Life Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Life Sciences
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 362 441
Rank change year-on-year +48 +79 -114
Contract jobs citing Life Science 80 80 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.35% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.34% 1.08% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 33
10th Percentile £115 £194 £403
25th Percentile £413 £321 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +9.29%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £550
90th Percentile £625 £660 £598
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.94% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 7 2
10th Percentile £21.10 - £35.33
25th Percentile £30.38 - £39.56
Median hourly rate £42.50 £15.21 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year +179.42% -68.48% +7.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £34.25 £56.06
90th Percentile £61.90 £52.75 £59.78
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% -28.00% +38.89%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,951 7,380 9,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.68% 32.21% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,547 4,948 6,908
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £384 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 743 412 430
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.65
25th Percentile £14.12 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +61.36% -18.46% +5.80%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Life Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Life Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
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 Life Science within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -10 29 £425 -17.48% 56
North of England +45 28 £525 -2.33% 49
North West +28 28 £525 -2.33% 29
East of England +22 24 £525 +16.67% 62
South West +12 4 - - 10
Midlands +24 1 - - 17
West Midlands +16 1 - - 7
Life Science
UK

Life Science
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Drupal
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (21.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.75%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.25%) SAP GTS
3 4 (5.00%) TrackWise
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.25%) Sage X3
4 1 (1.25%) SAP BPC
4 1 (1.25%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (8.75%) Smartsheet
3 4 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (3.75%) Veeva
5 1 (1.25%) AWS
5 1 (1.25%) GCP
5 1 (1.25%) OCI
5 1 (1.25%) SaaS
5 1 (1.25%) Squarespace
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.25%) Firewall
1 1 (1.25%) LAN
1 1 (1.25%) Network Security
1 1 (1.25%) VPN
1 1 (1.25%) WAN
1 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 5 (6.25%) EDMS
3 2 (2.50%) Metadata
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Git
2 1 (1.25%) LabVIEW
General
1 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (41.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 25 (31.25%) Manufacturing
4 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Automotive
5 6 (7.50%) Finance
6 4 (5.00%) Legal
7 3 (3.75%) Banking
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (15.00%) Project Manager
2 10 (12.50%) Consultant
2 10 (12.50%) Senior
3 9 (11.25%) QA Specialist
4 8 (10.00%) Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) HR Manager
4 8 (10.00%) Lead
5 7 (8.75%) Functional Consultant
5 7 (8.75%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
6 6 (7.50%) Test Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Manufacturing Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Business Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) LIMS Business Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Business Manager
9 3 (3.75%) Business Project Manager
9 3 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Web Services
2 2 (2.50%) Smart Contracts
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Renewable Energy
2 4 (5.00%) LIMS
3 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.75%) NHS
4 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Pharmacovigilance
5 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.25%) Social Media
5 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.50%) Project Management
2 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (16.25%) Business Transformation
4 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (15.00%) Analytics
6 11 (13.75%) Agile
6 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
6 11 (13.75%) Process Improvement
7 7 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (8.75%) Validation
7 7 (8.75%) Workflow
8 6 (7.50%) Change Control
8 6 (7.50%) Change Management
8 6 (7.50%) Computer Science
8 6 (7.50%) Order to Cash
8 6 (7.50%) Software Testing
8 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
8 6 (7.50%) Test Management
8 6 (7.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (7.50%) SQL
2 1 (1.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Degree
2 6 (7.50%) ISTQB
2 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.75%) RIBA
4 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) CCNA
5 1 (1.25%) CCNP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) CISSP
5 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PhD
5 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) QA
2 8 (10.00%) GAMP
2 8 (10.00%) GxP
3 7 (8.75%) GMP
4 5 (6.25%) HL7
5 2 (2.50%) GDPR
6 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) SAP
2 13 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.75%) Ariba
4 6 (7.50%) Adobe
5 4 (5.00%) Workday
6 3 (3.75%) Oracle
7 2 (2.50%) Cisco
7 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.25%) BT
8 1 (1.25%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.25%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.25%) Sage
8 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow