Chemistry Job Trends in Cambridge

Chemistry
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Chemistry skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Chemistry 33 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 7.19% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.21% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Chemistry 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 402 469 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 87.58% 83.01% 97.22%
Number of salaries quoted 250 252 253
10th Percentile £26,250 £38,975 £27,100
25th Percentile £31,250 £51,813 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +22.73% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £90,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +1.85%

Chemistry
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Chemistry job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Chemistry
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Chemistry.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Chemistry

Chemistry
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:

Applications
1 30 (90.91%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
1 1 (3.03%) AWS
1 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.03%) Big Data
1 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
General
1 29 (87.88%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Agriculture
3 1 (3.03%) Law
3 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (90.91%) Trainer
2 2 (6.06%) Lead
2 2 (6.06%) Research Scientist
2 2 (6.06%) Software Team Leader
2 2 (6.06%) Team Leader
3 1 (3.03%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) FHIR
1 1 (3.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (3.03%) Life Science
1 1 (3.03%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (90.91%) AI
1 30 (90.91%) Conversational UI
2 2 (6.06%) Economics
2 2 (6.06%) Physics
3 1 (3.03%) Agile
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.03%) Data Engineering
3 1 (3.03%) Data Modelling
3 1 (3.03%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (3.03%) Data Privacy
3 1 (3.03%) Data Science
3 1 (3.03%) DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) ETL
3 1 (3.03%) Machine Learning
3 1 (3.03%) Mathematics
3 1 (3.03%) Neuroscience
3 1 (3.03%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (3.03%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (3.03%) Statistics
3 1 (3.03%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.03%) Python
1 1 (3.03%) R
1 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (93.94%) Degree
1 31 (93.94%) Master's Degree
2 30 (90.91%) PhD
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) CDISC
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.03%) DICOM
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.03%) HL7
1 1 (3.03%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (90.91%) PayPal