The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biology in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Biology over the 3 months to 17 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 for the Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Biology
Rank 126 120 119
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -1
Permanent jobs citing Biology 1 5 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.053% 0.253% 0.229%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.157% 0.649% 0.590%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
Average salary £33,500 £33,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.51% -5.71%
UK excluding London average salary £31,750 £43,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-26.16% +22.85%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
636 770 847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 33.79% 38.91% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 542 594 767
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Biology
Cambridgeshire

Biology
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Biology across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cambridge Biology Jobs Demand Trend

Biology
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Biology across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Biology Salary Trend

Biology
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Biology 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Biology.

1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Storage Server
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Apple
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby

Biology
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Biology also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Biology. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) NAS
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Storage Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
Hinxton near Cambridge, UK
Head of Technical Services Location: EMBL-EBI - Hinxton near Cambridge, UKStaff Category: Staff MemberContract Duration: 3 yearsGrading: 10Closing Date: 04 June 2013Reference number: EBI_00296Job DescriptionPart of the European...
EMBL
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 19 May 2013