The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Life Science over the 3 months to 20 June 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Life Sciences
Rank 315 327 332
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 7 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.057% 0.015% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.135% 0.039% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 4
Average salary £37,500 £58,750 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.17% +38.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £47,750 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £69,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -28.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
5192 5087 6919
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 42.62% 39.26% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4448 4680 6213
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £92,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Life Science
London

Life Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Life Science Salary Trend

Life Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Manufacturing
3 5 (35.71%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
4 4 (28.57%) Pega
5 3 (21.43%) Windows
6 2 (14.29%) Linux
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 2 (14.29%) Legal
6 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (14.29%) Business Transformation
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
6 2 (14.29%) Banking
7 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
7 1 (7.143%) Billing
7 1 (7.143%) Content Management
7 1 (7.143%) Document Management
7 1 (7.143%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (7.143%) CMS
7 1 (7.143%) Digital Media
7 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
7 1 (7.143%) Shibboleth
7 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (7.143%) Change Management

Life Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) CMS
1 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
1 1 (7.143%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) LAN
1 1 (7.143%) WAN
1 1 (7.143%) DHCP
1 1 (7.143%) HTTP
1 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.143%) DNS
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Manufacturing
3 5 (35.71%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (14.29%) Legal
5 2 (14.29%) Banking
6 1 (7.143%) Billing
6 1 (7.143%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Project Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Recruitment Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Product Specialist
5 1 (7.143%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Support
5 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Programme Management
2 2 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
2 2 (14.29%) Business Transformation
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) Supplier Management
3 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.143%) Content Management
3 1 (7.143%) Document Management
3 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (7.143%) Change Management
3 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) Java
1 1 (7.143%) Perl
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
1 1 (7.143%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Pega
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Apple
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) SAP