Chemistry Contracts in England

Chemistry
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Chemistry skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Chemistry over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 528 636
Rank change year-on-year +67 +108 +136
Contract jobs citing Chemistry 7 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.022% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.025% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £422 - £374
25th Percentile - £350 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £363 £443
Median % change year-on-year +20.28% -18.08% -19.55%
75th Percentile £534 £388 £514
90th Percentile £541 - £536
UK median daily rate £436 £363 £443
% change year-on-year +20.28% -18.08% -19.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Chemistry 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 22,228 32,110 45,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 86.56% 90.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,553 21,055 31,791
10th Percentile £309 £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% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 2,255 1,587
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.95 £10.94
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Chemistry
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Chemistry in England

Chemistry
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Chemistry in England

Chemistry
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Chemistry in England

Chemistry
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 Chemistry within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England +8 1 £523 +49.29% 43
North West +7 1 £523 +49.29% 16
South East - 1 - - 48
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 17
London - 1 - - 42
Midlands - 1 £425 - 33
Chemistry
UK

Chemistry
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Life Science
1 4 (57.14%) LIMS
2 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
2 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (57.14%) Biology
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) CAE
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Neural Network
5 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Reinforcement Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Six Sigma
5 1 (14.29%) Statistics
5 1 (14.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) C++
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) HNC
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 4 (57.14%) GxP
2 4 (57.14%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) GLP
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks