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 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 536 515 484
Rank change year-on-year -21 -31 -184
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 157 345 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.40% 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.87% 1.16% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 65 131 229
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,498 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +4.80%
75th Percentile £93,750 £65,000 £82,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £87,500 £103,750
UK median annual salary £58,750 £47,500 £63,485
% change year-on-year +23.68% -25.18% +10.89%

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 18,079 29,798 39,258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.95% 34.76% 43.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,790 20,832 21,122
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
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 £75,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,025 £100,000 £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 15 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 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
London +31 78 £82,500 +26.92% 346
North of England +33 30 £55,000 +37.50% 59
South East +56 25 £35,000 -12.50% 108
North West -4 18 £75,000 +42.86% 39
East of England +25 16 £50,000 +25.00% 65
Yorkshire +49 12 £32,500 -3.70% 16
South West +111 5 £46,250 +8.82% 13
West Midlands +53 2 £87,500 +40.00% 19
Midlands +41 2 £87,500 +40.00% 32
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 9 (5.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.18%) nginx
3 3 (1.91%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.64%) CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.91%) Oracle Payroll
2 2 (1.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.64%) Primavera
3 1 (0.64%) SAP APO
3 1 (0.64%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.64%) SAP LE
3 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.64%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.65%) Azure
2 18 (11.46%) AWS
3 14 (8.92%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.82%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.18%) GCP
6 4 (2.55%) GitHub
6 4 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.55%) OCI
6 4 (2.55%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.55%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (1.91%) SaaS
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.64%) Collibra
8 1 (0.64%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.18%) RS-485
2 3 (1.91%) DNS
3 2 (1.27%) FTP
3 2 (1.27%) HTTP
3 2 (1.27%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.27%) SSH
3 2 (1.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.64%) DHCP
4 1 (0.64%) Firewall
4 1 (0.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (2.55%) Power BI
1 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
1 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.27%) MySQL
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.64%) Big Data
4 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.64%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.64%) Metadata
4 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.55%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) JIRA
3 3 (1.91%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.91%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.91%) JUnit
3 3 (1.91%) Maven
3 3 (1.91%) Mockito
3 3 (1.91%) Postman
3 3 (1.91%) Selenium
3 3 (1.91%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.91%) TestNG
4 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.64%) GitLab
4 1 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 89 (56.69%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (22.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 27 (17.20%) Manufacturing
5 21 (13.38%) Finance
6 19 (12.10%) Law
7 13 (8.28%) Legal
8 11 (7.01%) Electronics
8 11 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (4.46%) Public Sector
10 5 (3.18%) Marketing
10 5 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.18%) Retail
11 3 (1.91%) Automotive
11 3 (1.91%) Banking
11 3 (1.91%) Games
11 3 (1.91%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.64%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (19.75%) Consultant
1 31 (19.75%) Senior
2 24 (15.29%) Cybersecurity Consultant
2 24 (15.29%) Security Consultant
3 21 (13.38%) Managing Consultant
4 16 (10.19%) Lead
5 13 (8.28%) Project Manager
6 11 (7.01%) Analyst
7 8 (5.10%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.10%) Senior Data Scientist
8 6 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (3.82%) Developer
9 5 (3.18%) Electronics Engineer
9 5 (3.18%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (3.18%) Hardware Engineer
9 5 (3.18%) Product Manager
9 5 (3.18%) Senior Electronics Engineer
9 5 (3.18%) Senior Hardware Engineer
9 5 (3.18%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.55%) Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.46%) .NET
2 6 (3.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (3.18%) Django
3 5 (3.18%) React
4 4 (2.55%) RESTful
4 4 (2.55%) Spring
5 3 (1.91%) EDI
5 3 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.91%) Gherkin
5 3 (1.91%) Guice
5 3 (1.91%) JAX-RS
5 3 (1.91%) Kafka
5 3 (1.91%) Mustache
5 3 (1.91%) OpenAPI
5 3 (1.91%) PySpark
5 3 (1.91%) REST
5 3 (1.91%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.91%) Swagger
5 3 (1.91%) WireMock
5 3 (1.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.01%) Algorithms
2 10 (6.37%) FPGA
3 5 (3.18%) Analogue Electronics
3 5 (3.18%) Verilog
3 5 (3.18%) VHDL
4 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.55%) Operational Technology
4 4 (2.55%) SCADA
5 3 (1.91%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.91%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.27%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.27%) Replication
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Windows
2 4 (2.55%) Windows 10
2 4 (2.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.91%) Linux
3 3 (1.91%) Unix
4 2 (1.27%) AIX
4 2 (1.27%) CentOS
4 2 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (22.29%) Biotechnology
3 30 (19.11%) Business Development
3 30 (19.11%) Project Management
4 28 (17.83%) Computer Science
4 28 (17.83%) Regulatory Compliance
5 27 (17.20%) Analytics
6 25 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
7 24 (15.29%) Software Engineering
8 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 20 (12.74%) Data Modelling
9 20 (12.74%) Roadmaps
10 19 (12.10%) Data Science
11 18 (11.46%) Process Improvement
12 17 (10.83%) Informatics
13 16 (10.19%) Analytical Thinking
13 16 (10.19%) Business Analytics
13 16 (10.19%) Data Visualisation
13 16 (10.19%) Statistics
13 16 (10.19%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.56%) Python
2 13 (8.28%) C
2 13 (8.28%) Java
3 12 (7.64%) C++
4 10 (6.37%) SQL
5 8 (5.10%) C#
6 2 (1.27%) AWK
6 2 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.27%) Korn
6 2 (1.27%) Perl
6 2 (1.27%) PHP
6 2 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.64%) Bicep
7 1 (0.64%) Go
7 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (34.39%) Degree
2 21 (13.38%) CISM
2 21 (13.38%) CISSP
2 21 (13.38%) Master's Degree
3 18 (11.46%) PhD
4 6 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.91%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.64%) MBA
7 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.46%) QA
2 11 (7.01%) GMP
3 5 (3.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 5 (3.18%) GDPR
3 5 (3.18%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.91%) GLP
6 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.27%) IEC 62304
6 2 (1.27%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.64%) GxP
7 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (6.37%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.10%) Docker
3 5 (3.18%) Firmware
4 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.27%) KVM
5 2 (1.27%) Postfix
5 2 (1.27%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 5 (3.18%) Terraform
2 4 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.91%) Ansible
3 3 (1.91%) Kustomize
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.91%) Packer
4 2 (1.27%) Grafana
4 2 (1.27%) Nagios
4 2 (1.27%) Nessus
5 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.01%) Oracle
3 9 (5.73%) EMC
4 5 (3.18%) Databricks
4 5 (3.18%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.55%) IBM
5 4 (2.55%) Rockwell
5 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.55%) SAP
5 4 (2.55%) Siemens
5 4 (2.55%) VMware
6 3 (1.91%) Google
6 3 (1.91%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.27%) Tenable
8 1 (0.64%) Informatica
8 1 (0.64%) Instagram
8 1 (0.64%) Twitter