Life Science Jobs in England

Life Sciences
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 516 504
Rank change year-on-year +40 -12 -188
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 175 326 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.38% 0.38% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.09% 1.10% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 61 129 231
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,498 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,200 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £45,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -30.77% +14.04%
75th Percentile £93,750 £63,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £85,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +13.54%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,037 29,755 40,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.82% 34.92% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,791 20,890 21,646
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £98,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Life Science in England

Life Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Life Science in England

Life Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +64 91 £82,500 +22.22% 264
South East +90 36 £50,000 +25.00% 96
North of England +56 27 £56,500 +41.25% 55
North West +27 18 £75,000 +42.86% 34
East of England +38 14 £50,000 +25.00% 52
Yorkshire +56 9 £33,750 +3.85% 18
South West +95 4 £32,500 -23.53% 22
Midlands +60 2 £87,500 +40.00% 35
West Midlands +47 2 £87,500 +40.00% 23
Life Science
UK

Life Science
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 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.86%) nginx
3 3 (1.71%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) TrackWise
2 3 (1.71%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.57%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.57%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.43%) Azure
2 19 (10.86%) AWS
3 10 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.86%) GCP
6 4 (2.29%) GitHub
6 4 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.29%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.71%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (1.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (1.71%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (1.71%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.71%) OCI
7 3 (1.71%) SaaS
8 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.14%) Veeva
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.57%) Miro
9 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.86%) RS-485
2 3 (1.71%) DNS
2 3 (1.71%) Firewall
2 3 (1.71%) Network Security
3 2 (1.14%) FTP
3 2 (1.14%) HTTP
3 2 (1.14%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.14%) SSH
3 2 (1.14%) SSL
4 1 (0.57%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
1 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (1.14%) MySQL
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (0.57%) Big Data
4 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.29%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.71%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.71%) JIRA
3 3 (1.71%) JUnit
3 3 (1.71%) Maven
3 3 (1.71%) Mockito
3 3 (1.71%) Postman
3 3 (1.71%) Selenium
3 3 (1.71%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.71%) TestNG
4 1 (0.57%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.57%) GitLab
4 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (54.86%) Social Skills
2 46 (26.29%) Pharmaceutical
3 39 (22.29%) Manufacturing
4 34 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.43%) Finance
6 14 (8.00%) Law
7 13 (7.43%) Electronics
7 13 (7.43%) Legal
8 11 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.00%) Public Sector
10 6 (3.43%) Marketing
10 6 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.86%) Automotive
11 5 (2.86%) Health Technology
11 5 (2.86%) Retail
12 3 (1.71%) Banking
12 3 (1.71%) Games
13 2 (1.14%) Brand Awareness
13 2 (1.14%) French Language
Job Titles
1 34 (19.43%) Senior
2 31 (17.71%) Consultant
3 24 (13.71%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 24 (13.71%) Security Consultant
4 21 (12.00%) Managing Consultant
5 17 (9.71%) Project Manager
6 13 (7.43%) Lead
7 8 (4.57%) Analyst
7 8 (4.57%) Data Scientist
7 8 (4.57%) Senior Data Scientist
8 7 (4.00%) Hardware Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) Senior Hardware Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Developer
9 6 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Senior Manager
10 5 (2.86%) Business Development Manager
10 5 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.86%) QA Officer
10 5 (2.86%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.57%) .NET
2 6 (3.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.86%) Django
3 5 (2.86%) React
4 4 (2.29%) RESTful
4 4 (2.29%) Spring
5 3 (1.71%) EDI
5 3 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.71%) Gherkin
5 3 (1.71%) Guice
5 3 (1.71%) JAX-RS
5 3 (1.71%) Kafka
5 3 (1.71%) Mustache
5 3 (1.71%) PySpark
5 3 (1.71%) REST
5 3 (1.71%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.71%) Swagger
5 3 (1.71%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.71%) WireMock
5 3 (1.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.57%) Algorithms
2 11 (6.29%) FPGA
3 7 (4.00%) Analogue Electronics
3 7 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.43%) VHDL
5 5 (2.86%) Pharmacovigilance
5 5 (2.86%) Verilog
6 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.29%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.29%) SCADA
7 3 (1.71%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (1.71%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (1.71%) NHS
7 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.71%) Virtual Reality
8 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.29%) Windows
1 4 (2.29%) Windows 10
1 4 (2.29%) Windows Server
2 3 (1.71%) Linux
2 3 (1.71%) Unix
3 2 (1.14%) AIX
3 2 (1.14%) CentOS
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (25.14%) Biotechnology
2 36 (20.57%) Project Management
3 35 (20.00%) Business Development
4 34 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (17.14%) Computer Science
6 27 (15.43%) Regulatory Compliance
7 26 (14.86%) Analytics
8 25 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (13.71%) Software Engineering
10 21 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (12.00%) Roadmaps
10 21 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (11.43%) Data Science
12 19 (10.86%) Quality Management
13 18 (10.29%) Data Modelling
13 18 (10.29%) Process Improvement
14 17 (9.71%) DevOps
14 17 (9.71%) Informatics
15 16 (9.14%) Data Visualisation
15 16 (9.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.71%) Python
2 14 (8.00%) C
2 14 (8.00%) Java
3 13 (7.43%) C++
4 10 (5.71%) SQL
5 9 (5.14%) C#
6 4 (2.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.71%) Bicep
8 2 (1.14%) AWK
8 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.14%) Korn
8 2 (1.14%) Perl
8 2 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (0.57%) Go
9 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (35.43%) Degree
2 21 (12.00%) CISM
2 21 (12.00%) CISSP
2 21 (12.00%) Master's Degree
3 18 (10.29%) PhD
4 8 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.71%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.57%) QA
2 22 (12.57%) GMP
3 12 (6.86%) Good Clinical Practice
4 5 (2.86%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (2.29%) GDPR
6 3 (1.71%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.71%) GLP
7 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.14%) IEC 62304
7 2 (1.14%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.57%) GxP
8 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (4.57%) Docker
2 7 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.00%) Firmware
3 4 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.14%) KVM
4 2 (1.14%) Postfix
4 2 (1.14%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 7 (4.00%) Terraform
2 4 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.71%) Ansible
3 3 (1.71%) Kustomize
3 3 (1.71%) Packer
4 2 (1.14%) Grafana
4 2 (1.14%) Nagios
4 2 (1.14%) Nessus
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.71%) EMC
3 9 (5.14%) Oracle
4 5 (2.86%) Hitachi
4 5 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.29%) Databricks
5 4 (2.29%) IBM
5 4 (2.29%) Rockwell
5 4 (2.29%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.29%) SAP
5 4 (2.29%) Siemens
5 4 (2.29%) VMware
6 2 (1.14%) Google
6 2 (1.14%) Tenable