Biotechnology Jobs

Biotechnology (Biotech)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Biotechnology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Biotechnology over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 624 670 759
Rank change year-on-year +46 +89 -137
Permanent jobs citing Biotechnology 88 238 203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.28% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 20 85 65
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,750 £40,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £125,250 £83,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biotechnology 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 51,972 84,955 96,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 85.58% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,632 59,894 57,116
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,002 £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 £52,365 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.73% -9.09% +4.76%

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 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Biotechnology in the UK

Biotechnology
Top 14 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 13 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 +6 78 £72,500 +26.09% 161
London +73 43 £82,500 +17.86% 77
UK excluding London +53 35 £60,000 +9.09% 107
Work from Home +35 29 £65,000 -11.86% 111
South East +20 11 £47,500 -17.39% 34
North of England +54 10 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Yorkshire +75 8 - - 9
Midlands +76 6 - - 9
East of England +13 6 £72,500 +31.82% 31
West Midlands +50 3 - - 4
East Midlands - 3 - - 5
North West +13 2 £60,000 - 5
South West +96 1 - - 8
Wales +36 1 - - 2

Biotechnology
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 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (13.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.82%) AWS
2 5 (5.68%) SaaS
3 4 (4.55%) Azure
3 4 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.55%) GitHub
3 4 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.27%) Veeva
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DHCP
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
1 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.14%) Big Data
3 1 (1.14%) MySQL
3 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Git
2 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.14%) GitLab
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (67.05%) Pharmaceutical
2 34 (38.64%) Social Skills
3 28 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (19.32%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.23%) Law
6 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.55%) Finance
7 4 (4.55%) French Language
7 4 (4.55%) Legal
7 4 (4.55%) Marketing
8 3 (3.41%) Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Tech for Good
9 2 (2.27%) German Language
9 2 (2.27%) Publishing
10 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 18 (20.45%) Senior
2 12 (13.64%) Trainer
3 9 (10.23%) Biostatistician
4 8 (9.09%) Analyst
4 8 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 8 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
5 7 (7.95%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (7.95%) Data Manager
5 7 (7.95%) Developer
5 7 (7.95%) Senior Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Associate Director
6 5 (5.68%) Field Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Lead
6 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Django Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Field Service Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Head of Data Management
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) Django
1 4 (4.55%) React
2 3 (3.41%) HTML
3 2 (2.27%) CSS
4 1 (1.14%) .NET
4 1 (1.14%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.14%) JSON
4 1 (1.14%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 41 (46.59%) Life Science
2 17 (19.32%) Algorithms
3 12 (13.64%) Molecular Biology
4 6 (6.82%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (4.55%) Operational Technology
5 4 (4.55%) SCADA
6 3 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.41%) LIMS
7 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.14%) NHS
8 1 (1.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Android
1 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.14%) Linux
1 1 (1.14%) Windows
1 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.41%) Computer Science
2 24 (27.27%) Software Engineering
3 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (20.45%) Data Science
3 18 (20.45%) Informatics
3 18 (20.45%) Validation
4 17 (19.32%) Analytics
5 16 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
5 16 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (18.18%) Business Analytics
5 16 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 16 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 16 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 16 (18.18%) Statistics
5 16 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 15 (17.05%) Biochemistry
6 15 (17.05%) Data Management
6 15 (17.05%) Project Management
7 14 (15.91%) Data Collection
7 14 (15.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.91%) Python
2 6 (6.82%) SQL
3 4 (4.55%) C#
4 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (70.45%) Degree
2 32 (36.36%) Master's Degree
3 28 (31.82%) PhD
4 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (3.41%) HNC
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.18%) Good Clinical Practice
2 15 (17.05%) QA
3 10 (11.36%) Data Quality
4 9 (10.23%) GMP
5 5 (5.68%) GxP
6 2 (2.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.27%) GLP
7 1 (1.14%) GAMP
7 1 (1.14%) GDPR
7 1 (1.14%) ISO 13485
7 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) PayPal
2 6 (6.82%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.68%) Rockwell
3 5 (5.68%) Siemens
4 2 (2.27%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle
5 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.14%) VMware