Physics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 356 337 463
Rank change year-on-year -19 +126 -39
Permanent jobs citing Physics 439 1,310 864
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.07% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.11% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 256 339 374
10th Percentile £31,925 £29,850 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,276 £36,953 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £99,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £46,205 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.52% -7.59% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Physics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,863 117,613 122,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.11% 95.75% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36,022 72,003 82,155
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,680 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +4.17%

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Physics in the UK

Physics
Top 16 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 7 December 2023. 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
England -44 320 £62,500 +13.64% 450
UK excluding London -58 273 £51,528 +11.52% 330
London +84 118 £85,000 +17.24% 155
Work from Home -39 112 £55,000 -8.33% 162
South East -37 81 £52,777 +20.50% 133
North of England +151 59 £51,528 +16.20% 21
Scotland +15 50 £52,500 -7.08% 30
North West +127 36 £51,500 -1.90% 15
South West -12 30 £71,200 +86.02% 38
Yorkshire +105 23 £51,528 +30.37% 5
Midlands +35 21 £32,500 -30.85% 29
East Midlands +59 15 £40,000 +5.59% 12
Wales -17 12 £51,528 - 3
East of England +18 11 £35,000 -24.25% 84
Northern Ireland +30 9 £35,000 - 2
West Midlands +29 6 £30,000 -36.17% 17

