Life Science Jobs in County Antrim

Life Sciences
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in County Antrim. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 72 -
Rank change year-on-year +44 - -
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 5 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.56% 0.30% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.02% 1.23% -
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 - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Generic Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 83 162 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in County Antrim 42.56% 24.66% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12 74 115
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,996 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £62,188 £85,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £84,000
Northern Ireland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £51,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +17.07% +7.89%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in County Antrim

Life Science
Salary Trend in County Antrim

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

Salary trend for Life Science in County Antrim

Life Science
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Belfast +33 5 £55,000 -8.33% 22
Life Science
Northern Ireland

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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