Life Science Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Life Sciences
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies in West Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Generic Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 300 176 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.44% 28.16% 22.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 112 164
10th Percentile £338 £221 £308
25th Percentile £422 £359 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £570
90th Percentile £618 £738 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £494 £450
% change year-on-year +1.21% +9.78% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 7
10th Percentile - £36.63 £14.46
25th Percentile - £37.19 £16.12
Median hourly rate £14.25 £40.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -64.81% +129.59% -2.14%
75th Percentile £21.30 £56.04 £22.36
90th Percentile £21.78 £80.40 £24.36
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.78 £40.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.54% +128.57% +70.90%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Life Science job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Life Science
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Life Science

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 January 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
Leeds - 1 £500 - 4
Life Science
Yorkshire

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform