Biology
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Biology skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Biology over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 865 832 718
Rank change year-on-year -33 -114 +94
Permanent jobs citing Biology 31 138 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.13% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.14% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 18 33 12
10th Percentile £35,690 £27,954 £40,275
25th Percentile £51,188 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.08% -34.64% +16.97%
75th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.15% -8.50% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biology is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Biology
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biology in the UK

Biology
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Biology.

Salary trend for Biology in the UK

Biology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biology over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Biology in the UK

Biology
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biology within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +5 28 £60,000 +31.15% 97
London +120 15 £55,686 -50.50% 22
UK excluding London -83 14 £60,000 +31.15% 76
Work from Home +89 10 £75,000 +25.00% 21
South East +22 9 - - 27
North of England -12 2 - - 14
Yorkshire +33 1 - - 3
North West +9 1 - - 11
East of England +1 1 £70,000 -30.00% 26
Scotland - 1 £50,000 - 4
Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £60,000 -

Biology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Dagster
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.45%) CloudFront
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
3 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Asana
4 1 (3.23%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) BGP
1 2 (6.45%) DHCP
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) LAN
1 2 (6.45%) Network Security
1 2 (6.45%) OSPF
1 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.45%) SSL
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
1 2 (6.45%) VXLAN
1 2 (6.45%) WAN
1 2 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (6.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Redis
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) Spotfire
3 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Snakemake
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Redmine
2 1 (3.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Electronics
2 9 (29.03%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
4 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.45%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.23%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) French Language
5 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Senior
2 4 (12.90%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Communications Manager
2 4 (12.90%) Engagement Manager
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Developer
3 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Network Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Product Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Python Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Senior SQL Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Technical Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Technical Product Manager
4 1 (3.23%) QA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) PyTorch
2 3 (9.68%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) 802.1X
3 2 (6.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Molecular Biology
2 7 (22.58%) Life Science
3 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
3 4 (12.90%) Omics
3 4 (12.90%) Social Media
4 3 (9.68%) NHS
5 2 (6.45%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (6.45%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.45%) PKI
5 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.23%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Genomics
6 1 (3.23%) LIMS
6 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
6 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) Android
3 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Bioinformatics
2 9 (29.03%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (29.03%) Commercialisation
2 9 (29.03%) Disruptive Innovation
2 9 (29.03%) Informatics
3 7 (22.58%) Computational Biology
3 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
4 6 (19.35%) Biomedicine
4 6 (19.35%) Project Management
5 5 (16.13%) Biotechnology
5 5 (16.13%) Deep Learning
5 5 (16.13%) Machine Learning
5 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.90%) Data Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) DevOps
6 4 (12.90%) Ontologies
6 4 (12.90%) Open Source
7 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) Bash
3 5 (16.13%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) Java
5 3 (9.68%) Go
6 2 (6.45%) C#
6 2 (6.45%) C++
6 2 (6.45%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.45%) Ruby
7 1 (3.23%) C
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (45.16%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) Master's Degree
3 5 (16.13%) PhD
4 3 (9.68%) Postgraduate
5 2 (6.45%) CCIE
5 2 (6.45%) CCNP
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GMP
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 13485
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
2 2 (6.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
1 1 (3.23%) Google