Microscopy Contract Job Trends

Microscopy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microscopy skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 - 653
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microscopy 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £387
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £387

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microscopy 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 29,565 32,750 45,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.40% 85.47% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,350 20,478 30,808
10th Percentile £300 £311 £315
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.58% -1.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,755 1,552 1,525
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.42 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.09% +2.87% +43.50%
75th Percentile £45.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £38.35
% change year-on-year -47.37% +12.13% +67.32%

Microscopy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microscopy in the UK

Microscopy
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Microscopy
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microscopy within the UK over the 6 months to 6 September 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
London - 1 £600 -
England - 1 £600 - 2

Microscopy
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Benchling
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Genomics
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 1 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 1 (100.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Pattern Recognition
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GxP
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes