Life Science Contracts in England

Life Sciences
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 546 642
Rank change year-on-year +159 +96 -152
Contract jobs citing Life Science 149 114 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.40% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.30% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 44 66
10th Percentile £377 £322 £375
25th Percentile £475 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -1.25% +7.53%
75th Percentile £560 £580 £588
90th Percentile £634 £681 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 7 6
10th Percentile £21.70 £31.58 £37.75
25th Percentile £32.50 £49.69 £46.31
Median hourly rate £41.50 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.60% +2.04% +39.20%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.38 £73.44
90th Percentile £61.80 £65.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -32.00% +2.04% +37.64%

All Generic Skills
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,504 17,122 24,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.90% 33.69% 33.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,522 11,890 17,184
10th Percentile £263 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 614 646
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £13.89
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -15.09% +1.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £22.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +25.56% -16.67% +3.85%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Life Science in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Life Science in England

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Life Science in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Life Science in England

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
North of England +80 48 £525 +10.53% 46
North West +59 48 £525 +10.53% 22
East of England +50 45 £525 +13.51% 45
London +103 36 £550 +12.82% 120
South East -15 24 £425 -17.48% 66
South West - 5 - - 8
Midlands +39 2 - - 16
West Midlands +33 2 - - 13
Life Science
UK

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.01%) CMS
2 2 (1.34%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.67%) Apache
3 1 (0.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) Drupal
3 1 (0.67%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (12.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (10.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.68%) Revit
5 1 (0.67%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.67%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.67%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 50 (33.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.36%) SAP GTS
3 4 (2.68%) TrackWise
4 3 (2.01%) SAP BPC
5 2 (1.34%) SAP CCM
5 2 (1.34%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.67%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.67%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.67%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.67%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.67%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.67%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.67%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.67%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.05%) Power Platform
2 7 (4.70%) Smartsheet
3 6 (4.03%) AWS
4 5 (3.36%) SaaS
5 4 (2.68%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (2.68%) Serverless
5 4 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (2.68%) Veeva
6 3 (2.01%) GitHub
6 3 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.34%) GCP
7 2 (1.34%) OCI
8 1 (0.67%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.67%) Collibra
8 1 (0.67%) dbt
8 1 (0.67%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.67%) Squarespace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Broadband
1 1 (0.67%) Firewall
1 1 (0.67%) LAN
1 1 (0.67%) Network Security
1 1 (0.67%) VPN
1 1 (0.67%) WAN
1 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.05%) Power BI
2 5 (3.36%) EDMS
2 5 (3.36%) Metadata
3 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.01%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.01%) SAP HANA
4 3 (2.01%) Tableau
5 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.34%) MySQL
5 2 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.34%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.67%) Big Data
6 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (5.37%) JIRA
2 4 (2.68%) Git
3 2 (1.34%) GitLab
3 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.67%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.67%) PyCharm
General
1 70 (46.98%) Social Skills
2 68 (45.64%) Pharmaceutical
3 28 (18.79%) Manufacturing
4 14 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.40%) Finance
5 7 (4.70%) Automotive
5 7 (4.70%) Retail
6 4 (2.68%) Legal
7 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.34%) Aviation
8 2 (1.34%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Environmental Health
9 1 (0.67%) French Language
9 1 (0.67%) German Language
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.67%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (24.83%) Consultant
2 28 (18.79%) Functional Consultant
3 26 (17.45%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 19 (12.75%) Senior
5 17 (11.41%) Analyst
6 13 (8.72%) Project Manager
7 11 (7.38%) SAP Consultant
8 10 (6.71%) Lead
9 9 (6.04%) Business Analyst
9 9 (6.04%) QA Specialist
10 8 (5.37%) HR Manager
10 8 (5.37%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (4.70%) Architect
11 7 (4.70%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.36%) Manufacturing Engineer
12 5 (3.36%) SAP Functional Consultant
12 5 (3.36%) SAP Manager
12 5 (3.36%) Senior Data Analyst
12 5 (3.36%) Support Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) SAP Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.01%) PyTorch
1 3 (2.01%) scikit-learn
1 3 (2.01%) TensorFlow
2 2 (1.34%) pytest
2 2 (1.34%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (1.34%) Vue
3 1 (0.67%) CSS
3 1 (0.67%) D3.js
3 1 (0.67%) HTML
3 1 (0.67%) Jinja
3 1 (0.67%) Node.js
3 1 (0.67%) Nuxt
3 1 (0.67%) React
3 1 (0.67%) Shiny
3 1 (0.67%) Svelte
3 1 (0.67%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Renewable Energy
2 7 (4.70%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.68%) LIMS
3 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.34%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Genomics
6 1 (0.67%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.67%) Omics
6 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.67%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (0.67%) Podcast
6 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.67%) Social Media
6 1 (0.67%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.34%) Linux
1 2 (1.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (28.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (23.49%) Business Transformation
3 27 (18.12%) Project Management
4 16 (10.74%) Analytics
4 16 (10.74%) Decision-Making
5 15 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (8.05%) Process Improvement
8 10 (6.71%) Biotechnology
8 10 (6.71%) Change Management
8 10 (6.71%) Validation
9 9 (6.04%) Data Management
9 9 (6.04%) Order to Cash
9 9 (6.04%) Visualisation
9 9 (6.04%) Workflow
10 8 (5.37%) Agile
10 8 (5.37%) Data Science
10 8 (5.37%) DevOps
11 7 (4.70%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.05%) Python
2 10 (6.71%) SQL
3 3 (2.01%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.34%) Go
4 2 (1.34%) Java
5 1 (0.67%) Groovy
5 1 (0.67%) R
5 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (19.46%) Degree
2 6 (4.03%) Master's Degree
2 6 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.01%) RIBA
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.67%) CCNA
6 1 (0.67%) CCNP
6 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.67%) CISSP
6 1 (0.67%) HNC
6 1 (0.67%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.67%) PhD
6 1 (0.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.40%) GxP
2 11 (7.38%) QA
3 8 (5.37%) GAMP
4 7 (4.70%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.70%) GMP
5 3 (2.01%) GDPR
5 3 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.67%) COSHH
6 1 (0.67%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.34%) Ansible
2 2 (1.34%) Terraform
3 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 59 (39.60%) SAP
2 29 (19.46%) Ariba
3 17 (11.41%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.37%) Adobe
5 4 (2.68%) Oracle
5 4 (2.68%) Workday
6 3 (2.01%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.34%) Cisco
7 2 (1.34%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.34%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.67%) BT
8 1 (0.67%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.67%) Confluent
8 1 (0.67%) Databricks
8 1 (0.67%) Google
8 1 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.67%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.67%) Talend