Life Science Contract Job Trends in Wales

Life Sciences
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.18% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £173 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - -
75th Percentile £178 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £488 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Wales

Life Science 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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 160 111 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 29.41% 38.54% 35.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 78 91
10th Percentile £210 £160 £160
25th Percentile £300 £263 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £395 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -21.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £545
90th Percentile £581 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 7
10th Percentile £17.11 £18.96 -
25th Percentile £26.70 £21.01 £11.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £33.38 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.81% +147.22% -20.73%
75th Percentile £76.25 £44.06 £19.00
90th Percentile £87.75 £45.00 £45.80
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +38.46% +4.00% +38.98%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Life Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Life Science job vacancy trend in Wales

Life Science
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Life Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Life Science

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North Wales - 1 £175 - 1
Life Science
UK

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Operations Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware