Biotechnology Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Biotechnology (Biotech)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Biotechnology skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing Biotechnology 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.69% 0.65% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £543 - -
25th Percentile £668 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £950 - -
75th Percentile £1,025 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £950 £530 -
% change year-on-year +79.25% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 322 140 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 73.85% 90.91% 75.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 75 105
10th Percentile £225 £181 £180
25th Percentile £363 £250 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £500
90th Percentile £700 £688 £614
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 19 25
10th Percentile £13.94 £17.71 £11.50
25th Percentile £19.27 £25.15 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £26.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.25% +35.90% -39.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.90 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £89.63 £65.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £21.99 £56.89
% change year-on-year +150.17% -61.35% +13.77%

Biotechnology
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Biotechnology job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Biotechnology
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Biotechnology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Biotechnology

Biotechnology
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biotechnology in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Biotechnology in Oxfordshire

Biotechnology
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biotechnology within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Oxford 0 3 £950 - 1
Biotechnology
South East

Biotechnology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Smartsheet
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) LLM
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) MLOps
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Gantt Chart
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CAPM
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow