +33.33% 45
London +18 96 £90,000 +12.50% 212
Work from Home +4 77 £52,500 +10.53% 207
Wales +70 40 £40,101 -22.18% 15

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 36 (2.27%) Apache
2 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.13%) Confluence
3 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.063%) SAS
Applications
1 133 (8.39%) Simulink
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.19%) CANalyzer
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 109 (6.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (1.32%) AWS
2 17 (1.07%) Azure
3 9 (0.57%) Amazon SageMaker
4 6 (0.38%) GitHub
5 3 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.19%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.13%) GCP
7 1 (0.063%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.063%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.063%) dbt
7 1 (0.063%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.063%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.32%) RS-485
3 4 (0.25%) 5G
3 4 (0.25%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.25%) WAN
4 3 (0.19%) Bluetooth
4 3 (0.19%) J1939
5 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.13%) Firewall
5 2 (0.13%) SSL
5 2 (0.13%) VPN
5 2 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.063%) LAN
6 1 (0.063%) Link 16
6 1 (0.063%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.063%) Wireless
6 1 (0.063%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (0.38%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.32%) Tableau
4 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.19%) Tick Data
6 2 (0.13%) Power BI
6 2 (0.13%) Redis
7 1 (0.063%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.063%) KDB
7 1 (0.063%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.063%) Looker
7 1 (0.063%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 119 (7.51%) Rational DOORS
2 45 (2.84%) Git
3 44 (2.78%) JIRA
4 40 (2.52%) Visual Studio
5 35 (2.21%) Eclipse
5 35 (2.21%) Eclipse RCP
6 12 (0.76%) Subversion
7 8 (0.50%) Rational Rhapsody
8 7 (0.44%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.44%) LabVIEW
9 5 (0.32%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.25%) GitLab
11 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.13%) CMake
12 2 (0.13%) Mercurial
12 2 (0.13%) TestRail
13 1 (0.063%) PostCSS
13 1 (0.063%) rollup.js
13 1 (0.063%) Vite
General
1 288 (18.17%) Social Skills
2 282 (17.79%) Electronics
3 268 (16.91%) Presentation Skills
4 176 (11.10%) Law
5 175 (11.04%) Aerospace
6 94 (5.93%) Marketing
7 93 (5.87%) Manufacturing
8 53 (3.34%) Finance
9 44 (2.78%) Aeronautics
10 41 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
11 39 (2.46%) Avionics
12 29 (1.83%) Automotive
13 27 (1.70%) Military
14 18 (1.14%) Banking
15 12 (0.76%) Retail
16 11 (0.69%) Legal
17 9 (0.57%) Advertising
17 9 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
19 5 (0.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 629 (39.68%) Principal Engineer
2 522 (32.93%) Senior
3 322 (20.32%) Configuration Management Engineer
3 322 (20.32%) SCM Engineer
4 290 (18.30%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 229 (14.45%) Systems Engineer
6 217 (13.69%) Senior Manager
7 215 (13.56%) Engineering Manager
8 156 (9.84%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 148 (9.34%) Junior
10 130 (8.20%) Integration Engineer
11 128 (8.08%) Systems Integration Engineer
12 127 (8.01%) Software Engineer
12 127 (8.01%) System Verification Engineer
12 127 (8.01%) Validation Engineer
13 109 (6.88%) Junior Systems Engineer
14 48 (3.03%) Developer
15 47 (2.97%) Help Desk Manager
15 47 (2.97%) Lead
15 47 (2.97%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (3.34%) HTML
2 41 (2.59%) CSS
3 35 (2.21%) JSP
3 35 (2.21%) Middleware
4 26 (1.64%) WPF
5 21 (1.32%) .NET
6 20 (1.26%) WinForms
7 14 (0.88%) React
8 13 (0.82%) Node.js
8 13 (0.82%) scikit-learn
8 13 (0.82%) TensorFlow
9 12 (0.76%) NumPy
9 12 (0.76%) OpenGL
10 10 (0.63%) PyTorch
10 10 (0.63%) Vulkan
11 8 (0.50%) AngularJS
11 8 (0.50%) Google JAX
11 8 (0.50%) JAX
12 6 (0.38%) Pandas
12 6 (0.38%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 71 (4.48%) Algorithms
2 19 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (0.69%) CUDA
5 9 (0.57%) 3D Graphics
5 9 (0.57%) Management Information System
6 8 (0.50%) Embedded Systems
7 7 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (0.44%) FPGA
7 7 (0.44%) Life Science
7 7 (0.44%) Online Banking
8 6 (0.38%) Fixed Income
8 6 (0.38%) Verilog
9 5 (0.32%) Distributed Architecture
9 5 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (0.32%) Equities
9 5 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.25%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.25%) Self-Driving Car
11 3 (0.19%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 120 (7.57%) Linux
2 69 (4.35%) Windows
3 21 (1.32%) Unix
4 8 (0.50%) VxWorks
5 3 (0.19%) Android
6 1 (0.063%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,286 (81.14%) Mathematics
2 563 (35.52%) Coaching
2 563 (35.52%) Systems Engineering
3 422 (26.62%) Chemistry
4 392 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
5 348 (21.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 333 (21.01%) Configuration Management
7 325 (20.50%) Waterfall
8 323 (20.38%) Release Management
9 304 (19.18%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 262 (16.53%) Computer Science
11 242 (15.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 211 (13.31%) Collaborative Working
13 195 (12.30%) Validation
14 167 (10.54%) Logistics
15 160 (10.09%) Verification and Validation
16 159 (10.03%) UML
17 153 (9.65%) Software Engineering
18 118 (7.44%) SysML
19 113 (7.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 176 (11.10%) Python
2 152 (9.59%) MATLAB
3 116 (7.32%) C++
4 112 (7.07%) C#
5 96 (6.06%) C
6 83 (5.24%) Java
7 60 (3.79%) SQL
8 40 (2.52%) Rust
9 31 (1.96%) JavaScript
10 27 (1.70%) Fortran
11 24 (1.51%) Ada
12 22 (1.39%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.01%) Bash
14 6 (0.38%) R
15 5 (0.32%) Clojure
16 4 (0.25%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.25%) XAML
17 3 (0.19%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.19%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.13%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 1,521 (95.96%) Degree
2 381 (24.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 338 (21.32%) Chartered Engineer
4 80 (5.05%) Master's Degree
5 70 (4.42%) PhD
6 41 (2.59%) Numerate Degree
7 37 (2.33%) Security Cleared
8 25 (1.58%) HND
9 23 (1.45%) SC Cleared
10 18 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (0.32%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.19%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.13%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 1 (0.063%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (1.01%) ARP4754
1 16 (1.01%) DO-254
1 16 (1.01%) IEC 61508
2 9 (0.57%) QA
3 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.32%) WAI
5 4 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (0.19%) IEC 62304
6 3 (0.19%) ISO 13485
6 3 (0.19%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.13%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.063%) IFRS
8 1 (0.063%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 11 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.44%) Terraform
3 4 (0.25%) Ansible
4 2 (0.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 322 (20.32%) Micro Focus
2 109 (6.88%) IBM
3 47 (2.97%) Microsoft
4 12 (0.76%) Siemens
5 8 (0.50%) Wind River
6 5 (0.32%) EMC
7 3 (0.19%) Databricks
7 3 (0.19%) Intel
8 2 (0.13%) Allen-Bradley
8 2 (0.13%) Google
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle
8 2 (0.13%) Qubit
8 2 (0.13%) Wonderware
9 1 (0.063%) Apple
9 1 (0.063%) Foundry
9 1 (0.063%) Palantir
9 1 (0.063%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.063%) SAP
9 1 (0.063%) Telcordia