Life Science Jobs

Life Sciences
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 480 313
Rank change year-on-year -35 -167 +44
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 433 569 2,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.61% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 1.40% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 148 243 209
10th Percentile £28,675 £32,950 £41,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,200 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,750 £107,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +17.65%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 36,313 40,517 83,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 43.16% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 23,344 22,343 34,665
10th Percentile £28,179 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,500 £45,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England -50 398 £47,500 -18.10% 306
UK excluding London -117 241 £45,000 -18.18% 193
Work from Home +41 182 £47,500 -26.32% 105
London +96 179 £67,500 -3.57% 125
South East -14 91 £40,000 -27.27% 41
North of England -45 52 £40,000 -23.81% 51
East of England -12 35 £55,000 +15.79% 53
Midlands -45 27 £62,500 +13.64% 16
North West -20 25 £52,500 -12.50% 31
Yorkshire +17 23 £32,500 -23.53% 9
East Midlands -48 22 - - 9
Scotland -72 17 £60,000 +3.45% 18
South West -28 11 £45,000 -6.25% 11
Wales - 6 £65,766 - 6
West Midlands -32 5 £62,500 -3.06% 7
North East -23 4 £27,875 -75.76% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 4

Life Science
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.00%) Documentum
2 9 (2.08%) SAS
3 6 (1.39%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.39%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.46%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 44 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (7.16%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.46%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (3.70%) TrackWise
2 11 (2.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.92%) SAP BPC
3 4 (0.92%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.92%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.92%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.92%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.92%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.69%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 35 (8.08%) Azure
2 34 (7.85%) AWS
3 20 (4.62%) Snowflake
4 17 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.77%) GitHub
6 10 (2.31%) OCI
7 9 (2.08%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.08%) SaaS
8 8 (1.85%) IaaS
8 8 (1.85%) Serverless
9 6 (1.39%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.15%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.92%) Dagster
11 4 (0.92%) Figma
12 3 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.69%) PaaS
12 3 (0.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.54%) Firewall
2 6 (1.39%) LAN
2 6 (1.39%) WAN
3 3 (0.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.69%) VPN
3 3 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.69%) Wireless
4 2 (0.46%) DHCP
4 2 (0.46%) DNS
4 2 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.46%) SAN
4 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.23%) NAS
5 1 (0.23%) Network Security
5 1 (0.23%) VLAN
5 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.31%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.54%) Tableau
3 10 (2.31%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.08%) Power BI
5 6 (1.39%) Big Data
6 5 (1.15%) MS Access
6 5 (1.15%) MySQL
6 5 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.92%) Metadata
7 4 (0.92%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.69%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.69%) SQLite
9 2 (0.46%) Base SAS
9 2 (0.46%) EDMS
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (1.62%) Git
2 5 (1.15%) InstallShield
2 5 (1.15%) JIRA
3 4 (0.92%) Snakemake
4 2 (0.46%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.23%) JUnit
5 1 (0.23%) Maven
5 1 (0.23%) Mockito
5 1 (0.23%) Postman
5 1 (0.23%) Selenium
5 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.23%) TestNG
General
1 192 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 162 (37.41%) Pharmaceutical
3 104 (24.02%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (23.56%) Finance
5 67 (15.47%) Marketing
6 59 (13.63%) Law
7 52 (12.01%) Manufacturing
8 37 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (7.16%) Legal
9 31 (7.16%) Retail
10 26 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.00%) Billing
12 11 (2.54%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.85%) Humanities
13 8 (1.85%) Social Science
14 7 (1.62%) Military
15 6 (1.39%) Aerospace
16 5 (1.15%) French Language
16 5 (1.15%) Games
17 4 (0.92%) German Language
Job Titles
1 85 (19.63%) Analyst
2 80 (18.48%) Senior
3 31 (7.16%) Lead
4 26 (6.00%) Developer
4 26 (6.00%) Development Manager
5 23 (5.31%) Project Manager
6 22 (5.08%) QA Manager
7 20 (4.62%) Senior Manager
8 18 (4.16%) Research Analyst
9 16 (3.70%) Associate Director
9 16 (3.70%) Data Scientist
9 16 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
9 16 (3.70%) Software Engineer
10 15 (3.46%) Business Development Manager
10 15 (3.46%) Business Manager
10 15 (3.46%) Project Leader
10 15 (3.46%) Senior Project Leader
11 14 (3.23%) IT Manager
11 14 (3.23%) Systems Manager
12 13 (3.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.00%) CSS
1 26 (6.00%) HTML
2 9 (2.08%) .NET
3 7 (1.62%) React
3 7 (1.62%) XML
4 5 (1.15%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.92%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.92%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.92%) EDI
5 4 (0.92%) Entity Framework
5 4 (0.92%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.92%) Spring
6 2 (0.46%) D3.js
6 2 (0.46%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.23%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.23%) JAX-RS
7 1 (0.23%) Kafka
7 1 (0.23%) Mustache
7 1 (0.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.62%) Biopharmaceutical
2 20 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (4.39%) Algorithms
4 16 (3.70%) LIMS
4 16 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
7 8 (1.85%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.39%) NHS
9 6 (1.39%) Pharmacovigilance
10 4 (0.92%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.92%) Device Driver
10 4 (0.92%) Omics
10 4 (0.92%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.69%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.69%) Genomics
11 3 (0.69%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.78%) Windows
2 15 (3.46%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.00%) Linux
4 6 (1.39%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 3 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.23%) Android
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (20.09%) Biotechnology
3 75 (17.32%) Analytics
4 60 (13.86%) Data Science
5 58 (13.39%) Project Management
6 54 (12.47%) Computer Science
7 51 (11.78%) Business Development
8 46 (10.62%) Validation
9 39 (9.01%) Software Engineering
10 34 (7.85%) Data Analysis
11 33 (7.62%) Time Management
12 32 (7.39%) Data Management
12 32 (7.39%) Neuroscience
12 32 (7.39%) Project Delivery
13 31 (7.16%) Artificial Intelligence
13 31 (7.16%) Statistics
14 30 (6.93%) Mathematics
15 28 (6.47%) Chemistry
16 25 (5.77%) Informatics
17 24 (5.54%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.09%) SQL
2 27 (6.24%) JavaScript
3 22 (5.08%) Python
4 20 (4.62%) T-SQL
5 17 (3.93%) C#
6 13 (3.00%) Java
7 10 (2.31%) Bash
8 8 (1.85%) Ruby
9 5 (1.15%) C++
9 5 (1.15%) VB
10 4 (0.92%) Delphi
11 3 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.46%) PHP
12 2 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.46%) R
12 2 (0.46%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.23%) Go
13 1 (0.23%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 255 (58.89%) Degree
2 58 (13.39%) PhD
3 36 (8.31%) Master's Degree
4 28 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.54%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.31%) CFA
6 10 (2.31%) CIMA
6 10 (2.31%) MBA
7 7 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.69%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.69%) PMP
9 2 (0.46%) CISA
9 2 (0.46%) CISSP
10 1 (0.23%) MCSE
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.78%) Good Clinical Practice
1 51 (11.78%) QA
2 30 (6.93%) GLP
3 28 (6.47%) GMP
4 21 (4.85%) SLA
5 14 (3.23%) GxP
6 9 (2.08%) CDISC
7 8 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.39%) GDPR
8 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.15%) GAMP
10 4 (0.92%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.69%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.46%) Data Quality
12 2 (0.46%) GRC
12 2 (0.46%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.46%) ITGC
12 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 17 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.92%) Terraform
3 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.46%) Nessus
4 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.46%) Puppet
5 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.85%) Oracle
3 18 (4.16%) SAP
4 10 (2.31%) VMware
5 8 (1.85%) QAD
6 6 (1.39%) iManage
7 5 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.92%) F5
9 3 (0.69%) Cisco
10 2 (0.46%) Adobe
10 2 (0.46%) Apple
10 2 (0.46%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.46%) Charles River
10 2 (0.46%) IONA
11 1 (0.23%) Databricks
11 1 (0.23%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.23%) Google
11 1 (0.23%) HP
11 1 (0.23%) Meraki
11 1 (0.23%) Palo Alto