Life Science Contracts in Oxfordshire

Life Sciences
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 32 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Life Science 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.76% 0.40% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.90% 1.30% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile £448 - -
South East median daily rate £425 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -17.48% +3.00% +51.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £42.00 £36.98 -
% change year-on-year +13.57% - -

All Generic Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 58 77 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 25.55% 31.05% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 58
10th Percentile £173 £243 £154
25th Percentile £222 £354 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% +17.65% +0.71%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £558
90th Percentile £623 £680 £717
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 7
10th Percentile - - £17.42
25th Percentile £11.50 - £18.71
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.63% -9.60% -37.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £26.75 -
90th Percentile - £28.60 -
South East median hourly rate £44.69 £50.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -10.63% +132.56% -25.86%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in Oxfordshire

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Life Science in Oxfordshire

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Oxford - 3 £425 - 4
Life Science
South East

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (25.00%) Data Science
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto