Biomedicine Contracts

Biomedicine (Biomedical)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 591 706
Rank change year-on-year +80 +115 +130
Contract jobs citing Biomedicine 9 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.016% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.019% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £586 - £236
25th Percentile £625 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £250
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% +90.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £675 £567 £353
90th Percentile - £687 £394
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £250
% change year-on-year - - -50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,648 37,562 53,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.33% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,170 24,188 37,115
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,066 2,451 1,742
10th Percentile £14.35 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.26 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%
75th Percentile £61.50 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%

Biomedicine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biomedicine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biomedicine.

Daily rate trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biomedicine.

Hourly rate trend for Biomedicine in the UK

Biomedicine
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +60 8 £650 +3.59% 86
UK excluding London +63 4 - - 55
London +45 4 £650 -13.91% 42
East of England - 4 - - 13
Work from Home +43 1 £560 +24.44% 17

Biomedicine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) InfiniBand
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (44.44%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) IT Support
1 4 (44.44%) Research Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Support Officer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Biology
2 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Culture
2 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Data Management
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (11.11%) Computational Biology
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Data Munging
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science
3 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
3 1 (11.11%) Gradient Boosting
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Random Forest
3 1 (11.11%) Statistics
3 1 (11.11%) Survival Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) PhD
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) GPFS
1 4 (44.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft