Life Science Jobs in Central London

Life Sciences
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 115 230 262
Rank change year-on-year +115 +32 -11
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 80 6 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.10% 0.12% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.92% 0.30% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - - £51,550
25th Percentile £51,000 £42,750 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £68,500 £86,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -15.63%

All Generic Skills
Central 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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,351 2,023 3,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 35.48% 40.98% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 956 1,662 2,835
10th Percentile £40,523 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £103,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in Central London

Life Science
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Life Science in Central London

Life Science
Salary Histogram in Central London

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

Salary histogram for Life Science in Central London

Life Science
Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +48 13 £54,000 -10.00% 16
City of Westminster - 1 £80,000 -
Life Science
London

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (1.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) Snowflake
2 5 (6.25%) AWS
2 5 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.25%) GitHub
3 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.75%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.00%) Tableau
3 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.75%) MySQL
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.75%) SQLite
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.25%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (58.75%) Social Skills
3 44 (55.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 40 (50.00%) Finance
5 27 (33.75%) Marketing
6 18 (22.50%) Legal
6 18 (22.50%) Retail
7 4 (5.00%) Danish Language
7 4 (5.00%) French Language
7 4 (5.00%) German Language
7 4 (5.00%) Russian Language
7 4 (5.00%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 45 (56.25%) Analyst
2 23 (28.75%) Senior
3 10 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 10 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
3 10 (12.50%) Senior Data Scientist
4 5 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (6.25%) Senior Financial Analyst
5 4 (5.00%) Project Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Consultant
6 3 (3.75%) Implementation Consultant
7 2 (2.50%) Business Development Manager
7 2 (2.50%) Business Manager
7 2 (2.50%) Development Manager
7 2 (2.50%) Product Manager
7 2 (2.50%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.50%) Senior Product Manager
7 2 (2.50%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (2.50%) Technical Implementation Consultant
8 1 (1.25%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (1.25%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) CSS
1 8 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (1.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.25%) Biopharmaceutical
4 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
5 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.75%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.75%) LIMS
6 2 (2.50%) NHS
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.25%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Windows
1 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (52.50%) Analytics
2 41 (51.25%) Biotechnology
3 28 (35.00%) Informatics
4 26 (32.50%) Computer Science
5 24 (30.00%) Analytical Thinking
5 24 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 24 (30.00%) Data Science
5 24 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
5 24 (30.00%) Process Improvement
5 24 (30.00%) Statistics
5 24 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 23 (28.75%) Business Analytics
6 23 (28.75%) Software Engineering
7 18 (22.50%) Time Management
8 17 (21.25%) Artificial Intelligence
8 17 (21.25%) Market Surveillance
8 17 (21.25%) Neuroscience
9 16 (20.00%) Data Management
9 16 (20.00%) Quantitative Analysis
10 15 (18.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.00%) SQL
2 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.50%) Python
5 1 (1.25%) Go
5 1 (1.25%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (93.75%) Degree
2 32 (40.00%) PhD
3 24 (30.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) Salesforce