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 20 (4.56%) SAS
2 14 (3.19%) Apache
2 14 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 10 (2.28%) Simulink
2 2 (0.46%) CATIA
2 2 (0.46%) EViews
2 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.46%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 163 (37.13%) Azure
2 111 (25.28%) AWS
3 97 (22.10%) GCP
4 56 (12.76%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (2.51%) PowerApps
7 9 (2.05%) SaaS
8 8 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (1.82%) Power Automate
9 7 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (1.59%) Azure AKS
9 7 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (1.59%) Datadog
9 7 (1.59%) GitHub
9 7 (1.59%) Serverless
10 3 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (0.68%) IaaS
10 3 (0.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.20%) Wireless
2 13 (2.96%) 5G
2 13 (2.96%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.28%) Software-Defined Radio
4 9 (2.05%) SD-WAN
4 9 (2.05%) WAN
5 4 (0.91%) LTE
5 4 (0.91%) MIMO
6 3 (0.68%) 3GPP
6 3 (0.68%) 5G NR
6 3 (0.68%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.46%) MQTT
7 2 (0.46%) Network Security
8 1 (0.23%) Intranet
8 1 (0.23%) RS-232
8 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.01%) Data Warehouse
1 22 (5.01%) Power BI
2 9 (2.05%) Data Lake
3 8 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (1.82%) Tick Data
4 7 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.14%) Big Data
6 4 (0.91%) Looker
6 4 (0.91%) Tableau
7 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.23%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.23%) DTS
7 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (3.19%) Git
2 8 (1.82%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.59%) Artifactory
3 7 (1.59%) GitLab
3 7 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.14%) gulp
4 5 (1.14%) PostCSS
4 5 (1.14%) rollup.js
4 5 (1.14%) Subversion
4 5 (1.14%) Vite
5 4 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.91%) TestComplete
6 3 (0.68%) Calabash
6 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.68%) Selenium
6 3 (0.68%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.68%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 105 (23.92%) Telecoms
2 95 (21.64%) Social Skills
3 75 (17.08%) Finance
4 39 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (8.88%) Banking
5 37 (8.43%) Retail
6 31 (7.06%) Electronics
7 29 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (5.01%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (4.10%) Manufacturing
10 17 (3.87%) Aerospace
10 17 (3.87%) Games
11 13 (2.96%) Law
12 12 (2.73%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.28%) Marketing
15 8 (1.82%) Retail Finance
16 7 (1.59%) Front Office
16 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 100 (22.78%) Architect
2 97 (22.10%) Solutions Architect
3 90 (20.50%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 89 (20.27%) Enterprise Architect
5 87 (19.82%) Analyst
6 64 (14.58%) Senior
7 47 (10.71%) Developer
8 40 (9.11%) Software Engineer
9 39 (8.88%) Junior
10 31 (7.06%) Qualitative Analyst
10 31 (7.06%) Quantitative Analyst
11 30 (6.83%) Graduate
12 23 (5.24%) Junior Analyst
12 23 (5.24%) Junior Quantitative Analyst
13 21 (4.78%) Embedded Engineer
14 20 (4.56%) Lead
15 15 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
16 14 (3.19%) Business Analyst
16 14 (3.19%) Firmware Engineer
17 12 (2.73%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (2.96%) .NET
2 9 (2.05%) HTML
3 8 (1.82%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.82%) CSS
4 7 (1.59%) .NET Framework
4 7 (1.59%) JSON
4 7 (1.59%) OpenMP
4 7 (1.59%) YAML
5 6 (1.37%) EDI
5 6 (1.37%) ModSecurity
5 6 (1.37%) WebGL
6 5 (1.14%) HTML5
6 5 (1.14%) HTML5 Canvas
6 5 (1.14%) Pixi.js
6 5 (1.14%) Sass
6 5 (1.14%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (1.14%) WPF
7 3 (0.68%) SOAP
7 3 (0.68%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 2 (0.46%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.57%) Algorithms
2 24 (5.47%) Credit Risk
3 23 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (3.42%) Embedded Systems
4 15 (3.42%) FPGA
4 15 (3.42%) VHDL
5 13 (2.96%) Hedge funds
6 12 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.82%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.59%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.59%) Equities
9 7 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.14%) Analogue Electronics
11 5 (1.14%) Animation
11 5 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.14%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 50 (11.39%) Linux
2 11 (2.51%) Unix
3 6 (1.37%) Windows
4 4 (0.91%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (79.95%) Mathematics
2 271 (61.73%) Computer Science
3 150 (34.17%) Validation
4 149 (33.94%) Agile
5 114 (25.97%) Cybersecurity
6 108 (24.60%) DevOps
7 103 (23.46%) Enterprise Architecture
8 95 (21.64%) Model Validation
9 92 (20.96%) Software Architecture
10 91 (20.73%) Actionable Insight
10 91 (20.73%) TOGAF
11 89 (20.27%) Network Architecture
11 89 (20.27%) Requirements Analysis
11 89 (20.27%) Requirements Management
11 89 (20.27%) Technical Analysis
12 84 (19.13%) Statistics
13 79 (18.00%) Software Engineering
14 74 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
15 67 (15.26%) Scrum
16 63 (14.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 139 (31.66%) Python
2 118 (26.88%) C++
3 57 (12.98%) C
4 52 (11.85%) C#
5 39 (8.88%) SQL
6 38 (8.66%) Java
7 32 (7.29%) MATLAB
7 32 (7.29%) R
8 26 (5.92%) Embedded C
9 22 (5.01%) Bash
10 21 (4.78%) Fortran
11 19 (4.33%) JavaScript
12 15 (3.42%) Bicep
13 10 (2.28%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.59%) Go
14 7 (1.59%) PowerShell
15 6 (1.37%) Perl
16 5 (1.14%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.91%) VB.NET
18 3 (0.68%) Ada
Qualifications
1 348 (79.27%) Degree
2 125 (28.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 94 (21.41%) PhD
4 89 (20.27%) TOGAF Certification
5 85 (19.36%) Master's Degree
6 81 (18.45%) Security Cleared
7 44 (10.02%) SC Cleared
8 18 (4.10%) Azure Certification
8 18 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (3.64%) Numerate Degree
10 13 (2.96%) HND
11 10 (2.28%) DV Cleared
12 7 (1.59%) AWS Certification
12 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 7 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.37%) CISSP
13 6 (1.37%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.37%) Postgraduate
14 5 (1.14%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.01%) IFRS
1 22 (5.01%) IFRS 9
1 22 (5.01%) PMO
2 21 (4.78%) QA
3 14 (3.19%) CRD IV
4 6 (1.37%) JSP 440
4 6 (1.37%) RMADS
5 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.23%) EMIR
6 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 31 (7.06%) Firmware
2 14 (3.19%) Docker
3 11 (2.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.23%) KVM
5 1 (0.23%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 19 (4.33%) Terraform
2 16 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.59%) Ansible
3 7 (1.59%) Argo
3 7 (1.59%) Packer
4 1 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 65 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.82%) SAP
3 7 (1.59%) Splunk
4 6 (1.37%) Google
5 4 (0.91%) Foundry
5 4 (0.91%) OpenAI
5 4 (0.91%) VMware
6 3 (0.68%) Cisco
6 3 (0.68%) Sparx
6 3 (0.68%) Sun
6 3 (0.68%) TOWER Software
7 2 (0.46%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.46%) ANSYS
7 2 (0.46%) Minitab
7 2 (0.46%) Sage
8 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.23%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.23%) Informatica
8 1 (0.23%) Murex
8 1 (0.23%) QAD