Life Science Contract Job Trends in Hillingdon

Life Sciences
West London > Hillingdon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in Hillingdon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Life Science 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hillingdon 2.53% 2.17% 6.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.70% 5.88% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £511
25th Percentile - - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.42%
75th Percentile - - £603
90th Percentile - - £624
West London median daily rate £550 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +18.42%

All Generic Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23 17 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 29.11% 36.96% 61.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 36
10th Percentile £363 £169 £214
25th Percentile £406 £206 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £240 £400
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% -40.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £687 £475 £538
90th Percentile £925 - £627
West London median daily rate £594 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +48.50% -11.11% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £15.80
25th Percentile £26.25 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 - £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.55%
75th Percentile £28.75 - £30.16
90th Percentile - - £31.79
West London median hourly rate £28.55 £22.93 £30.16
% change year-on-year +24.51% -23.97% -52.69%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Life Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon.

Life Science job vacancy trend in Hillingdon

Life Science
Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Life Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hillingdon citing Life Science

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Uxbridge -11 2 £550 - 2
Stockley Park - 2 £550 - 1
Life Science
West London

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hillingdon 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Health Technology
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 2 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (100.00%) PMP
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GxP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (100.00%) Sitecore