Life Science Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Life Sciences
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in Nottingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Generic Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 83 29 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 27.39% 25.89% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 10
10th Percentile £190 £303 £231
25th Percentile £363 £420 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% +8.91%
75th Percentile £600 £572 £600
90th Percentile £664 £612 £701
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £419 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -19.08% -5.91% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile - £13.10 £14.50
25th Percentile £12.95 £13.37 £18.63
Median hourly rate £13.08 £13.81 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% -46.88% +30.00%
75th Percentile £13.28 £14.96 £26.50
90th Percentile £13.42 £15.65 -
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £13.29 £13.81 £21.32
% change year-on-year -3.75% -35.21% +6.58%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Life Science job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Life Science
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Life Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Life Science

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks