Biotechnology Contracts in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology (Biotech)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Biotechnology skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Biotechnology over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 439 479
Rank change year-on-year +65 +40 -73
Contract jobs citing Biotechnology 19 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.091% 0.083% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.093% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 18
10th Percentile - £171 £417
25th Percentile £363 £210 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £250 £500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -50.00% -1.28%
75th Percentile £570 £337 £520
90th Percentile £668 £400 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 9
10th Percentile - - £47.75
25th Percentile £39.25 - £48.50
Median hourly rate £39.50 - £49.00
75th Percentile £64.88 - £49.50
90th Percentile £79.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -36.80% +27.55% +8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Biotechnology is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Biotechnology
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Biotechnology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biotechnology in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biotechnology in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biotechnology in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Biotechnology in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biotechnology within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
East of England +25 15 £500 +55.04% 20
South East +4 3 - - 35
North West - 2 £560 - 9
North of England - 2 £560 - 18
Biotechnology
UK

Biotechnology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SAP BPC
1 2 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
2 1 (5.26%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) SAP HANA
2 1 (5.26%) EDMS
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) SAP BW
General
1 14 (73.68%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (42.11%) Manufacturing
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Legal
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Author
1 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
1 4 (21.05%) Technical Author
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Audit Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) IT Security Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Project Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Writer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Life Science
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Pharmacovigilance
3 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Chemistry
2 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (15.79%) Project Management
2 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (10.53%) Analytics
3 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Data Management
3 2 (10.53%) Data Privacy
3 2 (10.53%) ERP
3 2 (10.53%) Human Resource Management
3 2 (10.53%) Order to Cash
3 2 (10.53%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
3 2 (10.53%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (10.53%) Record to Report
3 2 (10.53%) SIEM
3 2 (10.53%) Supply Chain Management
3 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
2 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) PhD
2 1 (5.26%) PMP
2 1 (5.26%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) GMP
2 4 (21.05%) GxP
3 2 (10.53%) GAMP
3 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (5.26%) NCSC
4 1 (5.26%) NIST
4 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.26%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Hyperion
1 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco
2 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft