CRISPR Contract Job Trends

CRISPR
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CRISPR in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CRISPR over the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 524 584
Rank change year-on-year -100 +60 -
Contract jobs citing CRISPR 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.010% 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.028% 0.030% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 £406 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £413 £370
Median % change year-on-year - +11.49% -
75th Percentile £419 £419 £385
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £413 £370
% change year-on-year - +11.49% -

All Generic Skills
UK

CRISPR 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 14,310 9,887 13,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.15% 33.67% 30.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,007 6,263 8,623
10th Percentile £293 £287 £256
25th Percentile £408 £410 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 665 361 867
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.95 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.22 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +16.07% +24.44%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £84.60 £83.20 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £31.08 £26.00
% change year-on-year +34.94% +19.54% +16.83%

CRISPR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CRISPR job vacancy trend in the UK

CRISPR
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CRISPR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CRISPR

CRISPR
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRISPR within the UK over the 6 months to 17 March 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
England -98 4 £413 - 1
East of England -26 3 £413 - 1
UK excluding London -94 3 £413 - 1

CRISPR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

General
1 4 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) R