Life Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Life Sciences
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 538 447 263
Rank change year-on-year -91 -184 +49
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 238 315 1,004
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.56% 1.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.34% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 98 119 78
10th Percentile £27,824 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,563 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,378 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,375 £95,750 £82,375
UK median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +7.14% +6.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,608 23,533 32,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.39% 41.62% 44.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,358 10,839 15,967
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,227 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK 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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East -19 88 £40,000 -27.27% 58
North of England -29 52 £40,000 -21.95% 49
East of England +1 35 £55,000 +15.79% 62
Midlands -32 27 £62,500 +13.64% 14
North West -11 25 £52,500 -12.50% 29
Yorkshire +14 23 £32,500 -23.53% 8
East Midlands -28 22 - - 7
Scotland -61 17 £60,000 -4.00% 15
South West -22 11 £45,000 -3.23% 10
Wales - 6 £65,766 - 6
West Midlands -23 5 £62,500 -3.06% 7
North East -16 4 £27,875 -75.76% 13
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 4
Life Science
UK

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 13 (5.46%) Documentum
2 7 (2.94%) SAS
3 6 (2.52%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (13.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (10.08%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.84%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.84%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (6.72%) TrackWise
2 4 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.84%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.84%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.84%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 27 (11.34%) Azure
2 25 (10.50%) AWS
3 11 (4.62%) GitHub
3 11 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (3.36%) IaaS
4 8 (3.36%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.10%) PowerApps
5 5 (2.10%) Serverless
6 4 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.68%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.68%) Figma
6 4 (1.68%) SaaS
7 3 (1.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.26%) OCI
7 3 (1.26%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.36%) Firewall
2 4 (1.68%) LAN
2 4 (1.68%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.68%) WAN
3 3 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.26%) Wireless
4 2 (0.84%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) NAS
5 1 (0.42%) SAN
5 1 (0.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.36%) Power BI
3 7 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.10%) Big Data
4 5 (2.10%) MS Access
5 3 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.26%) Metadata
5 3 (1.26%) Tableau
6 2 (0.84%) EDMS
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.94%) Git
2 5 (2.10%) InstallShield
2 5 (2.10%) JIRA
3 2 (0.84%) Axure RP
General
1 101 (42.44%) Social Skills
2 81 (34.03%) Pharmaceutical
3 37 (15.55%) Finance
4 35 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (13.45%) Manufacturing
6 30 (12.61%) Law
7 25 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (10.08%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (6.72%) Marketing
10 8 (3.36%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.94%) Military
11 7 (2.94%) Retail
12 6 (2.52%) Legal
13 5 (2.10%) Games
14 4 (1.68%) Billing
15 2 (0.84%) Advertising
15 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.84%) Multimedia
16 1 (0.42%) Publishing
16 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (17.65%) Analyst
2 33 (13.87%) Senior
3 28 (11.76%) Lead
4 22 (9.24%) Developer
5 19 (7.98%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.56%) Research Analyst
7 16 (6.72%) Software Engineer
8 15 (6.30%) Development Manager
8 15 (6.30%) Project Leader
8 15 (6.30%) Senior Project Leader
9 14 (5.88%) IT Manager
9 14 (5.88%) Systems Manager
10 13 (5.46%) Data Integrity Manager
10 13 (5.46%) QA Manager
11 12 (5.04%) Business Development Manager
11 12 (5.04%) Business Manager
11 12 (5.04%) IT Analyst
12 11 (4.62%) Senior Manager
13 10 (4.20%) IT Support
14 9 (3.78%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.78%) .NET
2 7 (2.94%) React
2 7 (2.94%) XML
3 6 (2.52%) CSS
3 6 (2.52%) HTML
4 5 (2.10%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (1.68%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.68%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.68%) EDI
5 4 (1.68%) Entity Framework
6 3 (1.26%) Spring
7 2 (0.84%) D3.js
8 1 (0.42%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.34%) Biopharmaceutical
2 13 (5.46%) LIMS
3 11 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.52%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.10%) Pharmacovigilance
7 4 (1.68%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.68%) Device Driver
7 4 (1.68%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.68%) NHS
7 4 (1.68%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.26%) Genomics
8 3 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.84%) Graphic Design
9 2 (0.84%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.18%) Windows
2 12 (5.04%) Linux
3 9 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.10%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.84%) Unix
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.42%) Android
7 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (26.05%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (20.59%) Biotechnology
3 45 (18.91%) Project Management
4 42 (17.65%) Validation
5 34 (14.29%) Data Science
6 32 (13.45%) Analytics
6 32 (13.45%) Data Analysis
7 26 (10.92%) Computer Science
8 24 (10.08%) Project Delivery
9 23 (9.66%) Business Development
10 22 (9.24%) QMS
10 22 (9.24%) Software Engineering
10 22 (9.24%) Workflow
11 21 (8.82%) Agile
11 21 (8.82%) Risk Management
12 20 (8.40%) Chemistry
12 20 (8.40%) Mathematics
13 19 (7.98%) OO
14 18 (7.56%) Acceptance Criteria
14 18 (7.56%) Biometrics
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.66%) SQL
2 17 (7.14%) C#
3 15 (6.30%) Python
4 10 (4.20%) Java
5 8 (3.36%) Ruby
6 7 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.52%) Bash
8 5 (2.10%) C++
8 5 (2.10%) VB
9 4 (1.68%) Delphi
10 2 (0.84%) PHP
10 2 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 125 (52.52%) Degree
2 19 (7.98%) PhD
3 17 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.20%) CFA
5 10 (4.20%) CIMA
5 10 (4.20%) MBA
6 7 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
7 5 (2.10%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.26%) CISA
8 3 (1.26%) CISSP
8 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.26%) PMP
9 1 (0.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (16.39%) Good Clinical Practice
2 33 (13.87%) QA
3 21 (8.82%) GLP
4 20 (8.40%) GMP
5 13 (5.46%) GxP
6 8 (3.36%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.94%) CDISC
8 5 (2.10%) GAMP
8 5 (2.10%) GDPR
9 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.26%) ISO 9001
9 3 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.84%) GRC
10 2 (0.84%) ITGC
10 2 (0.84%) SLA
10 2 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.42%) HITRUST
11 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.94%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.84%) Nessus
2 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
2 2 (0.84%) Puppet
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.78%) Oracle
3 8 (3.36%) SAP
4 6 (2.52%) iManage
4 6 (2.52%) VMware
5 4 (1.68%) F5
6 2 (0.84%) Adobe
6 2 (0.84%) Apple
6 2 (0.84%) Charles River
6 2 (0.84%) IONA
6 2 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.42%) Databricks