Molecular Biology Contract Job Trends in England

Molecular Biology
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Molecular Biology in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Molecular Biology over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 497 -
Rank change year-on-year -129 - -
Contract jobs citing Molecular Biology 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% 0.014% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.013% 0.040% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £730 - -
25th Percentile £736 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £770 - -
75th Percentile £801 - -
90th Percentile £807 - -
UK median daily rate £770 - -

All Generic Skills
England

Molecular Biology 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 15,749 9,968 10,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.92% 35.90% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,539 6,260 6,229
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,055 499 418
10th Percentile £14.04 £15.50 £14.89
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%
75th Percentile £70.00 £58.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

Molecular Biology
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Molecular Biology relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Molecular Biology job vacancy trend in England

Molecular Biology
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Molecular Biology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Molecular Biology

Molecular 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 Molecular Biology within the England region over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. 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 - 2 £770 - 14
Molecular Biology
UK

Molecular Biology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 2 (100.00%) JAX
1 2 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Genomics
2 1 (50.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Biology
1 2 (100.00%) Biomedicine
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Proteomics
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Transcriptomics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google