Hybrid/Remote Molecular Biology Contract Job Trends

Molecular Biology
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Molecular Biology in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Molecular Biology over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Molecular Biology 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.007% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.019% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £725 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
75th Percentile £775 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £770 - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Molecular Biology 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,214 3,475 3,830
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 38.36% 35.27% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,127 2,237 2,499
10th Percentile £363 £329 £325
25th Percentile £438 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 110 92
10th Percentile £16.33 £13.77 £20.30
25th Percentile £30.50 £24.77 £30.48
Median hourly rate £43.96 £38.50 £63.43
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -39.30% +20.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.56 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -40.00% +11.11%

Molecular Biology
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Molecular Biology and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Molecular Biology job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Molecular Biology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Google JAX
1 1 (100.00%) JAX
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 1 (100.00%) Biology
1 1 (100.00%) Computational Biology
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Proteomics
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google