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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 658 847 853
Rank change year-on-year +189 +6 -158
Permanent jobs citing Biology 54 31 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.031% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.037% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 31
10th Percentile £26,475 £35,690 £27,954
25th Percentile £28,500 £43,585 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +31.15% -36.90%
75th Percentile £49,500 £80,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £129,750 £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 51,711 84,738 96,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.57% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 26,444 59,708 57,080
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.90% -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 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Biology in the UK

Biology
Top 13 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 14 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 +164 50 £30,000 -48.14% 145
UK excluding London +210 39 £30,000 -50.00% 85
Work from Home +141 32 £29,000 -61.33% 62
London +111 13 £29,000 -47.92% 79
East of England +57 12 - - 28
South East +103 11 - - 26
Midlands +70 10 £30,000 -50.00% 13
West Midlands +60 7 £30,000 -50.00% 8
North of England +55 4 - - 14
Yorkshire - 4 - - 8
East Midlands - 3 - - 5
Wales - 1 - -
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 6 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) Apache
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 9 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 6 (11.11%) Slack
3 6 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 6 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
1 6 (11.11%) GitLab
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 22 (40.74%) Manufacturing
2 13 (24.07%) Pharmaceutical
3 11 (20.37%) Electronics
4 9 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Law
6 2 (3.70%) Legal
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Trainer
2 9 (16.67%) Biostatistician
3 7 (12.96%) Software Engineer
4 6 (11.11%) Developer
5 5 (9.26%) Graduate
5 5 (9.26%) Software Developer
6 4 (7.41%) Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.41%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) Graduate Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) Graduate Product Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Lecturer
7 2 (3.70%) Product Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) Product Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.37%) PyTorch
1 11 (20.37%) scikit-learn
1 11 (20.37%) TensorFlow
2 9 (16.67%) Keras
2 9 (16.67%) NumPy
3 6 (11.11%) Django
3 6 (11.11%) Flask
3 6 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
3 6 (11.11%) React
4 2 (3.70%) CSS
4 2 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (42.59%) Molecular Biology
2 15 (27.78%) Algorithms
3 5 (9.26%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.70%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (3.70%) LIMS
7 1 (1.85%) CRISPR
7 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Genomics
7 1 (1.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Debian
1 5 (9.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) Artificial Intelligence
2 26 (48.15%) Physics
3 19 (35.19%) Mathematics
4 18 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 17 (31.48%) Bioinformatics
5 17 (31.48%) Software Engineering
6 16 (29.63%) Chemistry
7 14 (25.93%) Biochemistry
7 14 (25.93%) Biotechnology
7 14 (25.93%) Computer Science
8 13 (24.07%) Analytics
8 13 (24.07%) Data Analytics
8 13 (24.07%) Data Interpretation
8 13 (24.07%) Experimental Design
8 13 (24.07%) Informatics
9 12 (22.22%) Computational Biology
9 12 (22.22%) Conversational UI
10 11 (20.37%) Commercialisation
10 11 (20.37%) Disruptive Innovation
11 10 (18.52%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 6 (11.11%) SQL
3 6 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.41%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) Java
6 2 (3.70%) C
6 2 (3.70%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) Go
7 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (79.63%) Degree
2 35 (64.81%) PhD
3 20 (37.04%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) GMP
1 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.11%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) PayPal
2 6 (11.11%) Sawtooth Software
3 4 (7.41%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) Oracle
5 1 (1.85%) Facebook
5 1 (1.85%) YouTube