Biotechnology Contract Job Trends in the North West

Biotechnology (Biotech)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Biotechnology skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Biotechnology 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.027% - 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% - 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £708
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £715
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.35%
75th Percentile - - £723
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% +7.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,108 1,902 2,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.99% 88.10% 84.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,814 1,228 1,268
10th Percentile £281 £274 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 123 194
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -10.16% +4.78%
75th Percentile £74.45 £56.88 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.75 £70.90
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

Biotechnology
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Biotechnology job vacancy trend in the North West

Biotechnology
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Biotechnology
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Manchester - 1 £650 - 1
Biotechnology
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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%) Biomedicine
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