Life Science Contracts in the City of London

Life Sciences
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 121 171
Rank change year-on-year -2 +50 +26
Contract jobs citing Life Science 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.055% 0.19% 0.057%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.59% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £290
25th Percentile - £743 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £755 £568
Median % change year-on-year - +33.04% +3.18%
75th Percentile - £768 £773
90th Percentile - - £879
Central London median daily rate - £755 £568
% change year-on-year - +33.04% +3.18%

All Generic Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 639 675 1,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.26% 31.60% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 444 788
10th Percentile £354 £290 £348
25th Percentile £475 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £711 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £846 £863
Central London median daily rate £600 £575 £615
% change year-on-year +4.35% -6.50% +6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £20.77 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £23.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.30% -55.98% +12.37%
75th Percentile £71.37 £27.00 £87.16
90th Percentile £92.13 £36.30 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.40 £39.83
% change year-on-year +24.23% -41.25% -14.34%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Life Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the City of London

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Life Science in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Life Science in the City of London

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Life Science in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in the City of London

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Biostatistics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager