Life Science Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Life Science over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Life Sciences
Rank 514 543 573
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +30
Contract jobs citing Life Science 27 22 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.058% 0.038% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.220% 0.154% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 7
Average daily rate £481 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.23% +41.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £431 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+32.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +334.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £11.50
% change year-on-year
-50.00% +334.78%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12277 14313 17463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.50% 24.52% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7372 8397 10373
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 663 738
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £45.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%

Life Science
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Life Science within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Life Science Jobs Demand Trend

Life Science
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Life Science within the UK.

Life Science Daily Rate Trend

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Life Science within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Life Science Daily Rate Histogram

Life Science
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Life Science within the UK.

Life Science Hourly Rate Trend

Life Science
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +52 27 £481 +4.05%
London +40 15 £500 +8.10%
South East +19 7 £513 -2.38%
City of London - 7 £450 -
North West +11 4 £304 +75.83%
Manchester - 3 £258 -
West Sussex +17 2 - -
Hampshire 0 2 £550 -
Merseyside +2 1 £350 -
East of England - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Uxbridge - 1 £190 -
Southampton - 1 £550 -
Liverpool - 1 £350 -
Horsham - 1 - -
Basingstoke - 1 - -

Life Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Life Science also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Life Science.

1 23 (47.92%) Pharmaceutical
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 12 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 10 (20.83%) Project Management
5 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 6 (12.50%) SQL
6 6 (12.50%) ERP
6 6 (12.50%) Degree
6 6 (12.50%) Pega
7 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
7 5 (10.42%) Quality Management
7 5 (10.42%) Validation
7 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
7 5 (10.42%) Oracle
8 4 (8.333%) CRM
8 4 (8.333%) TOGAF
8 4 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (8.333%) Technical Architecture
8 4 (8.333%) Change Control
9 3 (6.250%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (6.250%) Portfolio Management
9 3 (6.250%) jQuery
9 3 (6.250%) French Language
9 3 (6.250%) German Language
9 3 (6.250%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (6.250%) Business Analysis
9 3 (6.250%) ITIL
9 3 (6.250%) PRINCE2
9 3 (6.250%) GxP

Life Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Life Science also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Life Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.250%) jQuery
2 2 (4.167%) HTML5
3 1 (2.083%) OpenCL
3 1 (2.083%) Ajax
3 1 (2.083%) HTML
3 1 (2.083%) .NET
3 1 (2.083%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (2.083%) SAS
1 1 (2.083%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.250%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.167%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (4.167%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.167%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.083%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (2.083%) Tridion
3 1 (2.083%) SAP PP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) LAN
1 1 (2.083%) WAN
1 1 (2.083%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.083%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.083%) Big Data
1 1 (2.083%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.083%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 2 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.083%) LabVIEW
General
1 23 (47.92%) Pharmaceutical
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 12 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 8 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.250%) French Language
5 3 (6.250%) German Language
6 2 (4.167%) Italian Language
7 1 (2.083%) Marketing
7 1 (2.083%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Project Manager
1 10 (20.83%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Consultant
5 4 (8.333%) Lead Architect
5 4 (8.333%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.250%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.250%) Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Junior
7 2 (4.167%) QA Manager
7 2 (4.167%) Quality Manager
7 2 (4.167%) Dynamics AX Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Oracle Project Manager
7 2 (4.167%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.083%) Product Specialist
8 1 (2.083%) Junior Analyst
8 1 (2.083%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 1 (2.083%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.167%) LIMS
2 2 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.083%) CUDA
3 1 (2.083%) Visualisation
3 1 (2.083%) SCADA
3 1 (2.083%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.083%) Chemistry
3 1 (2.083%) Biology
3 1 (2.083%) FMCG
3 1 (2.083%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.250%) Windows
2 1 (2.083%) Windows Vista
2 1 (2.083%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (2.083%) UNIX
2 1 (2.083%) Windows XP
2 1 (2.083%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.83%) Project Management
2 6 (12.50%) ERP
3 5 (10.42%) Quality Management
3 5 (10.42%) Validation
3 5 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (8.333%) CRM
4 4 (8.333%) TOGAF
4 4 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (8.333%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (8.333%) Change Control
5 3 (6.250%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (6.250%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (6.250%) Business Analysis
5 3 (6.250%) ITIL
5 3 (6.250%) PRINCE2
5 3 (6.250%) Change Management
6 2 (4.167%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (4.167%) Data Modelling
6 2 (4.167%) Migration
6 2 (4.167%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (6.250%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.167%) C++
3 2 (4.167%) Java
4 1 (2.083%) R
4 1 (2.083%) Fortran
4 1 (2.083%) C
4 1 (2.083%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.083%) Python
4 1 (2.083%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (6.250%) PMP
2 3 (6.250%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.083%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) GxP
2 2 (4.167%) QA
3 1 (2.083%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.083%) GAMP
3 1 (2.083%) SLA
3 1 (2.083%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.083%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Pega
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 3 (6.250%) SAP
4 2 (4.167%) HP
4 2 (4.167%) Primavera
5 1 (2.083%) LANDesk
5 1 (2.083%) Siebel
5 1 (2.083%) IBM
5 1 (2.083%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.083%) Informatica
5 1 (2.083%) NetApp
5 1 (2.083%) Salesforce.com
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