Life Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Life Sciences
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 487 538 467
Rank change year-on-year +51 -71 -203
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 90 235 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.32% 0.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.96% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42 97 115
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,599 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,500 £95,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,443 24,459 24,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.14% 32.80% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 15,283 10,904
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Life Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Life Science in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Life Science in the UK excluding London

Life Science
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +33 32 £32,500 -18.75% 351
South East +30 28 £35,000 -12.50% 458
North West +4 19 £55,750 +6.19% 164
Yorkshire +50 13 £32,500 - 145
East of England +22 10 £50,000 -9.09% 252
Scotland +107 6 £42,500 -29.17% 71
South West +99 5 £32,500 -27.78% 180
Northern Ireland +46 5 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Midlands +63 4 £63,750 +2.00% 293
West Midlands +57 4 £63,750 +2.00% 158
Wales +42 1 - - 39
Life Science
UK

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (12.22%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.78%) nginx
3 5 (5.56%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.11%) Primavera
2 1 (1.11%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.11%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.11%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 26 (28.89%) Azure
2 17 (18.89%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (14.44%) AWS
4 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.78%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.22%) OCI
7 2 (2.22%) SaaS
7 2 (2.22%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.11%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (2.22%) RS-485
2 1 (1.11%) DHCP
2 1 (1.11%) DNS
2 1 (1.11%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) Network Security
2 1 (1.11%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) Relational Database
2 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.44%) Power BI
5 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.11%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
1 6 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 5 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 5 (5.56%) JUnit
2 5 (5.56%) Maven
2 5 (5.56%) Mockito
2 5 (5.56%) Postman
2 5 (5.56%) Selenium
2 5 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.56%) TestNG
3 3 (3.33%) JIRA
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 37 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.56%) Manufacturing
3 22 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (24.44%) Finance
4 16 (17.78%) Law
5 12 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (11.11%) Legal
7 7 (7.78%) Electronics
7 7 (7.78%) Marketing
7 7 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (6.67%) Automotive
9 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.33%) Aerospace
11 2 (2.22%) Banking
11 2 (2.22%) Health Technology
11 2 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (14.44%) Senior
2 11 (12.22%) Project Manager
3 10 (11.11%) Lead
4 8 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Analyst
5 6 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Support Analyst
5 6 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Consultant
6 5 (5.56%) Developer
6 5 (5.56%) IT Support
6 5 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) IT Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Technical Support
7 4 (4.44%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Digital Product Manager
8 3 (3.33%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) Spring
2 6 (6.67%) REST
2 6 (6.67%) RESTful
3 5 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (5.56%) Gherkin
3 5 (5.56%) Guice
3 5 (5.56%) JAX-RS
3 5 (5.56%) Kafka
3 5 (5.56%) Mustache
3 5 (5.56%) OpenAPI
3 5 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.56%) Swagger
3 5 (5.56%) WireMock
4 4 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (3.33%) .NET
6 2 (2.22%) PySpark
6 2 (2.22%) React
7 1 (1.11%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Operational Technology
1 6 (6.67%) SCADA
2 4 (4.44%) FPGA
3 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.22%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (2.22%) Blog
4 2 (2.22%) Genomics
4 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.22%) PMI
4 2 (2.22%) Verilog
4 2 (2.22%) VHDL
5 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.11%) FMCG
5 1 (1.11%) IoT
5 1 (1.11%) Social Media
5 1 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
2 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (27.78%) Project Management
3 18 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 15 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 14 (15.56%) Mentoring
6 13 (14.44%) DevOps
7 11 (12.22%) Biotechnology
7 11 (12.22%) Project Delivery
8 10 (11.11%) Quality Management
9 9 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.89%) Agile
10 8 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (8.89%) Validation
11 7 (7.78%) Analytics
11 7 (7.78%) Business Development
12 6 (6.67%) QMS
12 6 (6.67%) Software Engineering
12 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (6.67%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.89%) Python
2 12 (13.33%) Java
3 10 (11.11%) SQL
4 7 (7.78%) C#
5 6 (6.67%) C++
6 5 (5.56%) C
7 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.22%) Bicep
9 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (36.67%) Degree
2 8 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.78%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.33%) PhD
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.22%) PMP
6 2 (2.22%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.11%) MBA
7 1 (1.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) QA
2 6 (6.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 5 (5.56%) GDPR
3 5 (5.56%) GMP
3 5 (5.56%) Good Clinical Practice
4 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.33%) GLP
5 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.22%) GxP
5 2 (2.22%) IEC 62304
5 2 (2.22%) ISO 13485
6 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.11%) GAMP
6 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.11%) ISO 9001
6 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (12.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.67%) Docker
2 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.33%) Firmware
4 1 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Kubernetes
1 7 (7.78%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Ansible
2 5 (5.56%) Kustomize
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.56%) Packer
3 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) Rockwell
2 6 (6.67%) Siemens
3 5 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.44%) Oracle
4 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.44%) VMware
5 3 (3.33%) EMC
5 3 (3.33%) Google
5 3 (3.33%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.22%) IBM
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Databricks
7 1 (1.11%) Informatica
7 1 (1.11%) Instagram
7 1 (1.11%) Twitter