Biotechnology Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Biotechnology (Biotech)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Biotechnology skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 - 184
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Biotechnology 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.031% - 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £365 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £560
75th Percentile £565 - -
90th Percentile £616 - -
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Biotechnology 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 5,412 2,954 3,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.14% 89.87% 85.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 1,898 2,403
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £667 £645 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 151 366
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.94 £12.50
Median hourly rate £52.78 £27.50 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +91.91% +53.98% -35.52%
75th Percentile £71.50 £57.93 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £78.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

Biotechnology
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Biotechnology job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biotechnology in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Biotechnology in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Biotechnology.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Biotechnology

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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 Biotechnology within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 May 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 East - 1 £290 - 1
North West - 1 £650 - 4
Biotechnology
England

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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 (50.00%) Collibra
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ER Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) RDF
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SHACL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory