Biotechnology Jobs in the East of England

Biotechnology (Biotech)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Biotechnology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Biotechnology over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 193 196
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Biotechnology 6 33 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.18% 0.54% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.67% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1 23 13
10th Percentile - £34,000 £23,300
25th Percentile £68,750 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +4.76% -34.38%
75th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £61,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +34.78% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Biotechnology 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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,184 4,923 4,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.15% 80.52% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,470 3,695 2,158
10th Percentile £28,113 £25,809 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,230 £65,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £76,000 £76,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Biotechnology
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Biotechnology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Biotechnology in the East of England

Biotechnology
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Biotechnology in the East of England.

Salary trend for Biotechnology in the East of England

Biotechnology
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biotechnology within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
Cambridgeshire +19 6 £72,500 +52.63% 29
Biotechnology
England

Biotechnology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) QA Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (33.33%) LIMS
3 1 (16.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Chemistry
2 3 (50.00%) Biochemistry
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Internal Audit
2 3 (50.00%) Neuroscience
2 3 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (50.00%) Tech Ops
2 3 (50.00%) Time Management
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Biology
3 2 (33.33%) Cheminformatics
3 2 (33.33%) Informatics
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GMP
1 3 (50.00%) GxP
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle