Biology Contracts in England

Biology
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Biology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biology over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 536 657
Rank change year-on-year +62 +121 +125
Contract jobs citing Biology 12 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.013% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.016% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £370
25th Percentile £436 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +55.48%
75th Percentile £545 - £606
90th Percentile £560 - £638
UK median daily rate £523 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +83.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £30.16 -
UK median hourly rate - £30.16 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Biology falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,247 32,161 45,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.13% 86.56% 90.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,550 21,078 31,861
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,252 1,585
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.93 £10.91
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Biology
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Biology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Biology in England

Biology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biology in England.

Daily rate trend for Biology in England

Biology
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biology in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Biology in England

Biology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biology in England.

Hourly rate trend for Biology in England

Biology
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biology within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
East of England +31 4 - - 27
London +41 2 £557 - 89
North West - 1 £523 - 18
North of England - 1 £523 - 35
Biology
UK

Biology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Collibra
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) IT Support
2 4 (33.33%) Support Officer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Research Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Pandas
1 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) LIMS
1 5 (41.67%) Molecular Biology
2 4 (33.33%) Life Science
3 2 (16.67%) Genomics
3 2 (16.67%) Omics
4 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
4 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Project Management
2 8 (66.67%) Data Management
3 7 (58.33%) Data Analysis
4 6 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (33.33%) Biomedicine
5 4 (33.33%) Chemistry
5 4 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (25.00%) Data Science
6 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 2 (16.67%) Analytics
7 2 (16.67%) Bayesian Methods
7 2 (16.67%) Computational Biology
7 2 (16.67%) Transcriptomics
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PhD
3 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 4 (33.33%) GxP
2 4 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks