Life Science Contracts in England

Life Sciences
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 523 626
Rank change year-on-year +94 +103 -125
Contract jobs citing Life Science 121 113 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.24% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.07% 0.72% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 45 67
10th Percentile £313 £265 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £595
90th Percentile £768 £680 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £494 £508
% change year-on-year +11.39% -2.71% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 7
10th Percentile £20.50 - £46.75
25th Percentile £28.25 £15.21 £56.25
Median hourly rate £41.50 £51.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -17.00% +41.24%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.06 £71.88
90th Percentile £61.80 £65.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -5.56% -28.00% +38.89%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,349 15,786 23,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.26% 33.56% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,319 11,005 17,096
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 549 600
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Life Science in England over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Life Science in England

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Life Science in England over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Life Science in England

Life Science
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 Life Science within the England region over the 6 months to 21 June 2024. 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
London +84 39 £575 +17.95% 107
South East -8 28 £425 -17.48% 32
North of England +31 23 £160 -73.33% 41
North West +29 23 £160 -73.33% 19
East of England +17 20 £600 +33.33% 32
South West +5 4 - - 6
West Midlands +18 1 - - 8
Midlands +17 1 - - 14
Life Science
UK

Life Science
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 4 (3.31%) CMS
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) Drupal
2 2 (1.65%) WordPress
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (12.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (2.48%) Revit
6 1 (0.83%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 20 (16.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.13%) SAP GTS
3 4 (3.31%) TrackWise
4 2 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.65%) SAP CCM
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.83%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.83%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.83%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.83%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.83%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.83%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.83%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.83%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.61%) AWS
1 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
2 7 (5.79%) Smartsheet
3 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
3 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (3.31%) Serverless
3 4 (3.31%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (2.48%) Veeva
4 3 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (1.65%) dbt
5 2 (1.65%) GCP
5 2 (1.65%) OCI
5 2 (1.65%) SaaS
5 2 (1.65%) Squarespace
5 2 (1.65%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.83%) Azure
6 1 (0.83%) Collibra
6 1 (0.83%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Firewall
1 1 (0.83%) LAN
1 1 (0.83%) Network Security
1 1 (0.83%) VPN
1 1 (0.83%) WAN
1 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.61%) Power BI
2 5 (4.13%) EDMS
2 5 (4.13%) Metadata
3 4 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.48%) Tableau
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.65%) Big Data
5 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.65%) MySQL
5 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.31%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) GitLab
2 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.83%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.83%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.83%) PyCharm
General
1 46 (38.02%) Pharmaceutical
2 44 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 28 (23.14%) Manufacturing
4 14 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.61%) Finance
6 7 (5.79%) Automotive
7 5 (4.13%) Legal
8 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.31%) Retail
9 3 (2.48%) Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.83%) Aviation
10 1 (0.83%) Environmental Health
10 1 (0.83%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (14.05%) Project Manager
2 13 (10.74%) Senior
3 12 (9.92%) Analyst
4 10 (8.26%) Lead
5 9 (7.44%) QA Specialist
5 9 (7.44%) Test Manager
6 8 (6.61%) Architect
6 8 (6.61%) Consultant
6 8 (6.61%) HR Manager
7 7 (5.79%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.96%) Business Systems Analyst
8 6 (4.96%) SAP Manager
9 5 (4.13%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.13%) Manufacturing Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (4.13%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Business Manager
10 4 (3.31%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.79%) Web Services
2 2 (1.65%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (1.65%) Vue
3 1 (0.83%) CSS
3 1 (0.83%) D3.js
3 1 (0.83%) HTML
3 1 (0.83%) Jinja
3 1 (0.83%) Node.js
3 1 (0.83%) Nuxt
3 1 (0.83%) React
3 1 (0.83%) Shiny
3 1 (0.83%) Svelte
3 1 (0.83%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (4.13%) NHS
3 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.31%) LIMS
4 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.65%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.65%) Social Media
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.83%) FMCG
6 1 (0.83%) Genomics
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) Omics
6 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (22.31%) Project Management
2 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (14.88%) Analytics
4 17 (14.05%) Agile
5 16 (13.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (9.92%) Biotechnology
7 12 (9.92%) Decision-Making
7 12 (9.92%) Process Improvement
8 10 (8.26%) Test Automation
8 10 (8.26%) Validation
9 9 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (7.44%) Business Transformation
9 9 (7.44%) Change Management
9 9 (7.44%) Computer Science
9 9 (7.44%) DevOps
9 9 (7.44%) Test Management
9 9 (7.44%) Test Strategy
9 9 (7.44%) Workflow
10 8 (6.61%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.26%) SQL
2 7 (5.79%) Python
3 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.65%) Go
4 2 (1.65%) Java
5 1 (0.83%) Groovy
5 1 (0.83%) R
5 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (24.79%) Degree
2 7 (5.79%) ISTQB
2 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) RIBA
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) CCNA
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) CISSP
7 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.83%) PhD
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.40%) GxP
2 13 (10.74%) QA
3 8 (6.61%) GAMP
4 7 (5.79%) GMP
5 6 (4.96%) HL7
6 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.83%) COSHH
7 1 (0.83%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.83%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.65%) Ansible
2 2 (1.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) SAP
2 16 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.79%) Adobe
4 6 (4.96%) Oracle
4 6 (4.96%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.31%) Ariba
5 4 (3.31%) Workday
6 2 (1.65%) Cisco
6 2 (1.65%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.65%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.65%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.83%) BT
7 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.83%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.83%) Informatica
7 1 (0.83%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.83%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Talend