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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 485 315
Rank change year-on-year -39 -170 +45
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 428 558 2,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.59% 1.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.19% 1.36% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 145 245 205
10th Percentile £28,600 £33,150 £41,315
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £78,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £114,900 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +18.40%

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 35,876 40,905 81,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.09% 43.15% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,224 22,549 34,301
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,116 £46,350 £45,500
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 2 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 2 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 -3 396 £47,500 -18.10% 345
UK excluding London -101 239 £45,000 -18.18% 211
Work from Home +49 181 £48,536 -24.72% 108
London +106 179 £67,500 -3.57% 147
South East -23 89 £40,000 -27.27% 60
North of England -32 52 £40,000 -23.81% 48
East of England -3 35 £55,000 +15.79% 65
Midlands -34 27 £62,500 +13.64% 14
North West -20 25 £52,500 -12.50% 28
Yorkshire +8 23 £32,500 -23.53% 8
East Midlands -29 22 - - 7
Scotland -65 17 £60,000 +3.45% 16
South West -24 11 £45,000 -3.23% 10
Wales - 6 £65,766 - 7
West Midlands -19 5 £62,500 -3.06% 7
North East -17 4 £27,875 -75.76% 13
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 (3.04%) Documentum
2 9 (2.10%) SAS
3 6 (1.40%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.47%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.23%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) IIS
6 1 (0.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (3.74%) TrackWise
2 11 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.93%) SAP BPC
3 4 (0.93%) SAP CO
3 4 (0.93%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.93%) SAP FI
3 4 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (0.93%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.93%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.70%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 35 (8.18%) Azure
2 34 (7.94%) AWS
3 20 (4.67%) Snowflake
4 17 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (2.80%) GitHub
6 9 (2.10%) OCI
6 9 (2.10%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.10%) SaaS
7 8 (1.87%) IaaS
7 8 (1.87%) Serverless
8 6 (1.40%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.17%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (0.93%) Dagster
10 4 (0.93%) Figma
11 3 (0.70%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.70%) PaaS
11 3 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.80%) Firewall
2 6 (1.40%) LAN
2 6 (1.40%) WAN
3 4 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.93%) VPN
4 3 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.70%) Wireless
5 2 (0.47%) DHCP
5 2 (0.47%) DNS
5 2 (0.47%) SAN
5 2 (0.47%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.23%) NAS
6 1 (0.23%) Network Security
6 1 (0.23%) VLAN
6 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.61%) Tableau
3 10 (2.34%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.10%) Power BI
5 6 (1.40%) Big Data
6 5 (1.17%) MS Access
6 5 (1.17%) MySQL
6 5 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.93%) Metadata
7 4 (0.93%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.70%) RDBMS
8 3 (0.70%) SQLite
9 2 (0.47%) Base SAS
9 2 (0.47%) EDMS
10 1 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.23%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (1.64%) Git
2 5 (1.17%) InstallShield
2 5 (1.17%) JIRA
3 4 (0.93%) Snakemake
4 2 (0.47%) Axure RP
4 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.47%) 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
1 190 (44.39%) Social Skills
2 162 (37.85%) Pharmaceutical
3 104 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (23.83%) Finance
5 67 (15.65%) Marketing
6 58 (13.55%) Law
7 53 (12.38%) Manufacturing
8 37 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (7.24%) Legal
9 31 (7.24%) Retail
10 26 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (3.04%) Billing
12 11 (2.57%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.87%) Humanities
13 8 (1.87%) Social Science
14 7 (1.64%) Military
15 5 (1.17%) French Language
15 5 (1.17%) Games
15 5 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.93%) German Language
Job Titles
1 84 (19.63%) Analyst
