Life Science Jobs in London

Life Sciences
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 443 340
Rank change year-on-year +112 -103 +135
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 179 176 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.55% 1.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 1.20% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 40 94 107
10th Percentile - £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -15.63%
75th Percentile £88,125 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,000 £92,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £58,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -18.10% +3.57% +1.82%

All Generic Skills
London

Life Science is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,684 14,702 37,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.08% 46.07% 51.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6,777 10,150 15,465
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Life Science in London

Life Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +117 74 £54,000 -10.00% 15
West London - 10 £75,000 - 12
Life Science
England

Life Science
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 2 (1.12%) SAS
1 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.12%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.56%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.23%) SAP BPC
2 4 (2.23%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.23%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.23%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.56%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.17%) Snowflake
2 9 (5.03%) AWS
3 6 (3.35%) OCI
4 5 (2.79%) Azure
4 5 (2.79%) SaaS
5 4 (2.23%) Dagster
5 4 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.68%) Serverless
7 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.56%) GCP
8 1 (0.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.12%) Firewall
2 2 (1.12%) LAN
2 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.12%) WAN
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) SAN
3 1 (0.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.41%) SQL Server
2 21 (11.73%) Tableau
3 5 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.23%) MySQL
4 4 (2.23%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.68%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.68%) SQLite
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.56%) Metadata
7 1 (0.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Snakemake
2 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.56%) JUnit
3 1 (0.56%) Maven
3 1 (0.56%) Mockito
3 1 (0.56%) Postman
3 1 (0.56%) Selenium
3 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.56%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.56%) TestNG
General
1 86 (48.04%) Social Skills
2 76 (42.46%) Pharmaceutical
3 69 (38.55%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (36.31%) Finance
5 50 (27.93%) Marketing
6 27 (15.08%) Law
7 24 (13.41%) Retail
8 23 (12.85%) Legal
9 19 (10.61%) Manufacturing
10 12 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (5.03%) Billing
12 8 (4.47%) Humanities
12 8 (4.47%) Social Science
13 5 (2.79%) French Language
14 4 (2.23%) Danish Language
14 4 (2.23%) German Language
14 4 (2.23%) Russian Language
14 4 (2.23%) Spanish Language
14 4 (2.23%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.68%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 47 (26.26%) Senior
2 41 (22.91%) Analyst
3 13 (7.26%) Consultant
4 11 (6.15%) Development Manager
4 11 (6.15%) Financial Analyst
5 9 (5.03%) Head of QA
5 9 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (5.03%) QA Manager
5 9 (5.03%) Senior Manager
6 8 (4.47%) Research Manager
7 7 (3.91%) Associate Director
7 7 (3.91%) Data Scientist
7 7 (3.91%) Senior Data Scientist
8 5 (2.79%) Oracle Consultant
8 5 (2.79%) Project Analyst
8 5 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (2.79%) Senior Financial Analyst
9 4 (2.23%) SAP CO Consultant
9 4 (2.23%) SAP FI Consultant
9 4 (2.23%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.17%) CSS
1 20 (11.17%) HTML
2 4 (2.23%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.56%) FHIR
3 1 (0.56%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.56%) Guice
3 1 (0.56%) JAX-RS
3 1 (0.56%) Kafka
3 1 (0.56%) Mustache
3 1 (0.56%) OpenAPI
3 1 (0.56%) REST
3 1 (0.56%) RESTful
3 1 (0.56%) SAML
3 1 (0.56%) Spring
3 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.56%) Swagger
3 1 (0.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.82%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.35%) Biopharmaceutical
3 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.35%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.23%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.23%) Omics
4 4 (2.23%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.68%) Learning Management System
5 3 (1.68%) LIMS
5 3 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.12%) NHS
6 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.91%) Windows
2 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.56%) Unix
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.82%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (24.02%) Analytics
3 38 (21.23%) Biotechnology
4 28 (15.64%) Computer Science
5 27 (15.08%) Business Development
6 26 (14.53%) Data Science
7 25 (13.97%) Data Management
7 25 (13.97%) Neuroscience
8 23 (12.85%) Statistics
9 21 (11.73%) Informatics
9 21 (11.73%) Machine Learning
9 21 (11.73%) Process Improvement
10 20 (11.17%) Artificial Intelligence
11 18 (10.06%) Data Modelling
11 18 (10.06%) Time Management
12 17 (9.50%) Market Surveillance
12 17 (9.50%) Quality Management
12 17 (9.50%) Software Engineering
12 17 (9.50%) Visualisation
13 16 (8.94%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.97%) SQL
2 20 (11.17%) JavaScript
2 20 (11.17%) T-SQL
3 7 (3.91%) Python
4 4 (2.23%) Bash
5 3 (1.68%) Java
5 3 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.12%) SAS Macro
7 1 (0.56%) Go
7 1 (0.56%) Scala
7 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 126 (70.39%) Degree
2 38 (21.23%) PhD
3 21 (11.73%) Master's Degree
4 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.35%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) MCSE
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.17%) SLA
2 18 (10.06%) QA
3 9 (5.03%) GLP
3 9 (5.03%) Good Clinical Practice
4 8 (4.47%) GMP
5 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.12%) CDISC
7 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (1.68%) Terraform
2 2 (1.12%) Ansible
2 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Kustomize
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.56%) Packer
Vendors
1 23 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.15%) Oracle
3 9 (5.03%) SAP
4 8 (4.47%) QAD
5 3 (1.68%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.12%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.12%) VMware
7 1 (0.56%) Cisco
7 1 (0.56%) Citrix
7 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.56%) Google
7 1 (0.56%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.56%) HP
7 1 (0.56%) Juniper
7 1 (0.56%) Meraki
7 1 (0.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.56%) Red Hat