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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 375 256
Rank change year-on-year -140 -119 +24
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 193 350 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.73% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.95% 1.82% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 82 117 91
10th Percentile £28,927 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £41,331
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +4.64% +16.68%
75th Percentile £65,766 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,550 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% -13.39% +17.05%

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 20,220 19,230 34,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.98% 39.94% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,541 10,409 17,070
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,970
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
South East +16 83 £40,000 -27.27% 17
North of England -35 36 £45,000 -2.70% 27
Midlands -137 25 £97,500 +77.27% 2
East of England -2 24 £67,500 +68.75% 12
North West -12 22 £47,500 -18.10% 19
East Midlands -113 20 - -
Yorkshire +17 13 £40,000 -5.88% 7
South West 0 11 £45,000 -6.25% 4
Scotland -47 8 £60,000 +3.90% 1
Wales - 6 £65,766 - 2
West Midlands -29 5 £97,500 +63.18% 2
North East -11 1 £62,500 +1.63% 1
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 12 (6.22%) Documentum
2 6 (3.11%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.52%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (7.77%) TrackWise
2 4 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.04%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.04%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.04%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.04%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.88%) AWS
2 16 (8.29%) Azure
3 8 (4.15%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.11%) GitHub
4 6 (3.11%) IaaS
4 6 (3.11%) OCI
5 5 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.07%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.07%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.55%) Figma
7 3 (1.55%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.04%) SaaS
8 2 (1.04%) Serverless
9 1 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.52%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) DHCP
1 1 (0.52%) DNS
1 1 (0.52%) Firewall
1 1 (0.52%) LAN
1 1 (0.52%) VPN
1 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.15%) Power BI
2 4 (2.07%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.55%) Big Data
3 3 (1.55%) Tableau
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.52%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Axure RP
General
1 82 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.20%) Pharmaceutical
3 30 (15.54%) Manufacturing
4 27 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (13.47%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (10.88%) Finance
7 20 (10.36%) Law
8 17 (8.81%) Marketing
9 9 (4.66%) Retail
10 7 (3.63%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.07%) Legal
11 4 (2.07%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.04%) Billing
12 2 (1.04%) Games
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Electronics
13 1 (0.52%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.52%) Publishing
13 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (14.51%) Analyst
2 22 (11.40%) Developer
2 22 (11.40%) Project Manager
3 21 (10.88%) Lead
4 19 (9.84%) Senior
5 18 (9.33%) Research Analyst
6 15 (7.77%) Project Leader
6 15 (7.77%) Senior Project Leader
7 14 (7.25%) IT Manager
8 13 (6.74%) Systems Manager
9 12 (6.22%) Data Integrity Manager
9 12 (6.22%) QA Manager
10 10 (5.18%) QA Specialist
10 10 (5.18%) Validation Specialist
11 9 (4.66%) Associate Director
12 8 (4.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 8 (4.15%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.63%) IT Support
13 7 (3.63%) Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.11%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.15%) CSS
1 8 (4.15%) HTML
1 8 (4.15%) React
2 5 (2.59%) EDI
3 4 (2.07%) .NET
3 4 (2.07%) .NET Core
3 4 (2.07%) .NET Framework
3 4 (2.07%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.07%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.04%) D3.js
4 2 (1.04%) Spring
5 1 (0.52%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.22%) LIMS
2 11 (5.70%) Pharmacovigilance
3 9 (4.66%) Biopharmaceutical
4 5 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.07%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.07%) Genomics
5 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.07%) NHS
6 3 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.04%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.52%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) PDA
8 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.15%) Linux
2 7 (3.63%) Windows
3 2 (1.04%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Android
4 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.87%) Validation
2 44 (22.80%) Project Management
3 41 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (11.92%) QMS
5 22 (11.40%) Project Delivery
5 22 (11.40%) Workflow
6 21 (10.88%) Data Analysis
7 19 (9.84%) Analytics
7 19 (9.84%) Collaborative Working
8 18 (9.33%) Acceptance Criteria
8 18 (9.33%) Biotechnology
8 18 (9.33%) Chemistry
9 16 (8.29%) Biometrics
9 16 (8.29%) Change Control
9 16 (8.29%) Data Science
9 16 (8.29%) Risk Management
10 15 (7.77%) Business Development
10 15 (7.77%) Data Entry
10 15 (7.77%) Time Management
10 15 (7.77%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.25%) SQL
2 9 (4.66%) C#
2 9 (4.66%) Python
3 8 (4.15%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.11%) Bash
4 6 (3.11%) Ruby
5 4 (2.07%) Delphi
5 4 (2.07%) Java
6 3 (1.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 78 (40.41%) Degree
2 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.55%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.55%) PMP
4 2 (1.04%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (22.28%) Good Clinical Practice
2 40 (20.73%) QA
3 20 (10.36%) GLP
4 15 (7.77%) GMP
5 12 (6.22%) GxP
6 5 (2.59%) GAMP
7 3 (1.55%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.52%) GDPR
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.52%) ITGC
System Software
1 5 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.15%) SAP
3 7 (3.63%) Oracle
4 4 (2.07%) F5
5 2 (1.04%) Apple
5 2 (1.04%) Charles River
5 2 (1.04%) IONA
5 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe
6 1 (0.52%) Databricks
6 1 (0.52%) VMware