Life Science Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Life Sciences
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 158 153
Rank change year-on-year +76 -5 +27
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 94 4 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.94% 0.15% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.53% 0.43% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 9
10th Percentile - - £35,750
25th Percentile £35,000 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.41%
75th Percentile £61,875 - £55,109
90th Percentile £68,750 - -
South East median annual salary £40,000 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -42.86% +40.00% -6.98%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,248 922 2,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.72% 33.95% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 742 489 1,449
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Life Science job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Life Science
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Life Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Life Science

Life Science
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Life Science in the Thames Valley

Life Science
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
Berkshire +78 88 £45,000 - 3
Oxfordshire 0 6 £67,500 - 2
Life Science
South East

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (3.19%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.45%) AWS
2 6 (6.38%) Azure
3 5 (5.32%) Miro
4 3 (3.19%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (3.19%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.19%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (3.19%) Benchling
4 3 (3.19%) Serverless
4 3 (3.19%) Veeva
5 2 (2.13%) GCP
5 2 (2.13%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) MQTT
1 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.06%) DHCP
2 1 (1.06%) DNS
2 1 (1.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) Metadata
2 5 (5.32%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.19%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) MLflow
2 5 (5.32%) JIRA
3 3 (3.19%) Git
3 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 31 (32.98%) Pharmaceutical
2 28 (29.79%) Social Skills
3 25 (26.60%) Finance
4 9 (9.57%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.38%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.32%) Aerospace
6 5 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (38.30%) Lead
2 22 (23.40%) Senior
3 15 (15.96%) Associate Director
3 15 (15.96%) Senior Manager
4 14 (14.89%) Development Manager
5 11 (11.70%) Business Development Manager
5 11 (11.70%) Business Manager
6 6 (6.38%) Technical Development Manager
6 6 (6.38%) Technical Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (4.26%) Senior Analytics Manager
8 3 (3.19%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.19%) Senior Development Manager
9 2 (2.13%) Development Team Leader
9 2 (2.13%) Software Development Team Leader
9 2 (2.13%) Software Team Leader
9 2 (2.13%) Team Leader
10 1 (1.06%) Java Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) FHIR
2 3 (3.19%) Keras
2 3 (3.19%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.19%) scikit-learn
2 3 (3.19%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.13%) .NET
3 2 (2.13%) Middleware
3 2 (2.13%) REST
3 2 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Hackathon
1 11 (11.70%) Low-Code
2 10 (10.64%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.38%) LIMS
4 5 (5.32%) Pharmacovigilance
5 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.26%) Omics
6 3 (3.19%) Animation
6 3 (3.19%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.19%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (72.34%) Hematology
1 68 (72.34%) Immunology
2 60 (63.83%) Data Science
3 58 (61.70%) Agile
4 48 (51.06%) AI
5 47 (50.00%) Analytics
6 46 (48.94%) Computer Science
6 46 (48.94%) Machine Learning
7 38 (40.43%) Biotechnology
8 34 (36.17%) Use Case
9 31 (32.98%) Deployment Automation
10 27 (28.72%) Roadmaps
11 20 (21.28%) Generative AI
12 19 (20.21%) Digital Twin
12 19 (20.21%) Disruptive Innovation
12 19 (20.21%) Enterprise Architecture
12 19 (20.21%) Intelligent Automation
12 19 (20.21%) Thought Leadership
12 19 (20.21%) Validation
13 18 (19.15%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.40%) Python
2 3 (3.19%) C++
3 2 (2.13%) C#
3 2 (2.13%) Java
3 2 (2.13%) SQL
4 1 (1.06%) Bash
4 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 82 (87.23%) Degree
2 54 (57.45%) Master's Degree
3 23 (24.47%) PhD
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (26.60%) GxP
2 23 (24.47%) Accessibility
3 7 (7.45%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.32%) QA
5 4 (4.26%) CDISC
5 4 (4.26%) HL7
6 2 (2.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.32%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.26%) Ansible
3 3 (3.19%) Kubeflow
4 2 (2.13%) Terraform
5 1 (1.06%) Grafana
5 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (3.19%) LabVantage
2 2 (2.13%) Agilent
2 2 (2.13%) Google
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (1.06%) Databricks
3 1 (1.06%) VMware