Life Sciences
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 505 330
Rank change year-on-year -62 -175 +65
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 348 577 1,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.55% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.00% 1.29% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 135 257 202
10th Percentile £28,498 £32,626 £41,421
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +13.54% +4.09%
75th Percentile £64,375 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £119,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +11.11%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Life Science.

Salary trend for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science 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 -25 321 £45,000 -30.77% 265
UK excluding London -81 204 £40,000 -23.81% 194
Work from Home +47 154 £52,500 -25.00% 88
London +77 135 £67,500 -3.57% 90
North of England -25 58 £40,000 -23.81% 47
South East -16 53 £40,000 -21.95% 61
East of England +3 34 £40,000 -15.79% 37
Yorkshire +28 31 £32,500 - 18
North West +3 23 £52,500 -19.23% 24
Midlands +13 22 £62,500 -24.01% 14
East Midlands -7 17 - - 2
South West +10 16 £42,500 -5.56% 10
Scotland -61 16 £60,000 -7.69% 22
West Midlands +24 5 £62,500 -30.56% 12
North East -8 4 £27,875 -75.76% 11
Wales - 3 £62,883 - 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £60,000 - 3

Life Science
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 10 (2.87%) Documentum
1 10 (2.87%) SAS
2 8 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.72%) OpenStack
3 6 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (3.74%) TrackWise
2 11 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.15%) SAP BPC
3 4 (1.15%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.15%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.15%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.15%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.15%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.86%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 42 (12.07%) Azure
2 29 (8.33%) AWS
3 22 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (5.75%) Snowflake
5 12 (3.45%) GitHub
6 9 (2.59%) SaaS
6 9 (2.59%) Serverless
7 8 (2.30%) IaaS
8 7 (2.01%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.72%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.44%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.15%) Dagster
12 3 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.86%) PaaS
12 3 (0.86%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.57%) Figma
13 2 (0.57%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.89%) Firewall
2 6 (1.72%) LAN
2 6 (1.72%) SAN
2 6 (1.72%) WAN
3 5 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.15%) VPN
4 4 (1.15%) Wireless
5 3 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
5 3 (0.86%) NAS
5 3 (0.86%) VoIP
6 2 (0.57%) DHCP
6 2 (0.57%) DNS
6 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.29%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.29%) Network Security
7 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.63%) SQL Server
2 22 (6.32%) Tableau
3 9 (2.59%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.01%) Power BI
5 6 (1.72%) MySQL
6 5 (1.44%) MS Access
7 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.15%) Big Data
7 4 (1.15%) Metadata
7 4 (1.15%) SAP BW
8 3 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.57%) Base SAS
9 2 (0.57%) EDMS
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.57%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.57%) SQLite
10 1 (0.29%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (2.01%) Git
2 5 (1.44%) InstallShield
2 5 (1.44%) JIRA
3 4 (1.15%) Snakemake
4 2 (0.57%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 141 (40.52%) Social Skills
2 130 (37.36%) Pharmaceutical
3 87 (25.00%) Finance
4 76 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (17.24%) Marketing
6 50 (14.37%) Manufacturing
7 43 (12.36%) Law
8 38 (10.92%) Retail
9 37 (10.63%) Legal
10 34 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (3.74%) Billing
12 7 (2.01%) French Language
12 7 (2.01%) Military
13 6 (1.72%) German Language
13 6 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.72%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.72%) Spanish Language
14 5 (1.44%) Games
14 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.15%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 82 (23.56%) Analyst
2 60 (17.24%) Senior
3 21 (6.03%) Developer
4 20 (5.75%) Development Manager
5 19 (5.46%) Senior Manager
6 17 (4.89%) Business Development Manager
6 17 (4.89%) Business Manager
7 16 (4.60%) QA Manager
8 15 (4.31%) IT Analyst
8 15 (4.31%) Research Analyst
8 15 (4.31%) Software Engineer
9 13 (3.74%) Associate Director
9 13 (3.74%) Data Scientist
9 13 (3.74%) IT Support
9 13 (3.74%) Lead
10 12 (3.45%) IT Manager
10 12 (3.45%) Project Manager
10 12 (3.45%) Senior Data Scientist
11 11 (3.16%) Service Analyst
11 11 (3.16%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.47%) HTML
2 24 (6.90%) CSS
3 9 (2.59%) .NET
4 7 (2.01%) XML
5 5 (1.44%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.44%) PyTorch
5 5 (1.44%) React
6 4 (1.15%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.15%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.15%) EDI
6 4 (1.15%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.29%) FHIR
7 1 (0.29%) NumPy
7 1 (0.29%) Pandas
7 1 (0.29%) SAML
7 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.29%) Spring
7 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.91%) Biopharmaceutical
2 20 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 12 (3.45%) LIMS
3 12 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
3 12 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.16%) Algorithms
4 11 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.30%) Driving Licence
7 7 (2.01%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.15%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.15%) Omics
8 4 (1.15%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.86%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.86%) NHS
9 3 (0.86%) Pharmacovigilance
9 3 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 45 (12.93%) Windows
2 20 (5.75%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.02%) Linux
4 7 (2.01%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.86%) Unix
6 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (22.13%) Biotechnology
3 49 (14.08%) Analytics
4 47 (13.51%) Business Development
4 47 (13.51%) Computer Science
5 39 (11.21%) Validation
6 38 (10.92%) Data Science
7 33 (9.48%) Data Management
8 31 (8.91%) Project Management
9 29 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (7.18%) Chemistry
11 24 (6.90%) Software Engineering
12 23 (6.61%) Machine Learning
12 23 (6.61%) Mathematics
12 23 (6.61%) Statistics
13 21 (6.03%) Neuroscience
14 20 (5.75%) Agile
15 19 (5.46%) OO
15 19 (5.46%) Time Management
16 17 (4.89%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 50 (14.37%) SQL
2 25 (7.18%) JavaScript
3 24 (6.90%) Python
4 20 (5.75%) T-SQL
5 17 (4.89%) C#
6 13 (3.74%) Ruby
7 10 (2.87%) Bash
7 10 (2.87%) Java
8 5 (1.44%) C++
8 5 (1.44%) VB
9 4 (1.15%) Delphi
10 3 (0.86%) R
11 2 (0.57%) PHP
11 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.57%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.29%) Go
12 1 (0.29%) Scala
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 193 (55.46%) Degree
2 43 (12.36%) PhD
3 30 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (8.62%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.87%) CFA
4 10 (2.87%) CIMA
4 10 (2.87%) MBA
4 10 (2.87%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.01%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.86%) CISA
6 3 (0.86%) CISSP
6 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.86%) PMP
7 1 (0.29%) MCSE
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.29%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.33%) QA
2 24 (6.90%) SLA
3 23 (6.61%) GMP
4 15 (4.31%) GLP
5 11 (3.16%) GxP
6 10 (2.87%) Good Clinical Practice
7 9 (2.59%) CDISC
8 8 (2.30%) Accessibility
9 6 (1.72%) GDPR
10 5 (1.44%) GAMP
10 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (1.15%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.86%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.86%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.57%) GRC
13 2 (0.57%) ITGC
13 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.74%) Hyper-V
3 10 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.57%) Docker
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (2.01%) SCCM
3 4 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.86%) Terraform
5 2 (0.57%) Nessus
5 2 (0.57%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.57%) Puppet
6 1 (0.29%) Ansible
6 1 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 77 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.46%) SAP
3 15 (4.31%) VMware
4 13 (3.74%) iManage
5 10 (2.87%) Oracle
6 6 (1.72%) QAD
7 4 (1.15%) F5
7 4 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.57%) Adobe
8 2 (0.57%) Apple
8 2 (0.57%) Blue Prism
8 2 (0.57%) Cisco
8 2 (0.57%) IONA
9 1 (0.29%) Citrix
9 1 (0.29%) Google
9 1 (0.29%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.29%) HP
9 1 (0.29%) Juniper
9 1 (0.29%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.29%) Verint