Biomedicine Contracts

Biomedicine (Biomedical)
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 710 851
Rank change year-on-year +139 +141 -159
Contract jobs citing Biomedicine 7 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.010% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.011% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
10th Percentile - £236 £419
25th Percentile £425 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £250 £500
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -50.00% +93.24%
75th Percentile £567 £353 £572
90th Percentile £687 £394 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate - £250 £500
% change year-on-year - -50.00% +93.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biomedicine 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Biomedicine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biomedicine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biomedicine.

Daily rate trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biomedicine over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biomedicine.

Hourly rate trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biomedicine within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Work from Home +134 5 £450 +100.00% 16
England +105 3 £628 +151.00% 107
London +112 1 £755 +88.75% 25
UK excluding London +56 1 - - 87
North of England - 1 - - 28
North West - 1 - - 16

Biomedicine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) SOC Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) D3.js
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) Nuxt
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) Svelte
1 1 (14.29%) SvelteKit
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Cyberattack
2 1 (14.29%) Genomics
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Omics
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow
1 3 (42.86%) Workflow Management
2 1 (14.29%) API Design
2 1 (14.29%) Biotechnology
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
2 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
2 1 (14.29%) OWASP
2 1 (14.29%) Proteomics
2 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) User Experience
2 1 (14.29%) UX Design
2 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft