Life Science Jobs in the City of London

Life Sciences
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 234 263
Rank change year-on-year +67 +29 -37
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 12 6 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.36% 0.13% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 0.31% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - - £47,650
25th Percentile £51,000 £42,750 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% +5.26% +26.67%
75th Percentile £88,125 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £68,500 -
Central London median annual salary £67,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +11.67% -5.51% -2.31%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Life Science is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,116 1,936 3,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.22% 40.82% 42.63%
Number of salaries quoted 880 1,623 2,425
10th Percentile £40,450 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £51,625 £58,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Life Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the City of London

Life Science
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Life Science in the City of London.

Salary trend for Life Science in the City of London

Life Science
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Life Science in the City of London

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (66.67%) Tableau
3 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (16.67%) MySQL
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (16.67%) SQLite
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (66.67%) Marketing
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Software Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) CSS
1 8 (66.67%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (16.67%) Learning Management System
1 2 (16.67%) LIMS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Informatics
3 2 (16.67%) Biotechnology
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Robotic Automation
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (8.33%) B2B
4 1 (8.33%) Biology
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 8 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle