Life Sciences
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 416 410 311
Rank change year-on-year -6 -99 +297
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 347 949 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.77% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.78% 1.79% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 122 323 256
10th Percentile £29,225 £40,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -
75th Percentile £67,250 £85,625 £75,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £109,500 £101,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,250 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -29.58% +14.29% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Life Science is in the General and Transferable 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 19,511 52,884 56,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.83% 43.05% 44.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,245 29,698 33,809
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +7.92% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £106,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Life Science.

Salary trend for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Life Science in the UK

Life Science
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +41 309 £42,500 -39.29% 304
UK excluding London +93 283 £42,250 -29.58% 204
Work from Home +71 218 £53,500 -23.57% 103
Midlands +182 106 £90,000 +35.85% 21
East Midlands +113 82 - - 7
South East +91 82 £55,000 -8.33% 63
North of England +60 44 £38,500 -39.61% 52
London +37 37 £57,500 -20.69% 127
Yorkshire +42 28 £38,500 -26.67% 18
West Midlands +117 24 £90,000 +28.57% 14
East of England +29 24 £35,000 -29.29% 30
North West +98 15 £52,500 -30.00% 33
Scotland +34 14 £61,500 -23.13% 22
South West +61 12 £42,500 -0.58% 13
North East +42 1 £61,500 +36.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £77,500 - 1

Life Science
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 81 (23.34%) SAS
2 15 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.86%) IIS
3 3 (0.86%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.58%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (7.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (4.03%) SAP SCM
3 2 (0.58%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.29%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.29%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 48 (13.83%) Azure
2 29 (8.36%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (5.76%) AWS
4 11 (3.17%) Serverless
5 8 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (2.31%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.02%) SaaS
7 6 (1.73%) CloudSense
8 4 (1.15%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.86%) Mimecast
9 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.29%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.29%) GitHub
10 1 (0.29%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.29%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.34%) Firewall
2 16 (4.61%) SAN
3 10 (2.88%) NAS
4 6 (1.73%) VLAN
5 4 (1.15%) VoIP
5 4 (1.15%) VPN
6 3 (0.86%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.58%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.29%) LAN
8 1 (0.29%) WAN
8 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (23.05%) Base SAS
2 64 (18.44%) Metadata
3 7 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.44%) MySQL
4 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.86%) Power BI
6 2 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.58%) Big Data
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.29%) Power Query
7 1 (0.29%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.29%) QlikView
7 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.29%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Bitbucket
1 6 (1.73%) git-flow
2 5 (1.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.58%) Git
General
1 124 (35.73%) Pharmaceutical
2 90 (25.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (15.27%) Social Skills
4 48 (13.83%) Law
5 42 (12.10%) Finance
6 24 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (6.63%) Manufacturing
7 23 (6.63%) Retail
8 16 (4.61%) Legal
9 14 (4.03%) Automotive
10 9 (2.59%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.31%) Marketing
12 6 (1.73%) Agrochemical
12 6 (1.73%) Games
13 5 (1.44%) French Language
13 5 (1.44%) German Language
13 5 (1.44%) Italian Language
13 5 (1.44%) Spanish Language
14 4 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 90 (25.94%) Graduate
2 64 (18.44%) Programmer
2 64 (18.44%) SAS Programmer
2 64 (18.44%) SAS Statistical Programmer
2 64 (18.44%) Statistical Programmer
3 59 (17.00%) Senior
4 57 (16.43%) Graduate Sales Executive
4 57 (16.43%) Sales Executive
5 36 (10.37%) Consultant
6 34 (9.80%) Senior Programmer
6 34 (9.80%) Senior SAS Programmer
6 34 (9.80%) Senior Statistical Programmer
7 30 (8.65%) Principal Statistical Programmer
8 27 (7.78%) IT Engineer
8 27 (7.78%) SAP Consultant
9 22 (6.34%) Analyst
9 22 (6.34%) IT Support
10 15 (4.32%) Field Engineer
10 15 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
10 15 (4.32%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (19.02%) XML
2 10 (2.88%) Express.js
2 10 (2.88%) Node.js
2 10 (2.88%) Spring
3 7 (2.02%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.15%) .NET
5 3 (0.86%) HTML
5 3 (0.86%) Middleware
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.29%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.29%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.29%) HTML5
6 1 (0.29%) NumPy
6 1 (0.29%) Pandas
6 1 (0.29%) Playwright
6 1 (0.29%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.29%) React
6 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.29%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 85 (24.50%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.61%) Renewable Energy
3 15 (4.32%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.17%) Public Cloud
5 10 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.88%) Low-Code
5 10 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.73%) Biopharmaceutical
8 5 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.86%) IoT
11 2 (0.58%) Client/Server
11 2 (0.58%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.58%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.58%) Pharmacovigilance
11 2 (0.58%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.37%) Windows
2 28 (8.07%) Windows Server
3 11 (3.17%) Linux
4 10 (2.88%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (37.46%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (34.01%) Biotechnology
3 105 (30.26%) Customer Service
4 96 (27.67%) Computer Science
5 89 (25.65%) Line Management
6 87 (25.07%) Collaborative Working
7 83 (23.92%) Statistics
8 82 (23.63%) Mathematics
9 80 (23.05%) Creative Thinking
10 67 (19.31%) Project Management
11 58 (16.71%) Decision-Making
12 49 (14.12%) Data Management
13 48 (13.83%) Immunology
14 47 (13.54%) Time Management
15 46 (13.26%) Biostatistics
15 46 (13.26%) Clinical Data Management
16 23 (6.63%) People Management
17 18 (5.19%) Agile
17 18 (5.19%) Migration
18 16 (4.61%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (23.05%) SAS Macro
2 18 (5.19%) SQL
3 11 (3.17%) Java
4 9 (2.59%) Ruby
5 8 (2.31%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.02%) Apex Code
6 7 (2.02%) Python
7 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.15%) C#
9 3 (0.86%) R
10 2 (0.58%) C++
10 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.58%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.29%) ABAP
11 1 (0.29%) VB
11 1 (0.29%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 106 (30.55%) Degree
2 30 (8.65%) Numerate Degree
3 11 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.44%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.15%) PhD
6 2 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.29%) CISA
7 1 (0.29%) CISSP
7 1 (0.29%) MCDST
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (23.05%) CDISC
2 66 (19.02%) QA
3 8 (2.31%) GDPR
4 6 (1.73%) SLA
5 5 (1.44%) GxP
5 5 (1.44%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) FISMA
7 1 (0.29%) GLP
7 1 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) HITRUST
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 29 (8.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.48%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.86%) DFS Replication
4 3 (0.86%) vSphere
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (4.03%) SCCM
3 5 (1.44%) Terraform
4 2 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 56 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.37%) VMware
3 34 (9.80%) SAP
4 10 (2.88%) iManage
5 9 (2.59%) Veeam
6 8 (2.31%) Oracle
6 8 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.73%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.58%) Verint
9 1 (0.29%) Ariba
9 1 (0.29%) Aruba
9 1 (0.29%) Cisco
9 1 (0.29%) Informatica