Life Science Jobs in Belfast

Life Sciences
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in Belfast. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 59 -
Rank change year-on-year +35 - -
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 5 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 2.98% 0.39% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.93% 1.64% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Generic Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 56 122 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Belfast 33.33% 24.02% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 11 63 121
10th Percentile £47,500 £31,999 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £87,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
County Antrim median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Life Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in Belfast

Life Science
Salary Trend in Belfast

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Life Science in Belfast.

Salary trend for Life Science in Belfast

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) nginx
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Mockito
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 5 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 5 (100.00%) Guice
1 5 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Mustache
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Swagger
1 5 (100.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 5 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 5 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 5 (100.00%) Packer
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat