Life Science Jobs in Manchester

Life Sciences
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 207 221
Rank change year-on-year +56 +14 +23
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 11 12 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.50% 0.22% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.08% 0.67% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 17
10th Percentile £44,000 - £48,750
25th Percentile £52,875 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £103,750 £105,050
North West median annual salary £55,750 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% -12.50% +33.33%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,020 1,798 2,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 46.11% 33.03% 43.85%
Number of salaries quoted 525 1,274 997
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.09% +5.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,968 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £82,500 £84,700
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in Manchester

Life Science
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Life Science in Manchester

Life Science
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Life Science in Manchester

Life Science
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 30 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
Stockport +13 4 £65,750 +14.35% 20
Life Science
North West

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (18.18%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (9.09%) SAP APO
1 1 (9.09%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (27.27%) Automotive
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Law
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (9.09%) Bootstrap
2 1 (9.09%) Django
2 1 (9.09%) jQuery
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Servlets
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Analytics
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Digital Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Biomedicine
3 2 (18.18%) Business Development
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Hitachi
2 2 (18.18%) IBM
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) SAP