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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 164 201
Rank change year-on-year +82 +37 -29
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 90 4 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.62% 0.13% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.71% 0.36% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 17 0 18
10th Percentile - - £28,498
25th Percentile £35,000 - £30,981
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.13%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £52,500
90th Percentile £90,000 - £55,109
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +25.00% -21.95%

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 1,341 1,108 2,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.08% 36.64% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 817 529 1,520
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,449 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,875
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +14.88% -12.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £78,000 £85,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,001 £52,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -10.91%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 81 £45,000 -
Oxfordshire 0 9 £90,000 - 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 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.78%) Azure
2 6 (6.67%) AWS
3 5 (5.56%) Miro
4 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
4 3 (3.33%) Benchling
4 3 (3.33%) Veeva
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.22%) GCP
5 2 (2.22%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) DHCP
1 2 (2.22%) DNS
1 2 (2.22%) Firewall
1 2 (2.22%) MQTT
1 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) Metadata
2 3 (3.33%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) JIRA
2 4 (4.44%) MLflow
3 3 (3.33%) Git
4 2 (2.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (34.44%) Pharmaceutical
2 27 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.67%) Finance
4 9 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Lead
2 20 (22.22%) Senior
3 17 (18.89%) Development Manager
4 15 (16.67%) Associate Director
4 15 (16.67%) Senior Manager
5 14 (15.56%) Business Development Manager
5 14 (15.56%) Business Manager
6 6 (6.67%) Technical Development Manager
6 6 (6.67%) Technical Manager
7 4 (4.44%) Analytics Manager
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Analytics Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.33%) Senior Development Manager
9 2 (2.22%) Development Team Leader
9 2 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.22%) Software Development Team Leader
9 2 (2.22%) Software Team Leader
9 2 (2.22%) Team Leader
10 1 (1.11%) Java Team Leader
10 1 (1.11%) Research Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) Keras
1 3 (3.33%) scikit-learn
1 3 (3.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (2.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.22%) Middleware
2 2 (2.22%) REST
2 2 (2.22%) SOAP
3 1 (1.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Hackathon
1 11 (12.22%) Low-Code
2 10 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.67%) LIMS
3 6 (6.67%) Pharmacovigilance
4 4 (4.44%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.33%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.22%) Operational Technology
6 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.11%) Animation
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (64.44%) Hematology
1 58 (64.44%) Immunology
2 56 (62.22%) Agile
3 53 (58.89%) Data Science
4 39 (43.33%) AI
4 39 (43.33%) Analytics
4 39 (43.33%) Computer Science
5 38 (42.22%) Biotechnology
6 37 (41.11%) Machine Learning
7 30 (33.33%) Use Case
8 28 (31.11%) Deployment Automation
9 24 (26.67%) Roadmaps
10 19 (21.11%) Change Management
10 19 (21.11%) Validation
11 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (17.78%) Generative AI
12 16 (17.78%) MLOps
13 15 (16.67%) Digital Twin
13 15 (16.67%) Intelligent Automation
13 15 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) Python
2 2 (2.22%) Bash
2 2 (2.22%) C#
2 2 (2.22%) Java
2 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.22%) SQL
3 1 (1.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 74 (82.22%) Degree
2 46 (51.11%) Master's Degree
3 15 (16.67%) PhD
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (24.44%) Accessibility
2 20 (22.22%) GxP
3 9 (10.00%) QA
4 7 (7.78%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.33%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (2.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (6.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.33%) Ansible
2 3 (3.33%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Grafana
3 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.11%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 3 (3.33%) LabVantage
2 2 (2.22%) Agilent
2 2 (2.22%) Google
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle
2 2 (2.22%) VMware
3 1 (1.11%) Databricks