Life Science Jobs in Northern Ireland

Life Sciences
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 30 76 -
Rank change year-on-year +46 - -
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 5 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.95% 0.27% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.81% 1.07% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 104 187 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 40.47% 25.07% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 15 81 120
10th Percentile £44,500 £32,996 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £64,375 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £90,000 £85,000
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 Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in Northern Ireland

Life Science
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Life Science in Northern Ireland

Life Science
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim +42 5 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Life Science
UK

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 5 (100.00%) nginx
1 5 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Maven
1 5 (100.00%) Mockito
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 5 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 5 (100.00%) Guice
1 5 (100.00%) JAX-RS
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Mustache
1 5 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 5 (100.00%) Swagger
1 5 (100.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 5 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 5 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) OO
1 5 (100.00%) OOP
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Kustomize
1 5 (100.00%) Packer
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat