Life Science Jobs in London

Life Sciences
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 448 341
Rank change year-on-year +72 -107 +140
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 133 190 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.53% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.40% 1.14% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 30 109 105
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,438 £51,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -18.18%
75th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,000 £93,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £65,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -30.77% +14.04% -2.98%

All Generic Skills
London

Life Science is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,469 16,657 32,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 40.20% 46.23% 49.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6,743 11,063 15,338
10th Percentile £37,500 £44,512 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £126,250 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Life Science in London

Life Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Central London +109 63 £67,000 +11.67% 7
West London - 7 £75,000 - 7
Life Science
England

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (1.50%) SAS
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.01%) SAP BPC
2 4 (3.01%) SAP CO
2 4 (3.01%) SAP FI
2 4 (3.01%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.75%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.75%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.75%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (15.04%) Snowflake
2 6 (4.51%) AWS
3 5 (3.76%) Azure
4 4 (3.01%) Dagster
4 4 (3.01%) SaaS
5 3 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.26%) Serverless
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.75%) GCP
6 1 (0.75%) GitHub
6 1 (0.75%) PaaS
6 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Firewall
1 2 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.75%) DHCP
2 1 (0.75%) DNS
2 1 (0.75%) LAN
2 1 (0.75%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) SAN
2 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.75%) VLAN
2 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.29%) SQL Server
2 21 (15.79%) Tableau
3 4 (3.01%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.26%) MySQL
4 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.50%) Base SAS
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.50%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.50%) SQLite
6 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.75%) Big Data
6 1 (0.75%) Metadata
6 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Snakemake
2 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 66 (49.62%) Social Skills
2 62 (46.62%) Finance
3 50 (37.59%) Pharmaceutical
4 46 (34.59%) Marketing
5 42 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (17.29%) Retail
7 22 (16.54%) Legal
8 16 (12.03%) Manufacturing
9 12 (9.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (6.77%) Billing
10 9 (6.77%) Law
11 7 (5.26%) French Language
12 6 (4.51%) German Language
12 6 (4.51%) Spanish Language
13 4 (3.01%) Danish Language
13 4 (3.01%) Russian Language
13 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
14 3 (2.26%) Automotive
14 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (1.50%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 40 (30.08%) Senior
2 35 (26.32%) Analyst
3 11 (8.27%) Financial Analyst
4 8 (6.02%) Senior Manager
5 7 (5.26%) Associate Director
6 6 (4.51%) Consultant
7 5 (3.76%) Project Analyst
7 5 (3.76%) QA Manager
7 5 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (3.76%) Senior Financial Analyst
8 4 (3.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.01%) SAP CO Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) SAP FI Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) Senior SAP CO Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) Senior SAP Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) Senior SAP FI Consultant
8 4 (3.01%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.04%) CSS
1 20 (15.04%) HTML
2 4 (3.01%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.75%) FHIR
3 1 (0.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.02%) Algorithms
2 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.51%) Public Cloud
2 6 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.76%) Biopharmaceutical
4 4 (3.01%) Omics
4 4 (3.01%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.26%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.50%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.50%) LIMS
6 2 (1.50%) NHS
6 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.75%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.76%) Windows
2 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.81%) Analytics
2 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (21.05%) Biotechnology
4 24 (18.05%) Business Development
4 24 (18.05%) Data Management
5 20 (15.04%) Machine Learning
6 19 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 19 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 17 (12.78%) Data Science
7 17 (12.78%) Time Management
8 16 (12.03%) Market Surveillance
8 16 (12.03%) Neuroscience
9 15 (11.28%) Quantitative Analysis
10 14 (10.53%) Statistics
11 12 (9.02%) Project Management
12 11 (8.27%) Informatics
13 9 (6.77%) Data Modelling
13 9 (6.77%) Migration
13 9 (6.77%) Process Improvement
13 9 (6.77%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.05%) SQL
2 20 (15.04%) JavaScript
2 20 (15.04%) T-SQL
3 7 (5.26%) Python
4 4 (3.01%) Bash
5 2 (1.50%) Java
5 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.50%) SAS Macro
6 1 (0.75%) Go
6 1 (0.75%) Scala
6 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 95 (71.43%) Degree
2 21 (15.79%) PhD
3 12 (9.02%) Master's Degree
4 11 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.76%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) MCSE
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.04%) SLA
2 6 (4.51%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) GMP
4 2 (1.50%) CDISC
4 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.75%) GDPR
5 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.75%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.77%) SAP
3 5 (3.76%) QAD
4 2 (1.50%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle
4 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.50%) VMware
5 1 (0.75%) Citrix
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.75%) HP
5 1 (0.75%) Juniper
5 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto