The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Life Science over the 3 months to 21 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Life Sciences
Rank 568 556 523
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -33
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 39 82 101
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.089% 0.152% 0.178%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.223% 0.384% 0.418%
Number of salaries quoted 18 59 52
Average salary £60,000 £57,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +14.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £27,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £78,000 £87,500 £105,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £42,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year
-11.76% -32.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
17510 21371 24145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 39.83% 39.67% 42.45%
Number of salaries quoted 14443 18333 20075
Average salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.76% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £32,500 £33,250
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Life Science
England

Life Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Life Science Salary Trend

Life Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Life Science across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Life Science Salary Histogram

Life Science
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London - 4 £38,750 -
Life Science
England

Life Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 49 (44.55%) Finance
2 35 (31.82%) Degree
3 34 (30.91%) Pharmaceutical
3 34 (30.91%) Oracle
4 33 (30.00%) Manufacturing
5 23 (20.91%) SQL
6 22 (20.00%) Java
7 21 (19.09%) Project Management
8 20 (18.18%) Cognizant
9 19 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (17.27%) Linux
10 18 (16.36%) Business Development
10 18 (16.36%) Computer Science
11 16 (14.55%) PL/SQL
11 16 (14.55%) Windows
11 16 (14.55%) C
12 15 (13.64%) SAP
13 14 (12.73%) Programme Management
13 14 (12.73%) Retail
13 14 (12.73%) Information Management
14 13 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (11.82%) Analytics
15 12 (10.91%) QA
16 11 (10.00%) Marketing
17 10 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
18 9 (8.182%) Data Management
18 9 (8.182%) Spring
18 9 (8.182%) Supplier Management
18 9 (8.182%) French Language
18 9 (8.182%) German Language

Life Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 Development
1 9 (8.182%) Spring
2 8 (7.273%) .NET
3 7 (6.364%) XML
4 6 (5.455%) J2EE
5 5 (4.545%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (4.545%) Middleware
5 5 (4.545%) WinForms
5 5 (4.545%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.636%) Swing
7 3 (2.727%) Velocity
8 2 (1.818%) Web Services
9 1 (0.909%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.909%) jQuery
9 1 (0.909%) XSL
9 1 (0.909%) CSS
9 1 (0.909%) SOAP
9 1 (0.909%) Backbone.js
9 1 (0.909%) HTML5
9 1 (0.909%) Node.js
9 1 (0.909%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.727%) Tomcat
1 3 (2.727%) Apache
1 3 (2.727%) Documentum
1 3 (2.727%) SAS
2 2 (1.818%) MS Exchange
3 1 (0.909%) CMS
3 1 (0.909%) FileNet
3 1 (0.909%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (8.182%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.818%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.545%) SAP ERP
1 5 (4.545%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (4.545%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.818%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.818%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.909%) Taleo
3 1 (0.909%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.909%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.909%) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.818%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.909%) Wireless
2 1 (0.909%) DNS
2 1 (0.909%) DHCP
2 1 (0.909%) HTTP
2 1 (0.909%) LAN
2 1 (0.909%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.455%) Data Mining
1 6 (5.455%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (5.455%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.545%) OLTP
3 4 (3.636%) Big Data
4 3 (2.727%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (2.727%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.818%) Spotfire
6 1 (0.909%) Text Mining
6 1 (0.909%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.909%) SAP BI
6 1 (0.909%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.909%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.909%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.909%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (5.455%) PVCS
1 6 (5.455%) Subversion
2 4 (3.636%) JUnit
2 4 (3.636%) Git (software)
2 4 (3.636%) Maven
3 1 (0.909%) ERwin
3 1 (0.909%) Xcode
3 1 (0.909%) PhoneGap
General
1 49 (44.55%) Finance
2 34 (30.91%) Pharmaceutical
3 33 (30.00%) Manufacturing
4 14 (12.73%) Retail
5 11 (10.00%) Marketing
6 9 (8.182%) French Language
6 9 (8.182%) German Language
6 9 (8.182%) Telecoms
7 8 (7.273%) Publishing
7 8 (7.273%) Banking
8 6 (5.455%) Billing
9 3 (2.727%) Legal
10 1 (0.909%) Advertising
10 1 (0.909%) Automotive
10 1 (0.909%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 26 (23.64%) Consultant
2 18 (16.36%) Developer
3 11 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 10 (9.091%) Project Manager
5 8 (7.273%) Analyst
6 7 (6.364%) QA Engineer
6 7 (6.364%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.455%) Release Analyst
7 6 (5.455%) Tester
7 6 (5.455%) IT Project Manager
7 6 (5.455%) QA Tester
7 6 (5.455%) Test Engineer
7 6 (5.455%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (4.545%) C# Developer
8 5 (4.545%) Business Consultant
8 5 (4.545%) Manual Tester
8 5 (4.545%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (3.636%) Software Applications Engineer
9 4 (3.636%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 4 (3.636%) Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Computer Science
2 6 (5.455%) CMDB
3 5 (4.545%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 5 (4.545%) Mathematics
3 5 (4.545%) N-Tier
4 4 (3.636%) Digital Media
4 4 (3.636%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.636%) Applied Mathematics
5 2 (1.818%) Chemistry
5 2 (1.818%) Statistics
5 2 (1.818%) Open Source
5 2 (1.818%) Data Integration
6 1 (0.909%) SaaS
6 1 (0.909%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.909%) Physics
6 1 (0.909%) Informatics
6 1 (0.909%) Biology
6 1 (0.909%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (0.909%) Social Network
6 1 (0.909%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.27%) Linux
2 16 (14.55%) Windows
3 7 (6.364%) UNIX
4 2 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.818%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.909%) Android
5 1 (0.909%) Windows Phone
5 1 (0.909%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (19.09%) Project Management
2 19 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (16.36%) Business Development
4 14 (12.73%) Programme Management
4 14 (12.73%) Information Management
5 13 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (11.82%) Analytics
6 10 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (8.182%) Data Management
7 9 (8.182%) Supplier Management
7 9 (8.182%) Multithreading
7 9 (8.182%) OO
7 9 (8.182%) Data Governance
8 7 (6.364%) TDD
8 7 (6.364%) Software Testing
8 7 (6.364%) Validation
8 7 (6.364%) PRINCE2
8 7 (6.364%) Data Modelling
8 7 (6.364%) Business Transformation
9 6 (5.455%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.91%) SQL
2 22 (20.00%) Java
3 16 (14.55%) PL/SQL
3 16 (14.55%) C
4 9 (8.182%) C#
4 9 (8.182%) C++
5 7 (6.364%) Python
6 6 (5.455%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.455%) Perl
6 6 (5.455%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.545%) VB6
7 5 (4.545%) VB
7 5 (4.545%) Fortran
8 4 (3.636%) Bash shell
9 2 (1.818%) R
9 2 (1.818%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 35 (31.82%) Degree
2 7 (6.364%) PhD
3 4 (3.636%) MAPM
4 1 (0.909%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.909%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) QA
2 7 (6.364%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.818%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (0.909%) Dublin Core
4 1 (0.909%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (2.727%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (1.818%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.909%) Shibboleth
Vendors
1 34 (30.91%) Oracle
2 20 (18.18%) Cognizant
3 15 (13.64%) SAP
4 7 (6.364%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.545%) PeopleSoft
6 4 (3.636%) Twitter
7 2 (1.818%) IBM
7 2 (1.818%) Salesforce.com
7 2 (1.818%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.818%) Pega
8 1 (0.909%) Teradata
8 1 (0.909%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.909%) Apple
8 1 (0.909%) Adobe
8 1 (0.909%) Interwoven
8 1 (0.909%) Siebel
8 1 (0.909%) Sencha
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Job purpose: You/the Project Manager will lead my clients project to improve over-arching Research Data Management (RDM) policies, systems and processes to ensure compliance with funders'...
Latcom Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
West London
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CRF Health
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 26 April 2013
London
Your responsibilities as the Pega Business Analyst / Consultant will include: Providing support and building strong relationships throughout the company Raising and actively managing project risks and issues, enabling...
Selecture Limited
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + package
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
The ideal Windows Systems Administrator will have experience working with the majority of the following; *Windows Server 2003 / 2008 *Windows OS *Exchange and Active Directory *Networking (routing, switching,...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Selecture Limited
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Senior Consultant - Pharmaceutical and life sciences... We're specialists in the fields of financial IT (banking, financial asset management, insurance), digital media and pharmaceutical & life sciences and also...
Cititec
Salary: £25000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
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Selecture Limited
Salary: Market rate
Posted: 17 May 2013