Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 11 April 2021

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biotechnology in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Biotechnology over the 6 months to 11 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Biotechnology
UK
6 months to
11 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 755 973 1109
Rank change year-on-year +218 +136 +86
Permanent jobs citing Biotechnology 94 18 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.016% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.041% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 10
10th Percentile £48,000 " £32,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £31,250 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £32,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -63.89% +50.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £42,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £71,000 £73,250 "
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £32,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +76.92% -63.89% +56.52%

Biotechnology is in the Generic IT Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

All Generic IT Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 32,717 43,836 58,679
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.50% 38.59% 39.42%
Number of salaries quoted 23,312 34,125 44,860
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -

Biotechnology
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Biotechnology in the UK

Biotechnology
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Biotechnology in the UK

Biotechnology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biotechnology over the 6 months to 11 April 2021.

Salary histogram for Biotechnology in the UK

Biotechnology
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biotechnology within the UK over the 6 months to 11 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +188 61 £55,000 +69.23% 46
UK excluding London +144 49 £57,500 +76.92% 38
Work from Home - 31 £61,500 - 5
East of England +81 24 £50,000 +53.85% 16
London +137 10 £65,000 -13.33% 10
South East +98 10 £53,500 -20.74% 16
Scotland - 5 £57,500 - 2
North of England - 4 - - 2
South West -10 3 - -
East Midlands - 3 - - 1
Midlands - 3 - - 2
North West - 2 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -

For the 6 months to 11 April 2021, IT jobs citing Biotechnology also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Biotechnology.

1 67 (71.28%) Pharmaceutical
2 44 (46.81%) SAS
3 41 (43.62%) Degree
4 37 (39.36%) CDISC
5 35 (37.23%) Life Science
6 34 (36.17%) Computer Science
7 30 (31.91%) Python
8 25 (26.60%) Statistics
9 23 (24.47%) R
10 21 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (22.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (20.21%) Machine Learning
11 19 (20.21%) Analytics
12 16 (17.02%) Validation
12 16 (17.02%) Mathematics
13 15 (15.96%) Data Science
13 15 (15.96%) Mentoring
14 13 (13.83%) SAS Macro
14 13 (13.83%) Artificial Intelligence
15 12 (12.77%) Data Management
15 12 (12.77%) Statistical Analysis
15 12 (12.77%) Finance
16 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
16 11 (11.70%) Base SAS
16 11 (11.70%) AWS
17 10 (10.64%) Docker
17 10 (10.64%) Project Management
17 10 (10.64%) PhD
17 10 (10.64%) SQL
18 9 (9.57%) Biology

Biotechnology
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (46.81%) SAS
2 1 (1.06%) Apache
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.06%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle Clinical
2 1 (1.06%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) AWS
2 6 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
2 6 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (4.26%) Azure
4 3 (3.19%) GCP
4 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.06%) SaaS
5 1 (1.06%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Bluetooth
1 2 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (2.13%) Wireless
1 2 (2.13%) ZigBee
2 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.70%) Base SAS
2 4 (4.26%) Tableau
3 3 (3.19%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (3.19%) Power BI
4 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Jenkins
1 6 (6.38%) Maven
1 6 (6.38%) SonarQube
1 6 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (4.26%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.13%) ProC
4 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.06%) GitLab
4 1 (1.06%) JIRA
4 1 (1.06%) Selenium
General
1 67 (71.28%) Pharmaceutical
2 12 (12.77%) Finance
3 5 (5.32%) Marketing
4 4 (4.26%) Legal
5 3 (3.19%) French Language
5 3 (3.19%) German Language
5 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.13%) Electronics
7 1 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (45.74%) Programmer
2 27 (28.72%) Statistical Programmer
3 24 (25.53%) Senior Programmer
4 21 (22.34%) Senior Statistical Programmer
5 10 (10.64%) SAS Programmer
6 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Developer
7 6 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Lead Programmer
8 5 (5.32%) Data Manager
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Data Analytics Specialist
9 3 (3.19%) Database Programmer
9 3 (3.19%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (3.19%) Procurement Specialist
9 3 (3.19%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.13%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) CSS
2 5 (5.32%) HTML
2 5 (5.32%) React
3 2 (2.13%) .NET
3 2 (2.13%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.13%) Django
3 2 (2.13%) Flask
3 2 (2.13%) Keras
3 2 (2.13%) Shiny
3 2 (2.13%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.06%) Blazor
4 1 (1.06%) EDI
4 1 (1.06%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.06%) jQuery
4 1 (1.06%) JSON
4 1 (1.06%) Middleware
4 1 (1.06%) OpenCV
4 1 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (37.23%) Life Science
2 21 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.32%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.26%) Pharmacovigilance
6 3 (3.19%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.13%) NHS
7 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.13%) User Experience
8 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.06%) SCADA
8 1 (1.06%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.17%) Computer Science
2 25 (26.60%) Statistics
3 19 (20.21%) Analytics
3 19 (20.21%) Machine Learning
4 16 (17.02%) Mathematics
4 16 (17.02%) Validation
5 15 (15.96%) Data Science
5 15 (15.96%) Mentoring
6 13 (13.83%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (12.77%) Data Management
7 12 (12.77%) Statistical Analysis
8 11 (11.70%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.64%) Project Management
10 9 (9.57%) Biology
10 9 (9.57%) Continuous Delivery
11 8 (8.51%) Bioinformatics
11 8 (8.51%) Biostatistics
11 8 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (7.45%) DevOps
13 6 (6.38%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.91%) Python
2 23 (24.47%) R
3 13 (13.83%) SAS Macro
4 10 (10.64%) SQL
5 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.32%) C
6 5 (5.32%) C++
7 4 (4.26%) Java
8 2 (2.13%) C#
8 2 (2.13%) Embedded C
8 2 (2.13%) Embedded C++
8 2 (2.13%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.06%) Julia
9 1 (1.06%) Scala
9 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.06%) VB
9 1 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (43.62%) Degree
2 21 (22.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (10.64%) PhD
4 8 (8.51%) Master's Degree
5 5 (5.32%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (39.36%) CDISC
2 5 (5.32%) GxP
2 5 (5.32%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (1.06%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.06%) GAMP
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.06%) ITGC
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (10.64%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (3.19%) Google
1 3 (3.19%) Informatica
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.19%) SAP
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (1.06%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.06%) DocuSign
51 Biotechnology job vacancies Nationwide