Life Science Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Life Sciences
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in Canary Wharf. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 1.82% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Tower Hamlets median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 27 34 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 49.09% 53.97% 39.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 27
10th Percentile £358 £450 £460
25th Percentile £445 £535 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.12%
75th Percentile £651 - £585
90th Percentile £775 £680 £591
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £585 £585 £540
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +1.12%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Life Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf.

Life Science job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (100.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Delivery Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) SAP