Biomedicine Contract Job Trends in London

Biomedicine (Biomedical)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Biomedicine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 374 363 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing Biomedicine 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.007% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £582 - -
25th Percentile - £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.50% - -
75th Percentile £663 £425 -
90th Percentile £678 - -
England median daily rate £614 £400 -
% change year-on-year +53.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,132 13,242 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.11% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,660 8,491 11,705
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 162 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.73 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.65% +8.46% -15.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Biomedicine
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Biomedicine relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Biomedicine job vacancy trend in London

Biomedicine
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biomedicine

Biomedicine
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biomedicine

Biomedicine
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biomedicine within the London region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Central London - 1 £645 - 4
Biomedicine
England

Biomedicine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Benchling
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 4 (57.14%) Publishing
2 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DataOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Genomics
2 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 4 (57.14%) Omics
3 3 (42.86%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (28.57%) Life Science
5 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
1 6 (85.71%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) AI
2 5 (71.43%) Data Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Data Governance
3 4 (57.14%) Code Coverage
3 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) DataOps
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (57.14%) GitOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GxP
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft