Biomedicine Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Biomedicine (Biomedical)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Biomedicine skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Biomedicine 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.014% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
England median daily rate £243 £650 £578
% change year-on-year -62.69% +12.55% +131.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,108 3,488 3,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.50% 88.73% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,610 2,218 2,115
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £402 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -6.85% -0.15%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 205 248
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.48 £14.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £25.45
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -11.08% -13.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.09 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

Biomedicine
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Biomedicine job vacancy trend in the North of England

Biomedicine
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Biomedicine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Biomedicine

Biomedicine
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biomedicine within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
North West - 1 £650 - 3
Biomedicine
England

Biomedicine
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Web
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SHACL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality