Life Science Jobs

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 cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 390 441
Rank change year-on-year -102 +51 -153
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing Life Science 214 555 443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.97% 1.99% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 90 108 185
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £49,786 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% -9.48% -15.38%
75th Percentile £85,625 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £99,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £49,571 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.22% -9.87% +7.84%

All Generic Skills
UK

Life Science falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,002 27,878 29,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 39.73% 32.37% 41.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10,421 15,495 19,086
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £42,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.73% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £84,942
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,309 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.58% -8.53% +4.76%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Life Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Life Science

Life Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

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 27 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -125 194 £62,500 +25.00% 269
UK excluding London -23 127 £45,000 -9.22% 181
London -70 75 £82,500 +37.50% 166
South East +25 62 £62,500 +56.25% 118
Work from Home -76 45 £58,750 +23.68% 111
North of England -26 29 £30,250 -34.59% 26
North West +3 25 £36,000 -24.21% 19
South West +77 10 £48,500 +7.78% 5
East of England -28 9 - - 8
Midlands +35 8 £58,750 -39.74% 10
West Midlands +39 7 £58,750 -39.74% 6
Northern Ireland +20 5 £55,000 - 6
Scotland +74 4 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -7 4 £27,000 -32.50% 7
Wales +23 1 - - 1
East Midlands +15 1 - - 4

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 9 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.74%) nginx
2 8 (3.74%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.93%) WinCC
4 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (2.80%) Unit4 Business World
2 5 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.87%) SAP SCM
4 2 (0.93%) Primavera
4 2 (0.93%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.93%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.47%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.47%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (10.75%) Azure
2 18 (8.41%) AWS
3 15 (7.01%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (4.67%) SaaS
5 8 (3.74%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 8 (3.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 8 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (3.74%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.74%) GitHub
6 5 (2.34%) GCP
7 4 (1.87%) Azure AI
7 4 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.87%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.40%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.47%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.21%) Relational Database
2 8 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.27%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.87%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.87%) Metadata
5 3 (1.40%) Power BI
6 2 (0.93%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.47%) Big Data
7 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.47%) GIS
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.47%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (4.21%) Git
2 8 (3.74%) Bitbucket
2 8 (3.74%) Cucumber
2 8 (3.74%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.74%) JUnit
2 8 (3.74%) Maven
2 8 (3.74%) Mockito
2 8 (3.74%) Postman
2 8 (3.74%) Selenium
2 8 (3.74%) SonarQube
2 8 (3.74%) TestNG
3 3 (1.40%) JIRA
4 2 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 108 (50.47%) Social Skills
2 58 (27.10%) Finance
3 49 (22.90%) Law
4 32 (14.95%) Manufacturing
5 30 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (12.62%) Pharmaceutical
7 25 (11.68%) Electronics
8 24 (11.21%) Automotive
9 23 (10.75%) Aerospace
10 12 (5.61%) Public Sector
11 10 (4.67%) Marketing
11 10 (4.67%) Retail
12 8 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.87%) Legal
15 3 (1.40%) German Language
16 2 (0.93%) Banking
16 2 (0.93%) Games
16 2 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
16 2 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (17.76%) Lead
2 37 (17.29%) Consultant
3 23 (10.75%) Managing Consultant
4 22 (10.28%) Team Leader
5 21 (9.81%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 21 (9.81%) Security Consultant
6 19 (8.88%) Senior
7 11 (5.14%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (4.21%) Architect
8 9 (4.21%) Business Development Manager
8 9 (4.21%) Business Manager
8 9 (4.21%) Development Manager
8 9 (4.21%) Java Engineer
9 8 (3.74%) Accountant
9 8 (3.74%) Analyst
9 8 (3.74%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.27%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (3.27%) Recruitment Consultant
10 7 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.27%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.14%) REST
2 10 (4.67%) Spring
3 9 (4.21%) RESTful
4 8 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (3.74%) Gherkin
4 8 (3.74%) Guice
4 8 (3.74%) JAX-RS
4 8 (3.74%) Kafka
4 8 (3.74%) Mustache
4 8 (3.74%) OpenAPI
4 8 (3.74%) Spring Boot
4 8 (3.74%) Swagger
4 8 (3.74%) WireMock
5 7 (3.27%) React
6 5 (2.34%) Django
7 4 (1.87%) FHIR
8 3 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.40%) Web Services
9 2 (0.93%) EDI
9 2 (0.93%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.02%) Operational Technology
2 25 (11.68%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.27%) SCADA
5 6 (2.80%) Blog
5 6 (2.80%) Omics
6 5 (2.34%) PMI
7 4 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.87%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.87%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.40%) Social Media
9 2 (0.93%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.93%) IoT
9 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.93%) Pharmacovigilance
9 2 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.34%) Windows
2 3 (1.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (33.18%) Business Development
2 46 (21.50%) Computer Science
3 41 (19.16%) Mentoring
4 40 (18.69%) Agile
5 33 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (14.95%) Validation
7 29 (13.55%) Coaching
7 29 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 28 (13.08%) Project Management
9 25 (11.68%) Regulatory Compliance
10 24 (11.21%) Architectural Design
10 24 (11.21%) Enterprise Architecture
11 23 (10.75%) Business Continuity
11 23 (10.75%) Creative Thinking
12 22 (10.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 21 (9.81%) Cybersecurity
14 19 (8.88%) Analytics
14 19 (8.88%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (8.88%) Biotechnology
14 19 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.75%) Python
2 19 (8.88%) SQL
3 13 (6.07%) C#
3 13 (6.07%) Java
4 4 (1.87%) R
5 3 (1.40%) C++
5 3 (1.40%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.93%) Bicep
6 2 (0.93%) C
6 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.47%) Go
7 1 (0.47%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 96 (44.86%) Degree
2 36 (16.82%) Master's Degree
3 34 (15.89%) PhD
4 21 (9.81%) CISM
4 21 (9.81%) CISSP
5 8 (3.74%) ACCA
5 8 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.34%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.40%) MCP
9 2 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.47%) MBA
10 1 (0.47%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.49%) GxP
2 11 (5.14%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.74%) GAAP
4 7 (3.27%) GDPR
5 5 (2.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (1.87%) CDISC
6 4 (1.87%) HL7
7 3 (1.40%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.40%) Good Clinical Practice
7 3 (1.40%) ISO 13485
7 3 (1.40%) QA
8 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.93%) GAMP
8 2 (0.93%) GMP
8 2 (0.93%) IEC 62304
8 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.47%) DICOM
9 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.47%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (10.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (7.48%) Docker
3 7 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.87%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.67%) Terraform
3 8 (3.74%) Ansible
3 8 (3.74%) Kustomize
3 8 (3.74%) Packer
4 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.28%) VMware
3 9 (4.21%) Siemens
4 8 (3.74%) Databricks
4 8 (3.74%) Red Hat
5 7 (3.27%) Oracle
5 7 (3.27%) Rockwell
5 7 (3.27%) SAP
6 3 (1.40%) Google
7 2 (0.93%) Instagram
7 2 (0.93%) Twitter
8 1 (0.47%) ESRI
8 1 (0.47%) Foundry
8 1 (0.47%) Informatica