Life Science Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Life Sciences
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 47 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 +22
Contract jobs citing Life Science 10 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.33% 1.53% 1.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.35% 6.20% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile - £483 £330
25th Percentile £379 £488 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £520 £581 £525
90th Percentile £538 £620 £570
East of England median daily rate £580 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -3.33% +33.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +71.43%

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

Life Science falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 107 129 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 35.67% 24.71% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 69 91
10th Percentile £195 £178 £225
25th Percentile £363 £300 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £563 £525
90th Percentile £650 £638 £588
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 3
10th Percentile £13.80 £25.00 £54.50
25th Percentile £18.01 £35.51 £55.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% -8.33% +287.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £66.50 £66.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -0.83% +81.93%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in Cambridgeshire

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Life Science in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Life Science in Cambridgeshire

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Life Science in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Life Science in Cambridgeshire

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Life Science in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in Cambridgeshire

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge +12 8 £488 -18.75% 42
Life Science
East of England

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (20.00%) Text Mining
General
1 4 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Design Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) FPGA Design Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) FPGA Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Information Scientist
1 2 (20.00%) IT Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Procurement Administrator
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
2 1 (10.00%) ERP Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Junior
2 1 (10.00%) Junior IT Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) FPGA
1 2 (20.00%) VHDL
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Analytics
1 2 (20.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (20.00%) Change Management
1 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (20.00%) Data Science
1 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (20.00%) Economics
1 2 (20.00%) FPGA Design
1 2 (20.00%) Health Informatics
1 2 (20.00%) Informatics
1 2 (20.00%) Ontologies
1 2 (20.00%) OpenUP
1 2 (20.00%) Physics
1 2 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (20.00%) Service Management
1 2 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Analytics
1 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) Ariba
2 2 (20.00%) Lattice Semiconductor
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow