Biology Jobs in England

Biology
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Biology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Biology over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 821 797
Rank change year-on-year +244 -24 -127
Permanent jobs citing Biology 102 29 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.032% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.038% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 27
10th Percentile £27,150 £35,690 -
25th Percentile £28,500 £37,169 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £57,843 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.14% +10.18% -10.64%
75th Percentile £34,742 £80,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £114,000 - £135,000
UK median annual salary £30,000 £60,000 £50,882
% change year-on-year -50.00% +17.92% -13.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Biology
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Biology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Biology in England

Biology
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Biology in England.

Salary trend for Biology in England

Biology
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biology in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Biology in England

Biology
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biology within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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
Midlands +98 34 £30,000 -50.00% 9
South East +89 20 - - 14
North of England +57 20 - - 5
West Midlands +72 17 £30,000 -50.00% 6
East Midlands - 17 - - 3
London +104 16 £29,000 -47.92% 64
Yorkshire - 15 - - 2
East of England +61 12 - - 20
North West +5 4 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 1
Biology
UK

Biology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (1.96%) Apache
1 2 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (15.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.71%) AWS
2 9 (8.82%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (2.94%) GCP
4 2 (1.96%) Azure
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.98%) Slack
5 1 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.98%) MySQL
2 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Git
1 1 (0.98%) GitLab
1 1 (0.98%) JIRA
General
1 63 (61.76%) Manufacturing
2 49 (48.04%) Retail
3 12 (11.76%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.78%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.92%) Electronics
6 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Law
8 1 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (63.73%) Trainer
2 14 (13.73%) Biostatistician
3 6 (5.88%) Analyst
3 6 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 6 (5.88%) Graduate
3 6 (5.88%) Support Analyst
4 3 (2.94%) Developer
4 3 (2.94%) Software Developer
5 2 (1.96%) Consultant
5 2 (1.96%) Graduate Consultant
5 2 (1.96%) Graduate Product Manager
5 2 (1.96%) Lecturer
5 2 (1.96%) Product Consultant
5 2 (1.96%) Product Manager
5 2 (1.96%) Senior
5 2 (1.96%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) PyTorch
1 11 (10.78%) scikit-learn
1 11 (10.78%) TensorFlow
2 9 (8.82%) Keras
2 9 (8.82%) NumPy
3 2 (1.96%) CSS
3 2 (1.96%) HTML
4 1 (0.98%) Django
4 1 (0.98%) Flask
4 1 (0.98%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (0.98%) React
Miscellaneous
1 49 (48.04%) Robotics
2 20 (19.61%) Molecular Biology
3 13 (12.75%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.96%) Genomics
6 2 (1.96%) LIMS
7 1 (0.98%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (0.98%) CRISPR
7 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Life Science
7 1 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.94%) Debian
1 3 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (92.16%) Artificial Intelligence
2 68 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 53 (51.96%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (48.04%) Data Privacy
4 49 (48.04%) Generative AI
4 49 (48.04%) LLM
4 49 (48.04%) Red Team
5 28 (27.45%) Physics
6 21 (20.59%) Mathematics
7 18 (17.65%) Biochemistry
7 18 (17.65%) Biotechnology
7 18 (17.65%) Chemistry
8 17 (16.67%) Data Interpretation
9 16 (15.69%) Bioinformatics
9 16 (15.69%) Computer Science
9 16 (15.69%) Conversational UI
9 16 (15.69%) Experimental Design
10 15 (14.71%) Analytics
10 15 (14.71%) Data Analytics
11 14 (13.73%) Biostatistics
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.61%) Python
2 8 (7.84%) SQL
3 6 (5.88%) C#
4 3 (2.94%) Java
4 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.96%) C
5 2 (1.96%) R
6 1 (0.98%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) Go
6 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 95 (93.14%) Degree
2 37 (36.27%) PhD
3 22 (21.57%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.90%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.98%) GMP
1 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 55 (53.92%) Google
2 49 (48.04%) Adobe
2 49 (48.04%) Databricks
3 16 (15.69%) PayPal
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) Facebook
5 1 (0.98%) Sawtooth Software
5 1 (0.98%) YouTube