PhD Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for PhD qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 446 439 420
Rank change year-on-year -7 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing PhD 474 560 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.68% 0.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% 2.02% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 306 229 403
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,404 £40,853
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £102,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £136,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +12.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

PhD falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,654 27,711 39,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.84% 33.76% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15,775 12,833 16,968
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

PhD
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for PhD in England

PhD
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing PhD in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for PhD in England

PhD
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PhD within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
South East -22 174 £58,000 -3.33% 62
London +94 170 £90,000 +9.09% 180
East of England -65 59 £72,500 -3.33% 56
North of England +5 36 £80,000 +14.45% 29
North West -6 22 £80,000 +14.45% 23
South West -65 17 £77,500 +43.19% 34
Midlands -31 15 £55,000 +22.22% 25
West Midlands -3 12 £55,000 - 14
Yorkshire +38 9 £37,500 - 4
North East - 5 £55,000 - 2
East Midlands -30 3 £32,500 -27.78% 11
PhD
UK

PhD
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 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.63%) Apache
4 2 (0.42%) SAS
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
5 1 (0.21%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.05%) Simulink
2 5 (1.05%) Stateflow
3 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Blender
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.84%) Ripple
2 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 27 (5.70%) AWS
2 21 (4.43%) Azure
3 14 (2.95%) GCP
3 14 (2.95%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.05%) GitHub
5 4 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (0.84%) Dagster
5 4 (0.84%) Google Gemini
5 4 (0.84%) SaaS
6 2 (0.42%) Amazon S3
6 2 (0.42%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (0.42%) OCI
6 2 (0.42%) Serverless
6 2 (0.42%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.42%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.21%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.27%) Internet
2 3 (0.63%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (0.63%) Wireless
3 2 (0.42%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (2.95%) Power BI
2 12 (2.53%) Big Data
3 11 (2.32%) Tableau
4 9 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.48%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (0.84%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.42%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.42%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.42%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.42%) Text Mining
11 1 (0.21%) Bigtable
11 1 (0.21%) Redis
11 1 (0.21%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 29 (6.12%) Git
2 6 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.27%) JUnit
3 5 (1.05%) GitLab
3 5 (1.05%) JIRA
3 5 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (0.84%) IntelliJ
4 4 (0.84%) Mockito
4 4 (0.84%) Snakemake
5 3 (0.63%) CMake
5 3 (0.63%) TestRail
6 2 (0.42%) GDB
6 2 (0.42%) MLflow
6 2 (0.42%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.42%) TensorBoard
7 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 148 (31.22%) Social Skills
2 104 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (14.56%) Finance
4 60 (12.66%) Pharmaceutical
5 27 (5.70%) Law
6 26 (5.49%) Electronics
7 23 (4.85%) Marketing
8 19 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.16%) Legal
10 11 (2.32%) Health Technology
11 8 (1.69%) Humanities
11 8 (1.69%) Retail
11 8 (1.69%) Social Science
12 7 (1.48%) Banking
13 6 (1.27%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.27%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.05%) Front Office
14 5 (1.05%) Games
Job Titles
1 110 (23.21%) Senior
2 79 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 73 (15.40%) Data Scientist
4 62 (13.08%) Developer
5 52 (10.97%) Senior Data Scientist
6 40 (8.44%) Analyst
7 37 (7.81%) Graduate
8 21 (4.43%) Lead
9 20 (4.22%) Software Developer
10 17 (3.59%) Development Manager
10 17 (3.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (3.38%) Quantitative Developer
12 15 (3.16%) Senior Developer
13 13 (2.74%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 13 (2.74%) Lead Data Scientist
14 12 (2.53%) Junior
14 12 (2.53%) Physicist
14 12 (2.53%) Qualitative Analyst
14 12 (2.53%) Quantitative Analyst
15 11 (2.32%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (9.28%) PyTorch
2 38 (8.02%) TensorFlow
3 19 (4.01%) OpenMP
4 15 (3.16%) .NET
5 13 (2.74%) scikit-learn
6 12 (2.53%) NumPy
7 11 (2.32%) OpenACC
8 9 (1.90%) Kafka
9 7 (1.48%) OpenCL
9 7 (1.48%) Pandas
10 6 (1.27%) REST
10 6 (1.27%) Vulkan
11 5 (1.05%) HTML
11 5 (1.05%) HTML5
11 5 (1.05%) QML
11 5 (1.05%) Qt
12 4 (0.84%) Keras
12 4 (0.84%) OpenGL
12 4 (0.84%) PySpark
12 4 (0.84%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 193 (40.72%) Algorithms
2 63 (13.29%) Life Science
3 31 (6.54%) CUDA
4 29 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 26 (5.49%) FPGA
6 25 (5.27%) Data Structures
7 22 (4.64%) VHDL
8 18 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (3.38%) Client/Server
10 15 (3.16%) Analogue Electronics
11 14 (2.95%) Embedded Systems
12 11 (2.32%) Biopharmaceutical
12 11 (2.32%) Hedge funds
13 10 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.90%) Blockchain
14 9 (1.90%) Taxonomies
15 6 (1.27%) Robotics
16 5 (1.05%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 70 (14.77%) Linux
2 41 (8.65%) Unix
3 2 (0.42%) Android
3 2 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (49.79%) Computer Science
2 212 (44.73%) Mathematics
3 153 (32.28%) Physics
4 146 (30.80%) Machine Learning
5 140 (29.54%) Data Science
6 133 (28.06%) Software Engineering
7 122 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
8 95 (20.04%) Artificial Intelligence
8 95 (20.04%) Statistics
9 68 (14.35%) Analytics
10 56 (11.81%) Decision-Making
11 52 (10.97%) Agile
12 50 (10.55%) Biotechnology
12 50 (10.55%) Parallel Programming
13 45 (9.49%) Visualisation
14 43 (9.07%) Data Visualisation
15 40 (8.44%) Open Source
16 37 (7.81%) Deep Learning
17 35 (7.38%) Software Testing
18 34 (7.17%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 260 (54.85%) Python
2 104 (21.94%) C++
3 101 (21.31%) C
4 76 (16.03%) Java
5 73 (15.40%) SQL
6 65 (13.71%) Fortran
7 54 (11.39%) C#
7 54 (11.39%) R
8 32 (6.75%) Bash
9 29 (6.12%) MATLAB
10 19 (4.01%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.27%) Perl
12 4 (0.84%) AWK
12 4 (0.84%) sed
12 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.84%) VB
13 3 (0.63%) C-shell
13 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.63%) Rust
14 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 462 (97.47%) Degree
2 310 (65.40%) Master's Degree
3 69 (14.56%) Security Cleared
4 48 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (5.49%) SC Cleared
6 18 (3.80%) MBA
7 17 (3.59%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.90%) CFA
8 9 (1.90%) CIMA
9 6 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
10 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.42%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.42%) OSCE
11 2 (0.42%) OSCP
12 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.21%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.32%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.11%) QA
3 9 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 9 (1.90%) GDPR
4 2 (0.42%) ECSS
4 2 (0.42%) GLP
4 2 (0.42%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.21%) DO-254
System Software
1 19 (4.01%) Docker
2 3 (0.63%) Firmware
3 2 (0.42%) IAG
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.69%) Terraform
3 7 (1.48%) Kubeflow
4 4 (0.84%) Ansible
4 4 (0.84%) Argo
5 2 (0.42%) Core Impact
Vendors
1 37 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.90%) OpenAI
3 6 (1.27%) Google
3 6 (1.27%) NVIDIA
4 4 (0.84%) ANSYS
4 4 (0.84%) Databricks
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle
5 2 (0.42%) SAP
6 1 (0.21%) Actel
6 1 (0.21%) Altera
6 1 (0.21%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.21%) Intel
6 1 (0.21%) Interwoven
6 1 (0.21%) Mentor Graphics
6 1 (0.21%) Microsemi
6 1 (0.21%) Qubit
6 1 (0.21%) Samsung
6 1 (0.21%) Xilinx
6 1 (0.21%) YouTube