Life Science Job Trends in Abingdon

Life Sciences
Oxfordshire > Abingdon

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in Abingdon. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Abingdon 0.78% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £67,500 - £45,000
% change year-on-year - - +27.08%

All Generic Skills
Abingdon

Life Science falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Abingdon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9 10 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Abingdon 6.98% 52.63% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 16
10th Percentile £41,875 £37,986 £30,506
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,715 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £39,929 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.74% -11.27% -9.96%
75th Percentile £61,875 £41,215 £56,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £41,986 -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £53,250 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.22% +5.22% +6.38%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Abingdon

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

Life Science job vacancy trend in Abingdon

Life Science
Salary Trend in Abingdon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Life Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Abingdon citing Life Science

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Abingdon 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 CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware