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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 548 463
Rank change year-on-year +63 -85 -195
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 90 212 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.30% 0.52%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.67% 0.88% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 95 119
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,125 £31,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £47,500 £64,470
% change year-on-year +23.68% -26.32% +12.12%

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 13,377 24,141 25,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.70% 33.81% 42.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,110 15,209 11,122
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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 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 17 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 17 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 +19 30 £55,000 +37.50% 55
South East +42 25 £35,000 -12.50% 82
North West -4 18 £75,000 +30.43% 35
East of England +30 15 £50,000 -9.09% 55
Yorkshire +46 12 £32,500 -3.70% 16
Scotland +109 7 £52,500 -12.50% 13
South West +106 5 £46,250 +5.71% 12
Northern Ireland +45 5 £55,000 -8.33% 6
West Midlands +54 3 £75,000 +20.00% 16
Midlands +37 3 £75,000 +20.00% 24
Wales +38 1 - - 3
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 10 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.78%) nginx
3 5 (5.56%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.22%) Apache
4 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Payroll
1 2 (2.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.11%) Primavera
2 1 (1.11%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.11%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.11%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) Azure
2 15 (16.67%) AWS
2 15 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.22%) OCI
6 2 (2.22%) SaaS
6 2 (2.22%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) RS-485
2 3 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.22%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.22%) FTP
3 2 (2.22%) HTTP
3 2 (2.22%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (2.22%) RS-232
3 2 (2.22%) SSH
3 2 (2.22%) SSL
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) Firewall
4 1 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.44%) Power BI
3 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.22%) MySQL
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.11%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.11%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) 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 4 (4.44%) Git
4 3 (3.33%) JIRA
5 2 (2.22%) GitLab
6 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 19 (21.11%) Finance
5 13 (14.44%) Law
6 11 (12.22%) Legal
6 11 (12.22%) Pharmaceutical
7 10 (11.11%) Electronics
7 10 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (6.67%) Marketing
10 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
11 3 (3.33%) Automotive
12 2 (2.22%) Banking
12 2 (2.22%) Health Technology
13 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Senior
2 13 (14.44%) Project Manager
3 11 (12.22%) Lead
4 6 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Developer
5 5 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) Senior Hardware Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Consultant
6 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Electronics Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Product Manager
6 4 (4.44%) Senior Electronics Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Analyst
7 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Digital Product Manager
7 3 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) Spring
2 6 (6.67%) .NET
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%) PySpark
6 2 (2.22%) EDI
6 2 (2.22%) Loki
6 2 (2.22%) React
6 2 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) FPGA
2 5 (5.56%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (5.56%) VHDL
3 4 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.44%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.44%) SCADA
3 4 (4.44%) Verilog
4 3 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Genomics
5 2 (2.22%) IoT
5 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) Blog
6 1 (1.11%) FMCG
6 1 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 4 (4.44%) Linux
2 4 (4.44%) Windows 10
2 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.22%) AIX
3 2 (2.22%) CentOS
3 2 (2.22%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (31.11%) Project Management
3 16 (17.78%) Roadmaps
4 14 (15.56%) DevOps
5 13 (14.44%) Computer Science
6 11 (12.22%) Project Delivery
7 10 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 10 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.11%) Quality Management
8 9 (10.00%) Biotechnology
8 9 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 8 (8.89%) Analytics
9 8 (8.89%) CAD
9 8 (8.89%) Prototyping
10 7 (7.78%) Business Case
10 7 (7.78%) Software Engineering
10 7 (7.78%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (7.78%) Validation
11 6 (6.67%) Signal Processing
11 6 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.44%) Python
2 15 (16.67%) Java
3 14 (15.56%) C++
4 13 (14.44%) C
5 9 (10.00%) SQL
6 8 (8.89%) C#
7 3 (3.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.22%) AWK
8 2 (2.22%) Bicep
8 2 (2.22%) Korn
8 2 (2.22%) Perl
8 2 (2.22%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (31.11%) Degree
2 8 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.22%) PMP
4 2 (2.22%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) MBA
5 1 (1.11%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 5 (5.56%) GDPR
2 5 (5.56%) Good Clinical Practice
3 4 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.44%) GMP
4 3 (3.33%) GLP
5 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
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%) GxP
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 10 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.78%) Docker
2 7 (7.78%) Firmware
3 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (2.22%) KVM
4 2 (2.22%) Postfix
4 2 (2.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.89%) Terraform
2 5 (5.56%) Ansible
2 5 (5.56%) Kustomize
2 5 (5.56%) Packer
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.22%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) Nagios
4 2 (2.22%) Nessus
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) EMC
3 7 (7.78%) Red Hat
4 6 (6.67%) Oracle
5 4 (4.44%) IBM
5 4 (4.44%) Rockwell
5 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.44%) Siemens
5 4 (4.44%) VMware
6 3 (3.33%) Google
6 3 (3.33%) Hitachi
6 3 (3.33%) SAP
7 2 (2.22%) Tenable
8 1 (1.11%) Databricks
8 1 (1.11%) Informatica
8 1 (1.11%) Instagram
8 1 (1.11%) Twitter