Physics Contracts in England

Physics
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Physics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Physics over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 529 629
Rank change year-on-year +58 +100 -93
Contract jobs citing Physics 60 117 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.27% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 64 84
10th Percentile £313 £147 £173
25th Percentile £413 £526 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £713
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £881 £819 £925
90th Percentile £950 £968 £950
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £700
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 14
10th Percentile £40.90 £19.00 -
25th Percentile £54.75 £20.47 £19.52
Median hourly rate £59.50 £55.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% +57.50% -6.67%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £46.01
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £19.91
% change year-on-year +13.33% +163.69% -46.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Physics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Physics in England

Physics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Physics in England.

Daily rate trend for Physics in England

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physics in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Physics in England

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Physics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Physics in England

Physics
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Physics in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Physics in England

Physics
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +57 34 £850 +21.43% 177
South East +11 9 £355 +140.68% 162
East of England +7 7 - - 71
West Midlands - 7 £320 - 28
Midlands - 7 £320 - 44
North of England +30 1 £650 - 33
North West +16 1 £650 - 20
South West +5 1 £700 +55.56% 39
Physics
UK

Physics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (13.33%) SAS
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Simulink
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (5.00%) SPSS
5 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.33%) Stateflow
6 1 (1.67%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.67%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.33%) AWS
1 2 (3.33%) Azure
2 1 (1.67%) Azure Batch
2 1 (1.67%) GCP
2 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (5.00%) Tableau
2 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) Big Data
3 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Visual Studio
2 6 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (3.33%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (1.67%) JIRA
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Subversion
4 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (25.00%) Banking
5 11 (18.33%) Front Office
6 10 (16.67%) Investment Banking
7 6 (10.00%) Aerospace
8 5 (8.33%) Marketing
9 4 (6.67%) Automotive
9 4 (6.67%) Electronics
9 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
10 3 (5.00%) Advertising
10 3 (5.00%) Games
10 3 (5.00%) Legal
10 3 (5.00%) Military
10 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (5.00%) Retail
11 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (3.33%) Multimedia
11 2 (3.33%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Analyst
2 13 (21.67%) Developer
3 11 (18.33%) Qualitative Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) Quantitative Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) Quantitative Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Credit Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) React Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Data Scientist
7 3 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.00%) RF Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior
8 2 (3.33%) C++ Developer
8 2 (3.33%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) E-Commerce Manager
8 2 (3.33%) E-Commerce Product Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) CSS
1 5 (8.33%) HTML
2 4 (6.67%) React
3 3 (5.00%) D3.js
4 2 (3.33%) NumPy
4 2 (3.33%) Pandas
4 2 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (1.67%) Dask
5 1 (1.67%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.67%) GStreamer
5 1 (1.67%) HTML5
5 1 (1.67%) Keras
5 1 (1.67%) OSGi
5 1 (1.67%) Plotly
5 1 (1.67%) PySpark
5 1 (1.67%) pytest
5 1 (1.67%) SciPy
5 1 (1.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (23.33%) Algorithms
2 13 (21.67%) Derivative
3 11 (18.33%) Fixed Income
4 10 (16.67%) Hedge funds
5 8 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (10.00%) Credit Derivative
6 6 (10.00%) Equities
7 4 (6.67%) Credit Risk
7 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
7 4 (6.67%) Infotainment
8 3 (5.00%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
9 2 (3.33%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (3.33%) Mobile Games
10 1 (1.67%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (1.67%) Animation
10 1 (1.67%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (1.67%) Digital TV
10 1 (1.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 5 (8.33%) Unix
2 5 (8.33%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Android
3 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (70.00%) Mathematics
2 23 (38.33%) Computer Science
3 18 (30.00%) Statistics
4 16 (26.67%) Quantitative Finance
5 14 (23.33%) Analytics
6 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
7 10 (16.67%) Validation
8 9 (15.00%) Data Analysis
8 9 (15.00%) Data Science
8 9 (15.00%) Model Validation
9 8 (13.33%) Agile
10 7 (11.67%) Product Strategy
11 6 (10.00%) Machine Learning
11 6 (10.00%) Numerical Analysis
12 5 (8.33%) Design Patterns
12 5 (8.33%) Mathematical Modelling
13 4 (6.67%) Battery Management
13 4 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
13 4 (6.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (60.00%) Python
2 23 (38.33%) C++
3 14 (23.33%) MATLAB
4 8 (13.33%) C#
4 8 (13.33%) Java
4 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.33%) R
4 8 (13.33%) SQL
5 5 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.67%) C
6 4 (6.67%) Perl
6 4 (6.67%) VBA
7 3 (5.00%) Fortran
8 2 (3.33%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.67%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.67%) Scala
9 1 (1.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 47 (78.33%) Degree
2 18 (30.00%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 9 (15.00%) Master's Degree
5 7 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (11.67%) PhD
6 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.33%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.00%) Keysight
2 2 (3.33%) CA
2 2 (3.33%) MathWorks
3 1 (1.67%) Adobe
3 1 (1.67%) Databricks
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft