Life Science Contracts in London

Life Sciences
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science 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 361 445 549
Rank change year-on-year +84 +104 -62
Contract jobs citing Life Science 39 37 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 28
10th Percentile £428 £440 £430
25th Percentile £513 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -11.36% +1.38%
75th Percentile £942 £569 £638
90th Percentile £1,750 £648 £913
England median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £61.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - +43.68%
75th Percentile £38.75 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £51.88 £62.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% -17.00% +41.24%

All Generic Skills
London

Life Science falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,844 9,036 14,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.93% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 6,567 10,276
10th Percentile £315 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 104 201
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.28 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Life Science in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the London 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London +23 11 £550 +15.79% 13
Central London +43 4 £755 +221.28% 19
South London +9 1 £450 -7.69%
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 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.13%) SAP CCM
3 1 (2.56%) SAP APO
3 1 (2.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.56%) SAP IBP
3 1 (2.56%) SAP PLM
3 1 (2.56%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
2 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (10.26%) Serverless
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (5.13%) dbt
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.56%) Azure
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
4 1 (2.56%) Collibra
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) OCI
4 1 (2.56%) PaaS
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (7.69%) Tableau
2 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 2 (5.13%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) GitLab
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (2.56%) PyCharm
General
1 15 (38.46%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
4 4 (10.26%) Retail
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Finance
7 1 (2.56%) Automotive
7 1 (2.56%) Aviation
7 1 (2.56%) Environmental Health
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (12.82%) Project Manager
2 4 (10.26%) Architect
2 4 (10.26%) Consultant
3 3 (7.69%) Analyst
3 3 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Integration Manager
4 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.13%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (5.13%) Lead
4 2 (5.13%) SAP Manager
4 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) CSS
1 1 (2.56%) D3.js
1 1 (2.56%) HTML
1 1 (2.56%) Node.js
1 1 (2.56%) Nuxt
1 1 (2.56%) React
1 1 (2.56%) Svelte
1 1 (2.56%) SvelteKit
1 1 (2.56%) Vue
1 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) FMCG
3 1 (2.56%) Genomics
3 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) Podcast
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) DevOps
2 7 (17.95%) Biotechnology
3 6 (15.38%) Agile
4 5 (12.82%) Analytics
4 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.26%) Data Modelling
5 4 (10.26%) ERP
5 4 (10.26%) ETL
5 4 (10.26%) Project Management
5 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
6 3 (7.69%) Business Analysis
6 3 (7.69%) Change Management
6 3 (7.69%) Commercialisation
6 3 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (7.69%) Data Management
6 3 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (7.69%) Logistics
6 3 (7.69%) Migration
6 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) Go
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Groovy
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) GxP
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) COSHH
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) Good Clinical Practice
3 1 (2.56%) HL7
3 1 (2.56%) NEBOSH
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Ansible
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) SAP
2 5 (12.82%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) Ariba
4 2 (5.13%) Sitecore
4 2 (5.13%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.56%) Adobe
5 1 (2.56%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.56%) Confluent
5 1 (2.56%) Databricks
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Informatica
5 1 (2.56%) Talend