PhD Jobs in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PhD qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 445 407
Rank change year-on-year +88 -38 -33
Permanent jobs citing PhD 153 186 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.65% 0.55% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.27% 2.12% 4.30%
Number of salaries quoted 95 140 232
10th Percentile £46,450 £57,375 £57,900
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,054 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £82,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,625 £132,500
90th Percentile £127,000 £130,000 £152,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,752 8,794 14,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.55% 26.16% 21.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4,234 5,536 6,743
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £104,806
England median annual salary £54,700 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.83% +9.09% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in London

PhD
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for PhD in London

PhD
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in London

PhD
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London +83 45 £92,500 +42.31% 8
PhD
England

PhD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.31%) Apache
2 2 (1.31%) SAS
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.65%) Blender
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.42%) AWS
2 17 (11.11%) Azure
2 17 (11.11%) GCP
3 6 (3.92%) GitHub
4 4 (2.61%) Dagster
5 3 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.96%) Serverless
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.31%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (1.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.31%) OCI
6 2 (1.31%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.31%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.65%) ChatGPT
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.23%) Big Data
2 6 (3.92%) Hadoop
2 6 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.27%) Neo4j
3 5 (3.27%) Tableau
4 4 (2.61%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.96%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.31%) Power BI
6 2 (1.31%) Text Mining
7 1 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Git
2 6 (3.92%) GitLab
3 4 (2.61%) Snakemake
4 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.31%) JUnit
5 2 (1.31%) MLflow
5 2 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.31%) TensorBoard
6 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 65 (42.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.57%) Finance
3 24 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (15.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (7.84%) Health Technology
4 12 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.23%) Law
5 8 (5.23%) Marketing
5 8 (5.23%) Retail
6 5 (3.27%) Banking
6 5 (3.27%) Front Office
7 3 (1.96%) Games
8 2 (1.31%) Advertising
8 2 (1.31%) Electronics
8 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.31%) Humanities
8 2 (1.31%) Social Science
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (18.30%) Analyst
2 27 (17.65%) Data Scientist
2 27 (17.65%) Senior
3 19 (12.42%) Developer
4 17 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
5 14 (9.15%) Quantitative Developer
6 11 (7.19%) Qualitative Analyst
6 11 (7.19%) Quantitative Analyst
7 9 (5.88%) Lead
8 7 (4.58%) Data Science Director
9 6 (3.92%) Graduate
10 5 (3.27%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Junior
10 5 (3.27%) Operations Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) Risk Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) Senior Manager
10 5 (3.27%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Statistician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.99%) PyTorch
2 20 (13.07%) TensorFlow
3 10 (6.54%) Kafka
4 9 (5.88%) scikit-learn
5 6 (3.92%) .NET
6 5 (3.27%) Keras
7 4 (2.61%) Apache Beam
7 4 (2.61%) NumPy
8 2 (1.31%) Apache Commons
8 2 (1.31%) Django
8 2 (1.31%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.31%) Flask
8 2 (1.31%) Gensim
8 2 (1.31%) ggplot
8 2 (1.31%) Matplotlib
8 2 (1.31%) NLTK
8 2 (1.31%) OpenMP
8 2 (1.31%) SpaCy
8 2 (1.31%) XGBoost
9 1 (0.65%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.45%) Algorithms
2 32 (20.92%) Life Science
3 11 (7.19%) Hedge funds
4 10 (6.54%) Client/Server
5 9 (5.88%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.27%) Blog
7 5 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (2.61%) Omics
9 3 (1.96%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.96%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.96%) CUDA
9 3 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.96%) IoT
9 3 (1.96%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.31%) Social Network
10 2 (1.31%) Verilog
10 2 (1.31%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.27%) Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (54.90%) Computer Science
2 76 (49.67%) Data Science
3 60 (39.22%) Mathematics
4 58 (37.91%) Machine Learning
4 58 (37.91%) Statistics
5 47 (30.72%) Artificial Intelligence
6 35 (22.88%) Software Engineering
7 32 (20.92%) Analytics
8 29 (18.95%) Physics
9 25 (16.34%) Deep Learning
9 25 (16.34%) Natural Language Processing
9 25 (16.34%) Visualisation
10 24 (15.69%) Agile
10 24 (15.69%) Data Visualisation
11 18 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
11 18 (11.76%) Decision-Making
12 17 (11.11%) Biotechnology
12 17 (11.11%) Business Development
12 17 (11.11%) LLM
12 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 103 (67.32%) Python
2 46 (30.07%) SQL
3 31 (20.26%) C++
4 28 (18.30%) R
5 22 (14.38%) Java
6 20 (13.07%) C#
7 12 (7.84%) C
8 8 (5.23%) MATLAB
9 5 (3.27%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.61%) Bash
11 2 (1.31%) Go
11 2 (1.31%) Rust
12 1 (0.65%) Ada
12 1 (0.65%) Ruby
12 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 152 (99.35%) Degree
2 118 (77.12%) Master's Degree
3 9 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.31%) CREST Certified
5 2 (1.31%) OSCE
5 2 (1.31%) OSCP
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.65%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (5.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) IAG
Systems Management
1 14 (9.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.23%) Kubeflow
3 5 (3.27%) Argo
3 5 (3.27%) Terraform
4 2 (1.31%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 6 (3.92%) Google
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.61%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle
3 2 (1.31%) SAP
4 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.65%) Samsung