2 80 (18.69%) Senior
3 30 (7.01%) Lead
4 26 (6.07%) Developer
4 26 (6.07%) Development Manager
5 22 (5.14%) QA Manager
6 21 (4.91%) Project Manager
7 20 (4.67%) Senior Manager
8 18 (4.21%) Research Analyst
9 16 (3.74%) Associate Director
9 16 (3.74%) Data Scientist
9 16 (3.74%) Senior Data Scientist
9 16 (3.74%) Software Engineer
10 15 (3.50%) Business Development Manager
10 15 (3.50%) Business Manager
10 15 (3.50%) Project Leader
10 15 (3.50%) Senior Project Leader
11 14 (3.27%) IT Manager
11 14 (3.27%) Systems Manager
12 13 (3.04%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.07%) CSS
1 26 (6.07%) HTML
2 9 (2.10%) .NET
3 7 (1.64%) React
3 7 (1.64%) XML
4 5 (1.17%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.93%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.93%) .NET Framework
5 4 (0.93%) EDI
5 4 (0.93%) Entity Framework
5 4 (0.93%) PyTorch
5 4 (0.93%) Spring
6 2 (0.47%) D3.js
6 2 (0.47%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.23%) Guice
7 1 (0.23%) JAX-RS
7 1 (0.23%) Kafka
7 1 (0.23%) Mustache
7 1 (0.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.71%) Biopharmaceutical
2 20 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 17 (3.97%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.74%) LIMS
6 10 (2.34%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.34%) Renewable Energy
7 9 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.87%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.40%) NHS
10 6 (1.40%) Pharmacovigilance
11 4 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 4 (0.93%) Device Driver
11 4 (0.93%) Omics
11 4 (0.93%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.70%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.70%) Genomics
12 3 (0.70%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 38 (8.88%) Windows
2 15 (3.50%) Windows Server
3 13 (3.04%) Linux
4 6 (1.40%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.70%) Unix
5 3 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.47%) 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 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (20.33%) Biotechnology
3 75 (17.52%) Analytics
4 60 (14.02%) Data Science
5 57 (13.32%) Project Management
6 54 (12.62%) Computer Science
7 50 (11.68%) Business Development
8 46 (10.75%) Validation
9 39 (9.11%) Software Engineering
10 34 (7.94%) Data Analysis
11 33 (7.71%) Time Management
12 32 (7.48%) Data Management
12 32 (7.48%) Neuroscience
12 32 (7.48%) Project Delivery
13 31 (7.24%) Artificial Intelligence
13 31 (7.24%) Statistics
14 30 (7.01%) Mathematics
15 28 (6.54%) Chemistry
16 25 (5.84%) Informatics
17 24 (5.61%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 48 (11.21%) SQL
2 27 (6.31%) JavaScript
3 22 (5.14%) Python
4 20 (4.67%) T-SQL
5 17 (3.97%) C#
6 13 (3.04%) Java
7 10 (2.34%) Bash
8 8 (1.87%) Ruby
9 5 (1.17%) C++
9 5 (1.17%) VB
10 4 (0.93%) Delphi
11 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.47%) PHP
12 2 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.47%) R
12 2 (0.47%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.23%) Go
13 1 (0.23%) Scala
13 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 253 (59.11%) Degree
2 58 (13.55%) PhD
3 36 (8.41%) Master's Degree
4 28 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.57%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.34%) CFA
6 10 (2.34%) CIMA
6 10 (2.34%) MBA
7 7 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.70%) CISA
8 3 (0.70%) CISSP
8 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.70%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) MCSE
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.92%) QA
2 49 (11.45%) Good Clinical Practice
3 30 (7.01%) GLP
4 28 (6.54%) GMP
5 22 (5.14%) SLA
6 14 (3.27%) GxP
7 9 (2.10%) CDISC
8 8 (1.87%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (1.40%) GDPR
11 5 (1.17%) GAMP
12 4 (0.93%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.93%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
14 2 (0.47%) GRC
14 2 (0.47%) ITGC
14 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.87%) Hyper-V
3 7 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.93%) Terraform
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Nessus
4 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.47%) Puppet
5 1 (0.23%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 20 (4.67%) Oracle
3 18 (4.21%) SAP
4 10 (2.34%) VMware
5 8 (1.87%) QAD
6 6 (1.40%) iManage
7 5 (1.17%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.93%) F5
9 3 (0.70%) Cisco
10 2 (0.47%) Adobe
10 2 (0.47%) Apple
10 2 (0.47%) Blue Prism
10 2 (0.47%) Charles River
10 2 (0.47%) 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