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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 435 301
Rank change year-on-year -17 -134 +71
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 382 472 2,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.66% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.60% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 109 177 223
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £41,301
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,500 £48,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £76,875
90th Percentile £98,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% -13.39% +17.05%

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 25,806 29,571 69,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.93% 41.60% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 16,283 18,664 32,310
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,408 £34,506
25th Percentile £40,523 £46,570 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,124 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.66% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +153 197 £57,500 -7.26% 39
South East +16 83 £40,000 -27.27% 17
North of England -35 36 £45,000 -2.70% 27
Midlands -137 25 £97,500 +77.27% 2
East of England -2 24 £67,500 +68.75% 12
North West -12 22 £47,500 -18.10% 19
East Midlands -113 20 - -
Yorkshire +17 13 £40,000 -5.88% 7
South West 0 11 £45,000 -6.25% 4
West Midlands -29 5 £97,500 +63.18% 2
North East -11 1 £62,500 +1.63% 1
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 12 (3.14%) Documentum
2 6 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.52%) nginx
3 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (3.93%) TrackWise
2 7 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.05%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.05%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.05%) SAP Payroll
4 3 (0.79%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 28 (7.33%) AWS
2 16 (4.19%) Azure
3 15 (3.93%) Snowflake
4 14 (3.66%) OCI
5 7 (1.83%) GitHub
5 7 (1.83%) SaaS
6 6 (1.57%) IaaS
7 4 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.05%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (0.52%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.26%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.26%) Figma
9 1 (0.26%) GCP
9 1 (0.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.52%) Firewall
1 2 (0.52%) LAN
1 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
1 2 (0.52%) WAN
1 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.26%) Network Security
2 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.45%) Tableau
3 5 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.05%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (1.05%) MySQL
4 4 (1.05%) Power BI
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.79%) SQLite
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.52%) Metadata
7 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.26%) Big Data
7 1 (0.26%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
1 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
1 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (0.52%) JUnit
1 2 (0.52%) Maven
1 2 (0.52%) Mockito
1 2 (0.52%) Postman
1 2 (0.52%) Selenium
1 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
1 2 (0.52%) TestNG
2 1 (0.26%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.26%) Terragrunt
General
1 190 (49.74%) Social Skills
2 153 (40.05%) Pharmaceutical
3 114 (29.84%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (15.45%) Manufacturing
5 58 (15.18%) Marketing
6 50 (13.09%) Finance
7 49 (12.83%) Law
8 30 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (7.33%) Presentation Skills
10 22 (5.76%) Retail
11 19 (4.97%) Legal
12 8 (2.09%) Humanities
12 8 (2.09%) Social Science
13 7 (1.83%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.31%) Billing
15 4 (1.05%) Danish Language
15 4 (1.05%) French Language
15 4 (1.05%) German Language
15 4 (1.05%) Public Sector
15 4 (1.05%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 82 (21.47%) Senior
2 76 (19.90%) Analyst
3 30 (7.85%) QA Manager
4 26 (6.81%) Project Manager
5 24 (6.28%) Developer
6 22 (5.76%) Lead
7 21 (5.50%) Data Scientist
7 21 (5.50%) Senior Data Scientist
8 18 (4.71%) Research Analyst
9 16 (4.19%) Auditor
10 15 (3.93%) Project Leader
10 15 (3.93%) Senior Project Leader
11 14 (3.66%) IT Manager
11 14 (3.66%) Senior Manager
12 13 (3.40%) Development Manager
12 13 (3.40%) Systems Manager
13 12 (3.14%) Data Integrity Manager
14 11 (2.88%) QA Specialist
14 11 (2.88%) Validation Specialist
15 10 (2.62%) Research Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.28%) CSS
1 24 (6.28%) HTML
2 9 (2.36%) React
3 6 (1.57%) .NET
4 5 (1.31%) .NET Core
4 5 (1.31%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.31%) EDI
5 4 (1.05%) .NET Framework
5 4 (1.05%) Entity Framework
5 4 (1.05%) Spring
6 2 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.52%) Gherkin
6 2 (0.52%) Guice
6 2 (0.52%) JAX-RS
6 2 (0.52%) Kafka
6 2 (0.52%) Mustache
6 2 (0.52%) OpenAPI
6 2 (0.52%) REST
6 2 (0.52%) RESTful
6 2 (0.52%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.04%) Algorithms
2 15 (3.93%) LIMS
3 14 (3.66%) Biopharmaceutical
3 14 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.88%) Pharmacovigilance
5 7 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.31%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.79%) Learning Management System
10 2 (0.52%) NHS
10 2 (0.52%) Robotics
11 1 (0.26%) Device Driver
11 1 (0.26%) Graphic Design
11 1 (0.26%) PDA
11 1 (0.26%) Photography
11 1 (0.26%) PMI
11 1 (0.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.14%) Windows
2 8 (2.09%) Linux
3 5 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (20.94%) Analytics
3 74 (19.37%) Biotechnology
4 64 (16.75%) Quality Management
5 63 (16.49%) Data Science
6 61 (15.97%) QMS
7 59 (15.45%) Computer Science
7 59 (15.45%) Software Engineering
8 54 (14.14%) Informatics
9 51 (13.35%) Process Improvement
9 51 (13.35%) Visualisation
10 50 (13.09%) Project Management
11 48 (12.57%) Data Modelling
12 47 (12.30%) Statistics
12 47 (12.30%) Validation
13 46 (12.04%) Analytical Thinking
13 46 (12.04%) Data Visualisation
14 45 (11.78%) Business Analytics
15 32 (8.38%) Neuroscience
16 30 (7.85%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (7.85%) SQL
2 24 (6.28%) JavaScript
3 15 (3.93%) T-SQL
4 11 (2.88%) Python
5 10 (2.62%) C#
6 7 (1.83%) Java
7 6 (1.57%) Bash
7 6 (1.57%) Ruby
8 4 (1.05%) Delphi
9 3 (0.79%) C++
9 3 (0.79%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 195 (51.05%) Degree
2 55 (14.40%) PhD
3 48 (12.57%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.05%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.79%) PMP
6 3 (0.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (24.87%) QA
2 68 (17.80%) Good Clinical Practice
3 30 (7.85%) GLP
4 26 (6.81%) GMP
5 15 (3.93%) SLA
6 12 (3.14%) GxP
7 5 (1.31%) GAMP
8 4 (1.05%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.26%) GDPR
10 1 (0.26%) GRC
10 1 (0.26%) ITGC
10 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (0.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.79%) Terraform
2 2 (0.52%) Ansible
2 2 (0.52%) Kustomize
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 41 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.24%) Oracle
3 14 (3.66%) SAP
4 8 (2.09%) QAD
5 4 (1.05%) F5
6 3 (0.79%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.52%) Blue Prism
7 2 (0.52%) Cisco
7 2 (0.52%) IONA
7 2 (0.52%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.52%) VMware
8 1 (0.26%) Adobe
8 1 (0.26%) Databricks
8 1 (0.26%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.26%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.26%) Meraki