Chemistry Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Chemistry
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 37 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +85
Permanent jobs citing Chemistry 33 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.06% - 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.08% - 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 -
% change year-on-year -8.77% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 649 862 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 79.83% 83.61% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 434 414 343
10th Percentile £27,500 £34,160 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £45,830 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +0.72%

Chemistry
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Chemistry job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Chemistry
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Chemistry.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Chemistry

Chemistry
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Chemistry within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 33 £65,000 - 2
Chemistry
East of England

Chemistry
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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