Biomedicine Contracts in the UK excluding London

Biomedicine (Biomedical)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Biomedicine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biomedicine over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 - 416
Rank change year-on-year - - +90
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Biomedicine 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.032% - 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -64.66%
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £650 £578 £250
% change year-on-year +12.55% +131.00% -58.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,799 15,012 19,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.20% 82.72% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,283 8,957 12,829
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,397 1,453 1,215
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.05 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.18% +12.12% +70.45%
75th Percentile £44.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.11 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.19
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.01% +56.38%

Biomedicine
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Biomedicine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Biomedicine in the UK excluding London

Biomedicine
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Biomedicine.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Biomedicine

Biomedicine
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Biomedicine.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Biomedicine

Biomedicine
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biomedicine within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 5 £475 - 7
Biomedicine
UK

Biomedicine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MLflow
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (80.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) IT Support
1 4 (80.00%) Support Officer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Molecular Biology
2 1 (20.00%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Biology
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
2 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft