Computational Biology Jobs

Computational Biology
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Computational Biology skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computational Biology over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 895 952
Rank change year-on-year +207 +57 +243
Permanent jobs citing Computational Biology 12 7 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.007% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.008% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - - £41,375
25th Percentile - £54,752 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £75,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile - £80,000 £77,188
90th Percentile - - £92,375
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £40,000

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Computational 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 51,147 84,812 96,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.75% 85.58% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 26,984 59,843 56,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Computational Biology
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computational Biology in the UK

Computational Biology
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Computational Biology in the UK

Computational Biology
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computational Biology within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 +153 12 £135,000 +80.00% 40
East of England - 10 - - 9
UK excluding London - 10 - - 21
Work from Home +153 9 - - 11
London +102 2 £135,000 +80.00% 26

Computational 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 9 (75.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
General
1 11 (91.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 9 (75.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) PyTorch
1 11 (91.67%) scikit-learn
1 11 (91.67%) TensorFlow
2 9 (75.00%) Keras
2 9 (75.00%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (8.33%) CRISPR
2 1 (8.33%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 12 (100.00%) Biology
1 12 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (91.67%) Physics
3 10 (83.33%) Data Science
3 10 (83.33%) Software Engineering
4 9 (75.00%) Analytics
4 9 (75.00%) Data Analytics
4 9 (75.00%) Data Engineering
4 9 (75.00%) Data Transformation
4 9 (75.00%) Deep Learning
4 9 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 9 (75.00%) Dimensionality Reduction
4 9 (75.00%) Mathematics
4 9 (75.00%) PLM
4 9 (75.00%) Reinforcement Learning
4 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
4 9 (75.00%) Statistics
4 9 (75.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
1 12 (100.00%) PhD
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Facebook
1 1 (8.33%) YouTube