Molecular Biology Contract Job Trends in London

Molecular Biology
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Molecular Biology in contract job vacancies in London. 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 453 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Molecular Biology 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.026% - -
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 - -
England median daily rate £770 - -

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,722 5,139 5,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.96% 38.26% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,850 3,326 3,616
10th Percentile £352 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 118 69
10th Percentile £17.38 £16.30 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% -11.29% +0.81%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.55 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £70.88 £71.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%

Molecular Biology
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Molecular Biology job vacancy trend in London

Molecular Biology
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:

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