Biology
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Biology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Biology over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 596 875 857
Rank change year-on-year +279 -18 -144
Permanent jobs citing Biology 106 32 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.031% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.037% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16 19 28
10th Percentile £27,375 £35,690 -
25th Percentile £28,500 £43,585 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £50,882
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +17.92% -13.39%
75th Percentile £38,487 £80,000 £110,625
90th Percentile £108,750 £95,000 £135,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £30,000 £60,000 £45,750
% change year-on-year -50.00% +31.15% -8.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biology falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,256 87,133 91,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.58% 84.04% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 25,854 60,896 54,581
10th Percentile £28,822 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%

Biology
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biology in the UK

Biology
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Biology.

Salary trend for Biology in the UK

Biology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biology over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Biology in the UK

Biology
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biology within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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
England +244 102 £30,000 -48.14% 113
UK excluding London +258 88 £30,000 -50.00% 52
Work from Home +194 83 £29,000 -61.33% 48
Midlands +98 34 £30,000 -50.00% 9
South East +89 20 - - 14
North of England +57 20 - - 5
West Midlands +72 17 £30,000 -50.00% 6
East Midlands - 17 - - 3
London +104 16 £29,000 -47.92% 64
Yorkshire - 15 - - 2
East of England +61 12 - - 20
North West +5 4 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Biology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.89%) Apache
1 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (16.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.15%) AWS
2 9 (8.49%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (2.83%) GCP
4 2 (1.89%) Azure
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.94%) Slack
5 1 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.89%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.94%) MySQL
2 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Git
1 1 (0.94%) GitLab
1 1 (0.94%) JIRA
General
1 64 (60.38%) Manufacturing
2 49 (46.23%) Retail
3 13 (12.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.32%) Social Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Electronics
6 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Law
7 2 (1.89%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 67 (63.21%) Trainer
2 14 (13.21%) Biostatistician
3 6 (5.66%) Analyst
3 6 (5.66%) Data Analyst
3 6 (5.66%) Graduate
3 6 (5.66%) Support Analyst
4 4 (3.77%) Developer
5 3 (2.83%) Software Developer
6 2 (1.89%) Consultant
6 2 (1.89%) Graduate Consultant
6 2 (1.89%) Graduate Product Manager
6 2 (1.89%) Lecturer
6 2 (1.89%) Product Consultant
6 2 (1.89%) Product Manager
6 2 (1.89%) Senior
6 2 (1.89%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.38%) PyTorch
1 11 (10.38%) scikit-learn
1 11 (10.38%) TensorFlow
2 9 (8.49%) Keras
2 9 (8.49%) NumPy
3 2 (1.89%) CSS
3 2 (1.89%) HTML
4 1 (0.94%) Django
4 1 (0.94%) Flask
4 1 (0.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (0.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 49 (46.23%) Robotics
2 22 (20.75%) Molecular Biology
3 13 (12.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.83%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.89%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.89%) Genomics
6 2 (1.89%) LIMS
7 1 (0.94%) CRISPR
7 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Life Science
7 1 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Debian
1 3 (2.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (91.51%) Artificial Intelligence
2 69 (65.09%) Machine Learning
3 53 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (46.23%) Data Privacy
4 49 (46.23%) Generative AI
4 49 (46.23%) LLM
4 49 (46.23%) Red Team
5 29 (27.36%) Physics
6 22 (20.75%) Mathematics
7 20 (18.87%) Biochemistry
7 20 (18.87%) Biotechnology
8 19 (17.92%) Chemistry
8 19 (17.92%) Data Interpretation
8 19 (17.92%) Experimental Design
9 18 (16.98%) Conversational UI
10 16 (15.09%) Bioinformatics
10 16 (15.09%) Computer Science
11 15 (14.15%) Analytics
11 15 (14.15%) Data Analytics
12 14 (13.21%) Biostatistics
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.81%) Python
2 8 (7.55%) SQL
3 6 (5.66%) C#
4 3 (2.83%) Java
4 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.89%) C
5 2 (1.89%) C++
5 2 (1.89%) R
6 1 (0.94%) Go
6 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 99 (93.40%) Degree
2 40 (37.74%) PhD
3 24 (22.64%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) GMP
1 2 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.94%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 55 (51.89%) Google
2 49 (46.23%) Adobe
2 49 (46.23%) Databricks
3 18 (16.98%) PayPal
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) Facebook
5 1 (0.94%) Sawtooth Software
5 1 (0.94%) YouTube