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 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 518 570 688
Rank change year-on-year +52 +118 -78
Contract jobs citing Physics 61 124 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 64 87
10th Percentile £313 £147 £206
25th Percentile £413 £526 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £881 £819 £925
90th Percentile £950 £968 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 £148 £400
% change year-on-year +157.63% -63.13% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 24 21
10th Percentile £40.90 £19.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.75 £20.10 £19.52
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +163.69% -46.91%
75th Percentile £66.88 £65.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £45.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year +13.33% +168.95% -54.07%

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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
England +58 60 £700 +3.70% 495
London +57 34 £850 +21.43% 177
Work from Home +109 27 £775 +425.42% 157
UK excluding London +37 25 £380 +157.63% 359
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
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 8 (13.11%) SAS
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Simulink
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.56%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (4.92%) SPSS
5 2 (3.28%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.28%) Stateflow
6 1 (1.64%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.64%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.92%) AWS
2 2 (3.28%) Azure
2 2 (3.28%) GCP
3 1 (1.64%) Azure Batch
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (4.92%) Tableau
2 2 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.64%) Big Data
3 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Visual Studio
2 6 (9.84%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (3.28%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (1.64%) JIRA
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Subversion
4 1 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (37.70%) Finance
2 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 16 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (24.59%) Banking
5 11 (18.03%) Front Office
6 10 (16.39%) Investment Banking
7 6 (9.84%) Aerospace
8 5 (8.20%) Marketing
9 4 (6.56%) Automotive
9 4 (6.56%) Electronics
9 4 (6.56%) Manufacturing
10 3 (4.92%) Advertising
10 3 (4.92%) Games
10 3 (4.92%) Legal
10 3 (4.92%) Military
10 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (4.92%) Retail
11 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (3.28%) Multimedia
11 2 (3.28%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Analyst
2 13 (21.31%) Developer
3 11 (18.03%) Qualitative Analyst
3 11 (18.03%) Quantitative Analyst
4 7 (11.48%) Quantitative Developer
5 6 (9.84%) Credit Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.56%) React Developer
6 4 (6.56%) Senior
7 3 (4.92%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Product Manager
7 3 (4.92%) RF Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) C++ Developer
8 2 (3.28%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 2 (3.28%) Credit Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) E-Commerce Manager
8 2 (3.28%) Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) CSS
1 5 (8.20%) HTML
2 4 (6.56%) D3.js
2 4 (6.56%) React
3 2 (3.28%) NumPy
3 2 (3.28%) Pandas
3 2 (3.28%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.28%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.28%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (1.64%) Dask
4 1 (1.64%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.64%) GStreamer
4 1 (1.64%) HTML5
4 1 (1.64%) Keras
4 1 (1.64%) OSGi
4 1 (1.64%) PySpark
4 1 (1.64%) pytest
4 1 (1.64%) SciPy
4 1 (1.64%) Shiny
4 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Algorithms
2 13 (21.31%) Derivative
3 11 (18.03%) Fixed Income
4 10 (16.39%) Hedge funds
5 8 (13.11%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (13.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (9.84%) Credit Derivative
6 6 (9.84%) Equities
7 4 (6.56%) Credit Risk
7 4 (6.56%) Data Structures
7 4 (6.56%) Infotainment
8 3 (4.92%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
9 2 (3.28%) Equity Derivative
9 2 (3.28%) Mobile Games
10 1 (1.64%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (1.64%) Animation
10 1 (1.64%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (1.64%) Digital TV
10 1 (1.64%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Linux
2 5 (8.20%) Unix
2 5 (8.20%) Windows
3 2 (3.28%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.64%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (70.49%) Mathematics
2 24 (39.34%) Computer Science
3 19 (31.15%) Statistics
4 16 (26.23%) Quantitative Finance
5 14 (22.95%) Analytics
6 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (18.03%) Analytical Modelling
8 10 (16.39%) Data Science
8 10 (16.39%) Validation
9 9 (14.75%) Data Analysis
9 9 (14.75%) Model Validation
10 8 (13.11%) Agile
11 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning
11 7 (11.48%) Product Strategy
12 6 (9.84%) Numerical Analysis
13 5 (8.20%) Design Patterns
13 5 (8.20%) Mathematical Modelling
13 5 (8.20%) Use Case
14 4 (6.56%) Battery Management
14 4 (6.56%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (60.66%) Python
2 23 (37.70%) C++
3 14 (22.95%) MATLAB
4 9 (14.75%) R
4 9 (14.75%) SQL
5 8 (13.11%) C#
5 8 (13.11%) Java
5 8 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (6.56%) C
7 4 (6.56%) Perl
7 4 (6.56%) VBA
8 3 (4.92%) Fortran
9 2 (3.28%) Bash
10 1 (1.64%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.64%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.64%) Scala
10 1 (1.64%) XAML
Qualifications
1 48 (78.69%) Degree
2 19 (31.15%) Numerate Degree
3 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
4 9 (14.75%) Master's Degree
5 7 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (11.48%) PhD
6 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.28%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.92%) Keysight
2 2 (3.28%) CA
2 2 (3.28%) MathWorks
3 1 (1.64%) Adobe
3 1 (1.64%) Databricks
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft