Biotechnology Contracts in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology (Biotech)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Biotechnology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biotechnology over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 369 429
Rank change year-on-year +39 +60 +51
Contract jobs citing Biotechnology 7 19 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.092% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.11% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 12
10th Percentile - - £171
25th Percentile - £363 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £285
Median % change year-on-year - +75.44% -43.00%
75th Percentile - £570 £363
90th Percentile - £668 £603
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £400
% change year-on-year +2.50% +25.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £39.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £39.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -36.80% +27.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,463 17,414 21,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.37% 84.70% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,190 10,403 14,840
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 832 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Biotechnology
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biotechnology in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biotechnology in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Biotechnology in the UK excluding London

Biotechnology
Contract 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 Biotechnology within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +22 6 £500 - 21
South East +41 1 - - 30
Biotechnology
UK

Biotechnology
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:

Business Applications
1 4 (57.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (42.86%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
1 6 (85.71%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (14.29%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Insight Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Business Systems Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Manager
3 1 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
1 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Line Management
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) SAP
2 3 (42.86%) Anaplan
2 3 (42.86%) Hyperion
3 1 (14.29%) Ariba