Physics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 575 687
Rank change year-on-year +48 +112 -86
Contract jobs citing Physics 59 123 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 60 89
10th Percentile £313 £146 £140
25th Percentile £413 £580 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +1.85% +8.43%
75th Percentile £881 £819 £925
90th Percentile £950 £953 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £148 £388
% change year-on-year +157.63% -61.94% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 23
10th Percentile - £19.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.75 £20.47 £19.52
Median hourly rate £59.75 £53.75 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +11.16% +169.96% -45.82%
75th Percentile £67.81 £65.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £48.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £55.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +8.18% +181.76% -53.70%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physics over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Physics in the UK

Physics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Physics in the UK

Physics
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Physics within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +51 58 £700 +1.82% 361
London +52 33 £850 +17.24% 120
Work from Home +110 27 £775 +425.42% 136
UK excluding London +46 24 £380 +157.63% 252
South East +7 8 £355 +140.68% 97
East of England +3 7 - - 56
West Midlands - 7 £320 - 21
Midlands - 7 £320 - 37
North of England +24 1 £650 - 28
North West +22 1 £650 - 20
South West +8 1 £700 +55.56% 23

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 7 (11.86%) SAS
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Simulink
2 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.78%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (5.08%) SPSS
5 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.39%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.69%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 2 (3.39%) AWS
1 2 (3.39%) Azure
1 2 (3.39%) GCP
2 1 (1.69%) Azure Batch
2 1 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (5.08%) Tableau
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.69%) Big Data
3 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Visual Studio
2 5 (8.47%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (3.39%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (1.69%) JIRA
4 1 (1.69%) Maven
4 1 (1.69%) Subversion
4 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (38.98%) Finance
2 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (25.42%) Banking
5 11 (18.64%) Front Office
6 10 (16.95%) Investment Banking
7 6 (10.17%) Aerospace
8 4 (6.78%) Automotive
8 4 (6.78%) Electronics
8 4 (6.78%) Manufacturing
8 4 (6.78%) Marketing
9 3 (5.08%) Advertising
9 3 (5.08%) Games
9 3 (5.08%) Legal
9 3 (5.08%) Military
9 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (5.08%) Retail
10 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (3.39%) Law
10 2 (3.39%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Analyst
2 13 (22.03%) Developer
3 11 (18.64%) Qualitative Analyst
3 11 (18.64%) Quantitative Analyst
4 7 (11.86%) Quantitative Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Credit Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) React Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Data Scientist
7 3 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Product Manager
7 3 (5.08%) RF Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior
8 2 (3.39%) C++ Developer
8 2 (3.39%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Credit Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) E-Commerce Manager
8 2 (3.39%) E-Commerce Product Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) CSS
1 5 (8.47%) HTML
2 4 (6.78%) D3.js
2 4 (6.78%) React
3 2 (3.39%) NumPy
3 2 (3.39%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (1.69%) CSS3
4 1 (1.69%) Dask
4 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.69%) GStreamer
4 1 (1.69%) HTML5
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) Keras
4 1 (1.69%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 1 (1.69%) OSGi
4 1 (1.69%) Pandas
4 1 (1.69%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.69%) SciPy
4 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.69%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) Algorithms
2 13 (22.03%) Derivative
3 11 (18.64%) Fixed Income
4 10 (16.95%) Hedge funds
5 8 (13.56%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (13.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (10.17%) Credit Derivative
6 6 (10.17%) Equities
7 4 (6.78%) Credit Risk
7 4 (6.78%) Data Structures
7 4 (6.78%) Infotainment
8 3 (5.08%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (5.08%) Management Information System
9 2 (3.39%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (3.39%) Mobile Games
10 1 (1.69%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (1.69%) Animation
10 1 (1.69%) Digital TV
10 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (1.69%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Unix
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
3 2 (3.39%) Android
3 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (69.49%) Mathematics
2 22 (37.29%) Computer Science
3 18 (30.51%) Statistics
4 16 (27.12%) Quantitative Finance
5 14 (23.73%) Analytics
6 11 (18.64%) Analytical Modelling
6 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.95%) Validation
8 9 (15.25%) Data Science
8 9 (15.25%) Model Validation
9 8 (13.56%) Agile
9 8 (13.56%) Data Analysis
10 7 (11.86%) Product Strategy
11 6 (10.17%) Machine Learning
11 6 (10.17%) Numerical Analysis
12 5 (8.47%) Design Patterns
12 5 (8.47%) Mathematical Modelling
12 5 (8.47%) Use Case
13 4 (6.78%) Battery Management
13 4 (6.78%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (59.32%) Python
2 23 (38.98%) C++
3 14 (23.73%) MATLAB
4 8 (13.56%) C#
4 8 (13.56%) Java
4 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.56%) R
4 8 (13.56%) SQL
5 5 (8.47%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.78%) C
6 4 (6.78%) Perl
6 4 (6.78%) VBA
7 3 (5.08%) Fortran
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.69%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) XAML
Qualifications
1 47 (79.66%) Degree
2 19 (32.20%) Numerate Degree
3 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
4 8 (13.56%) Master's Degree
5 7 (11.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (10.17%) PhD
7 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.39%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Docker
1 1 (1.69%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Ansible
1 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.08%) Keysight
2 2 (3.39%) CA
2 2 (3.39%) MathWorks
3 1 (1.69%) Adobe
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft