Biomedicine Contracts in England

Biomedicine (Biomedical)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Biomedicine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biomedicine over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 515 603
Rank change year-on-year +28 +88 +157
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Biomedicine 10 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.006% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.007% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £494 £412 -
25th Percentile £569 £467 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £578 £250
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +131.00% -58.33%
75th Percentile £675 £682 -
90th Percentile - £733 -
UK median daily rate £650 £578 £250
% change year-on-year +12.55% +131.00% -58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Biomedicine 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,062 28,457 39,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.79% 85.79% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,974 18,468 27,622
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £626 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,582 1,376
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.12 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% +4.66% +51.39%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.15% +54.72%

Biomedicine
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Biomedicine in England

Biomedicine
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Biomedicine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Biomedicine

Biomedicine
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biomedicine in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Biomedicine in England

Biomedicine
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Biomedicine.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Biomedicine

Biomedicine
DemandTrendContract 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 Biomedicine within the England region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +26 5 £650 +12.55% 41
East of England - 5 £475 - 7
Biomedicine
UK

Biomedicine
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 1 (10.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Benchling
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) IT Support
1 4 (40.00%) Research Manager
1 4 (40.00%) Support Officer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Molecular Biology
2 2 (20.00%) Genomics
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Biology
1 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (40.00%) Data Management
1 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
2 2 (20.00%) Biotechnology
2 2 (20.00%) Data Science
2 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Microscopy
3 1 (10.00%) Open Source
3 1 (10.00%) Pattern Recognition
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GxP
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) GPFS
1 4 (40.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft