Life Science Contract Job Trends in North London

Life Sciences
London > North London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in North London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North London 3.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
London median daily rate £550 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +4.49% -4.30% +6.43%

All Generic Skills
North London

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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 53.33% 31.58% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £193 £257 -
25th Percentile £353 £406 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £463 £273
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +69.41% -42.53%
75th Percentile £524 £550 £438
90th Percentile £598 - £655
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

Life Science job vacancy trend in North London

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in North London

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 North London region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Enfield - 1 - -
Life Science
London

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Housing
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Process Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow