Life Science Job Trends in Macclesfield

Life Sciences
Cheshire > Macclesfield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in Macclesfield. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Macclesfield 1.89% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £55,000 £36,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +52.78% -20.00% -20.00%

All Generic Skills
Macclesfield

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 Macclesfield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9 3 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Macclesfield 16.98% 17.65% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £59,750 - -
25th Percentile £63,125 - £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £31,000
75th Percentile £75,625 - £33,000
90th Percentile £78,250 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Macclesfield

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Life Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Macclesfield.

Life Science job vacancy trend in Macclesfield

Life Science
Salary Trend in Macclesfield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Macclesfield citing Life Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Macclesfield citing Life Science

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Macclesfield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Sales Enablement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks