Biomedicine Contracts

Biomedicine (Biomedical)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Biomedicine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biomedicine 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 577 690 821
Rank change year-on-year +113 +131 -94
Contract jobs citing Biomedicine 7 7 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.013% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.014% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 19
10th Percentile - £236 £480
25th Percentile £425 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £250 £550
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -54.55% +112.56%
75th Percentile £567 £353 £711
90th Percentile £687 £394 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate - £250 £708
% change year-on-year - -64.66% +173.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biomedicine falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Biomedicine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biomedicine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biomedicine.

Daily rate trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biomedicine over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biomedicine.

Hourly rate trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biomedicine within the UK 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
Work from Home +119 5 £450 +100.00% 8
England +82 3 £628 +151.00% 77
London +82 1 £755 +88.75% 20
UK excluding London +25 1 - - 66
North of England - 1 - - 18
North West - 1 - - 13

Biomedicine
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) D3.js
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) Nuxt
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) Svelte
1 1 (14.29%) SvelteKit
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Genomics
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Omics
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow Management
2 1 (14.29%) API Design
2 1 (14.29%) Biotechnology
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
2 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) OWASP
2 1 (14.29%) Proteomics
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) UX Design
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft