The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Life Science over the 3 months to 18 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Life Sciences
Rank 235 247 229
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -18
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 8 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.108% 0.055% 0.014%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.388% 0.202% 0.055%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 1
Average salary £40,000 £51,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.33% -10.43%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £43,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year
-14.28% -30.00%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
2063 1983 1816
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 27.81% 27.30% 25.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1732 1674 1574
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,250 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Life Science Salary Trend

Life Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Life Science across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +10 4 £38,750 -40.38%
Manchester -13 4 £43,750 +15.13%
Life Science
England

Life Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 17 (68.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (44.00%) Cognizant
3 10 (40.00%) Oracle
4 9 (36.00%) Java
5 7 (28.00%) Finance
5 7 (28.00%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (24.00%) Degree
6 6 (24.00%) Manufacturing
6 6 (24.00%) WebLogic
6 6 (24.00%) Web Services
7 5 (20.00%) SOAP
7 5 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
7 5 (20.00%) Workflow
7 5 (20.00%) LIMS
7 5 (20.00%) Project Management
7 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Spring
7 5 (20.00%) JSF
7 5 (20.00%) Java EE
7 5 (20.00%) ICEfaces
8 4 (16.00%) JPA
8 4 (16.00%) Git (software)
8 4 (16.00%) Mockito
8 4 (16.00%) REST
8 4 (16.00%) Big Data
8 4 (16.00%) Maven
8 4 (16.00%) Content Management
8 4 (16.00%) JIRA
8 4 (16.00%) CMS

Life Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 6 (24.00%) Web Services
2 5 (20.00%) Spring
2 5 (20.00%) JSF
2 5 (20.00%) Java EE
2 5 (20.00%) SOAP
2 5 (20.00%) ICEfaces
3 4 (16.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) JPA
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.000%) EJB
4 1 (4.000%) XML
4 1 (4.000%) XSD
4 1 (4.000%) XSLT
4 1 (4.000%) WSDL
4 1 (4.000%) Middleware
4 1 (4.000%) SAP XI
4 1 (4.000%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (16.00%) Documentum
2 4 (16.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (4.000%) SAS
3 1 (4.000%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.000%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.000%) SAP BPC
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (16.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.000%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (4.000%) MySQL
4 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.000%) DB2
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JUnit
1 4 (16.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (16.00%) Maven
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
1 4 (16.00%) Git (software)
1 4 (16.00%) Mockito
General
1 17 (68.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.000%) Retail
4 2 (8.000%) Marketing
5 1 (4.000%) Electronics
5 1 (4.000%) Publishing
5 1 (4.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
1 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Product Specialist
3 2 (8.000%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.000%) Consultant
3 2 (8.000%) Account Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Programmer
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) SAS Programmer
4 1 (4.000%) Sales Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Change Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) NetWeaver Consultant
4 1 (4.000%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.000%) DB2 Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) LIMS
2 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) Statistics
2 1 (4.000%) Informatics
2 1 (4.000%) Mathematics
2 1 (4.000%) Biotechnology
2 1 (4.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 5 (20.00%) Project Management
2 5 (20.00%) Workflow
3 4 (16.00%) Content Management
4 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (12.00%) Change Management
4 3 (12.00%) CRM
4 3 (12.00%) Project Planning
5 2 (8.000%) Data Management
5 2 (8.000%) Business Development
5 2 (8.000%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (8.000%) Portfolio Management
5 2 (8.000%) Master Data Management
5 2 (8.000%) SOA
6 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.000%) B2B
6 1 (4.000%) ERP
6 1 (4.000%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.000%) XQuery
3 1 (4.000%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (4.000%) CDISC
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Cognizant
2 10 (40.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.000%) HP
4 2 (8.000%) SAP
4 2 (8.000%) Primavera
5 1 (4.000%) Twitter
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