Biology Job Trends in Cambridge

Biology
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Biology skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 52 61
Rank change year-on-year -23 +9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Biology 5 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.40% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.29% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Biology falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 896 345 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 71.85% 92.99% 79.16%
Number of salaries quoted 724 236 272
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £28,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -33.33% +22.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £70,000 £89,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +9.09%

Biology
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Biology relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Biology job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Biology
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Biology.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Biology

Biology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Coordinator
1 2 (40.00%) Facilities Coordinator
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Computational Chemist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) EDI
2 1 (20.00%) Google JAX
2 1 (20.00%) JAX
2 1 (20.00%) LDAP
2 1 (20.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
2 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (60.00%) Molecular Biology
2 2 (40.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Debian
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) macOS
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Biomedicine
1 2 (40.00%) Biotechnology
1 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (40.00%) Chemistry
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Facilities Management
1 2 (40.00%) Line Management
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) AI
2 1 (20.00%) Cheminformatics
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Vision
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (20.00%) LLM
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) Fortran
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) PhD
2 2 (40.00%) HNC
2 2 (40.00%) HND
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Ceph
1 1 (20.00%) Lustre
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
1 1 (20.00%) Samba
1 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat