Life Science Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Life Sciences
Berkshire > Wokingham

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.24% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £625 £425
% change year-on-year -4.00% +47.06% +26.30%

All Generic Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 169 49 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 40.14% 42.61% 52.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 26 26
10th Percentile £268 £384 £400
25th Percentile £350 £513 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £559 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.80% +11.70% -13.04%
75th Percentile £494 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £613 £788
Berkshire median daily rate £465 £511 £480
% change year-on-year -9.05% +6.51% -4.00%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Life Science job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior SQL DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) OCP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Wonderware