The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biotechnology in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Biotechnology over the 3 months to 23 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.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Biotechnology
Rank 836 881 841
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -40
Permanent jobs citing Biotechnology 26 17 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.014% 0.025%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.072% 0.043% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 18
Average salary £28,750 £30,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.16% -27.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,270 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,750 £47,000 £69,000
UK excluding London average salary £28,750 £33,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year
-12.87% -47.20%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
35925 39961 43579
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.40% 33.10% 34.57%
Number of salaries quoted 29475 33667 36543
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Biotechnology
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Biotechnology within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Biotechnology Jobs Demand Trend

Biotechnology
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Biotechnology within the UK.

Biotechnology Salary Trend

Biotechnology
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Biotechnology over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Biotechnology Salary Histogram

Biotechnology
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biotechnology within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +33 24 £27,500 -8.33%
Surrey +29 19 £27,500 -3.96%
South East +15 19 £27,500 -21.42%
North West -14 2 £48,750 +77.27%
Manchester -15 2 £48,750 +77.27%
Scotland - 2 £40,995 -
Dundee - 2 £40,995 -
London +36 1 - -
East of England +10 1 £30,000 -9.09%
Uxbridge +3 1 - -
Stockport -3 1 £42,500 +54.54%
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £30,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Sheffield - 1 - -

Biotechnology
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Biotechnology 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 Biotechnology.

1 56 (93.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 35 (58.33%) Life Science
3 33 (55.00%) Chemistry
4 32 (53.33%) Bioinformatics
4 32 (53.33%) PhD
5 30 (50.00%) Validation
6 27 (45.00%) Biology
7 26 (43.33%) SQL
8 22 (36.67%) PL/SQL
9 19 (31.67%) Java
10 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
10 18 (30.00%) Data Management
11 17 (28.33%) LIMS
11 17 (28.33%) Manufacturing
11 17 (28.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 17 (28.33%) GxP
11 17 (28.33%) MS Excel
11 17 (28.33%) Software Deployment
11 17 (28.33%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (25.00%) Oracle
12 15 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
13 14 (23.33%) Web Services
13 14 (23.33%) Windows
14 10 (16.67%) Linux
14 10 (16.67%) Scrum
15 9 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
15 9 (15.00%) CIPD
15 9 (15.00%) Degree
16 8 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 8 (13.33%) TIBCO

Biotechnology
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Biotechnology 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 Biotechnology. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (23.33%) Web Services
2 6 (10.00%) J2EE
3 1 (1.667%) Swing
3 1 (1.667%) STL
3 1 (1.667%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (13.33%) ESB
2 5 (8.333%) SAS
3 2 (3.333%) IIS
3 2 (3.333%) Apache
4 1 (1.667%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.667%) CloudStack
Applications
1 17 (28.33%) MS Excel
2 9 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (5.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.333%) Ethernet
1 2 (3.333%) Wireless
1 2 (3.333%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Selenium
1 6 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (10.00%) JMeter
1 6 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 56 (93.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 17 (28.33%) Manufacturing
3 3 (5.000%) Electronics
4 2 (3.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 26 (43.33%) Consultant
2 9 (15.00%) Training Consultant
2 9 (15.00%) Analyst
2 9 (15.00%) Trainer
3 8 (13.33%) Development Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) Senior Development Analyst
3 8 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Software Tester
4 6 (10.00%) Tester
5 3 (5.000%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) SAS Programmer
5 3 (5.000%) Desktop Support Specialist
5 3 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Desktop Support
5 3 (5.000%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.000%) Programmer
5 3 (5.000%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Support Specialist
5 3 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 35 (58.33%) Life Science
2 33 (55.00%) Chemistry
3 27 (45.00%) Biology
4 17 (28.33%) LIMS
4 17 (28.33%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.667%) Informatics
6 2 (3.333%) Biometrics
6 2 (3.333%) Visualisation
6 2 (3.333%) Computer Science
6 2 (3.333%) Statistics
7 1 (1.667%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 1 (1.667%) Open Source
7 1 (1.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Windows
2 10 (16.67%) Linux
3 6 (10.00%) Solaris
3 6 (10.00%) Mac OS X
4 3 (5.000%) Windows 7
5 2 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.333%) CentOS
5 2 (3.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.333%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Bioinformatics
2 30 (50.00%) Validation
3 18 (30.00%) Data Management
4 17 (28.33%) Software Deployment
5 15 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (16.67%) Scrum
7 8 (13.33%) Process Management
7 8 (13.33%) SOA
7 8 (13.33%) Unit Testing
7 8 (13.33%) Test Scripting
7 8 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 8 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
8 4 (6.667%) Project Management
8 4 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.000%) Business Development
9 3 (5.000%) Data Analysis
10 2 (3.333%) Risk Management
10 2 (3.333%) Biostatistics
11 1 (1.667%) Business Continuity
11 1 (1.667%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (43.33%) SQL
2 22 (36.67%) PL/SQL
3 19 (31.67%) Java
4 2 (3.333%) Python
5 1 (1.667%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.667%) Perl
5 1 (1.667%) PHP
5 1 (1.667%) C++
5 1 (1.667%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 32 (53.33%) PhD
2 9 (15.00%) CIPD
2 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 6 (10.00%) ISEB
4 3 (5.000%) MCITP
4 3 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 17 (28.33%) GxP
2 8 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (13.33%) GCP
2 8 (13.33%) QA
3 6 (10.00%) GLP
4 3 (5.000%) CDISC
System Software
1 3 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.667%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.667%) Puppet
2 1 (1.667%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Oracle
3 8 (13.33%) TIBCO
4 3 (5.000%) VMware
5 2 (3.333%) JBoss
6 1 (1.667%) Google
6 1 (1.667%) Citrix
6 1 (1.667%) SAP
Waterlooville, Hampshire
Their clients are leading life science organisations including those working in: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Consumer Health, Medical Devices, and Dietary Supplements... Suitable candidates must be able to demonstrate the...
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Salary: £80000 - £110000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013