Life Science Contracts in London

Life Sciences
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 468 557
Rank change year-on-year +109 +89 -118
Contract jobs citing Life Science 35 33 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 25
10th Percentile £400 £419 £423
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £768 £578 £638
90th Percentile £1,750 £638 £828
England median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £61.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - +35.87%
75th Percentile £38.75 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -33.60% - +42.05%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,855 9,701 14,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.88% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,140 6,966 10,347
10th Percentile £300 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - +10.09%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £700
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 109 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.93 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -21.35% +36.92%
75th Percentile £46.86 £64.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £67.00 £83.15 £71.51
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +2.08%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Life Science in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
West London +17 9 £563 +18.42% 7
Central London +39 3 £755 +221.28% 7
Life Science
England

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.71%) SAP CCM
3 1 (2.86%) SAP APO
3 1 (2.86%) SAP IBP
3 1 (2.86%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Amazon S3
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (11.43%) Serverless
3 3 (8.57%) GitHub
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.86%) Azure
5 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Run
5 1 (2.86%) Collibra
5 1 (2.86%) dbt
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) OCI
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Data Mining
1 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) Metadata
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.86%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.86%) PyCharm
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Pharmaceutical
3 7 (20.00%) Retail
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Finance
6 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Automotive
7 1 (2.86%) Aviation
7 1 (2.86%) Environmental Health
7 1 (2.86%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Senior
2 3 (8.57%) Architect
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (8.57%) Consultant
2 3 (8.57%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.71%) Developer
3 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
3 2 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (5.71%) SAP Manager
3 2 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
3 2 (5.71%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.86%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (2.86%) Data Scientist
4 1 (2.86%) Junior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) PyTorch
1 3 (8.57%) scikit-learn
1 3 (8.57%) TensorFlow
2 2 (5.71%) pytest
3 1 (2.86%) CSS
3 1 (2.86%) D3.js
3 1 (2.86%) HTML
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) Nuxt
3 1 (2.86%) React
3 1 (2.86%) Svelte
3 1 (2.86%) SvelteKit
3 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.71%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Genomics
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Podcast
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) DevOps
2 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (11.43%) Machine Learning
3 3 (8.57%) Analytics
3 3 (8.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (8.57%) Biotechnology
3 3 (8.57%) Change Management
3 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (8.57%) Data Management
3 3 (8.57%) Data Modelling
3 3 (8.57%) ETL
3 3 (8.57%) LLM
3 3 (8.57%) Migration
3 3 (8.57%) Open Source
3 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
3 3 (8.57%) Statistics
4 2 (5.71%) Coaching
4 2 (5.71%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (5.71%) Matrix Organization
4 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (8.57%) SQL
3 2 (5.71%) Go
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) Groovy
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.71%) GxP
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) COSHH
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) Good Clinical Practice
2 1 (2.86%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) SAP
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Ariba
4 1 (2.86%) Adobe
4 1 (2.86%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.86%) Confluent
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.86%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.86%) Talend