Life Science Contracts in West London

Life Sciences
London > West London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in West 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 37 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Life Science 11 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.96% 1.52% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.33% 3.86% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £520 - £643
25th Percentile - £463 £838
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £875
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -45.71% +153.62%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £913
90th Percentile £623 - -
London median daily rate £575 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +17.95% -11.36% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
London median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% - +43.68%

All Generic Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 132 233 231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 35.58% 39.42% 38.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 187 159
10th Percentile £215 £304 £202
25th Percentile £270 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £560 £515
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +8.74% -2.23%
75th Percentile £555 £644 £600
90th Percentile £636 £723 £675
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 21
10th Percentile £16.25 £27.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £33.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.98 £62.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.83% +228.95% -70.02%
75th Percentile £34.25 £82.50 £41.52
90th Percentile £55.05 £90.00 £42.02
London median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
% change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in West London

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Life Science in West London

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in West London

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Hillingdon +34 9 £550 +15.79% 5
Hounslow - 1 - -
Life Science
London

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.09%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
2 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Tableau
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.09%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Business Systems Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Digital Designer
2 1 (9.09%) Functional Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Instructional Designer
2 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
2 1 (9.09%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Functional Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
2 1 (9.09%) SAP PLM Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Sourcing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Podcast
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Analytics
1 5 (45.45%) Biotechnology
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Commercialisation
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Experience
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Logistics
5 1 (9.09%) PLM
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GxP
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Salesforce
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe
3 1 (9.09%) Ariba
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (9.09%) Confluent
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) Sitecore
3 1 (9.09%) Talend