The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Life Science 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
Life Sciences
Rank 124 102 112
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +10
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 3 23 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.159% 1.162% 0.550%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.472% 2.987% 1.417%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 12
Average salary £37,500 £30,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -52.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year
-11.76% -32.00%
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%
Life Science
Cambridgeshire

Life Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Life Science Jobs Demand Trend

Life Science
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Life Science Salary Trend

Life Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 11 (91.67%) Text Mining
2 9 (75.00%) Grid Computing
2 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 9 (75.00%) Chemistry
2 9 (75.00%) QA
2 9 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 9 (75.00%) Web Services
2 9 (75.00%) Postgraduate
3 3 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) HTTPS
4 2 (16.67%) HTTP
4 2 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Informatics
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) B2B
5 1 (8.333%) Data Management
5 1 (8.333%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.333%) Bioinformatics
5 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.333%) iSCSI
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (8.333%) NAS
5 1 (8.333%) Isilon

Life Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Life Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (75.00%) Web Services
1 9 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
3 1 (8.333%) COM
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (8.333%) SNMP
3 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.333%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) LAN
3 1 (8.333%) WAN
3 1 (8.333%) SMTP
3 1 (8.333%) DHCP
3 1 (8.333%) FTP
3 1 (8.333%) SAN
3 1 (8.333%) iSCSI
3 1 (8.333%) NAS
3 1 (8.333%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) Text Mining
2 2 (16.67%) Big Data
General
1 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Senior QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Grid Computing
1 9 (75.00%) Chemistry
2 2 (16.67%) Informatics
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) UNIX
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
1 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000 Server
1 1 (8.333%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (16.67%) B2B
3 1 (8.333%) Workflow
3 1 (8.333%) Data Management
3 1 (8.333%) Data Analysis
3 1 (8.333%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (8.333%) DNA
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Postgraduate
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) NFS
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (8.333%) Cisco
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.333%) HP
1 1 (8.333%) EMC
1 1 (8.333%) Isilon
Cambridge, East Anglia
Client Liaison Scientist - Bioinformatics / Mathematics; Genetics; Analysis; Customer-facing... - Demonstrable scripting experience using Perl or Python on UNIX / Linux... - Experience with open-source bioinformatics tools and applied statistics.
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Excellent + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013