Life Science Jobs with Work from Home Options

Life Sciences
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 375 461
Rank change year-on-year +13 +86 -163
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 180 217 566
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.64% 0.66% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.87% 1.70% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 47 82 167
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,813 £48,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,960 £77,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% -13.39% +17.05%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,605 12,729 36,632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.38% 38.79% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,855 9,924 18,426
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Life Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Life Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Life Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Life Science
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Life Science.

Life Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Life Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Life Science over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Life Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (6.67%) Documentum
2 6 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.11%) nginx
3 2 (1.11%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.56%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (6.67%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.00%) AWS
2 15 (8.33%) Snowflake
3 14 (7.78%) Azure
4 7 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.89%) Power Platform
4 7 (3.89%) SaaS
5 6 (3.33%) GitHub
5 6 (3.33%) IaaS
6 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.22%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.67%) Figma
8 3 (1.67%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) VPN
2 2 (1.11%) Firewall
2 2 (1.11%) LAN
2 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.11%) WAN
2 2 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.56%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.00%) Tableau
3 7 (3.89%) Power BI
4 5 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (2.22%) MySQL
6 3 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.67%) Big Data
6 3 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.67%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.67%) SQLite
7 2 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.56%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Bitbucket
1 2 (1.11%) Cucumber
1 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.11%) JUnit
1 2 (1.11%) Maven
1 2 (1.11%) Mockito
1 2 (1.11%) Postman
1 2 (1.11%) Selenium
1 2 (1.11%) SonarQube
1 2 (1.11%) TestNG
2 1 (0.56%) Axure RP
General
1 103 (57.22%) Pharmaceutical
2 94 (52.22%) Social Skills
3 68 (37.78%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (23.89%) Marketing
5 32 (17.78%) Manufacturing
6 27 (15.00%) Finance
7 25 (13.89%) Retail
8 18 (10.00%) Legal
9 9 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (3.89%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.22%) Danish Language
12 4 (2.22%) French Language
12 4 (2.22%) German Language
12 4 (2.22%) Russian Language
12 4 (2.22%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.56%) Automotive
13 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (28.33%) Analyst
2 42 (23.33%) Senior
3 21 (11.67%) Data Scientist
3 21 (11.67%) Senior Data Scientist
4 16 (8.89%) QA Manager
5 13 (7.22%) IT Manager
6 12 (6.67%) Data Integrity Manager
6 12 (6.67%) Developer
6 12 (6.67%) Systems Manager
7 11 (6.11%) QA Specialist
7 11 (6.11%) Validation Specialist
8 9 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (3.89%) Associate Director
10 6 (3.33%) Development Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Test Development Engineer
11 4 (2.22%) Consultant
11 4 (2.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 4 (2.22%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.00%) CSS
1 18 (10.00%) HTML
2 4 (2.22%) EDI
2 4 (2.22%) Spring
3 3 (1.67%) React
4 2 (1.11%) .NET
4 2 (1.11%) D3.js
4 2 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.11%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.11%) Guice
4 2 (1.11%) JAX-RS
4 2 (1.11%) Kafka
4 2 (1.11%) Mustache
4 2 (1.11%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.11%) REST
4 2 (1.11%) RESTful
4 2 (1.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.11%) Swagger
4 2 (1.11%) WireMock
5 1 (0.56%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 46 (25.56%) Algorithms
2 15 (8.33%) LIMS
3 11 (6.11%) Pharmacovigilance
4 10 (5.56%) Biopharmaceutical
5 4 (2.22%) NHS
5 4 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.67%) Genomics
6 3 (1.67%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Graphic Design
8 1 (0.56%) Photography
8 1 (0.56%) PMI
8 1 (0.56%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.56%) Robotics
8 1 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.44%) Windows
2 6 (3.33%) Linux
3 5 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.89%) Biotechnology
2 64 (35.56%) Analytics
3 53 (29.44%) Software Engineering
4 52 (28.89%) Computer Science
5 50 (27.78%) Informatics
6 49 (27.22%) Data Modelling
6 49 (27.22%) Visualisation
7 48 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
7 48 (26.67%) Process Improvement
8 47 (26.11%) Data Science
8 47 (26.11%) Statistics
9 46 (25.56%) Analytical Thinking
10 45 (25.00%) Business Analytics
11 30 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (14.44%) Artificial Intelligence
12 26 (14.44%) Validation
13 22 (12.22%) Neuroscience
13 22 (12.22%) QMS
14 21 (11.67%) Dashboard Development
15 18 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.89%) SQL
2 18 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 7 (3.89%) Python
5 6 (3.33%) Bash
5 6 (3.33%) Java
5 6 (3.33%) Ruby
6 3 (1.67%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.11%) C#
8 1 (0.56%) C++
8 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 96 (53.33%) Degree
2 48 (26.67%) Master's Degree
3 47 (26.11%) PhD
4 5 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.11%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) PMP
6 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (21.11%) QA
2 15 (8.33%) GMP
2 15 (8.33%) Good Clinical Practice
2 15 (8.33%) SLA
3 13 (7.22%) GxP
4 5 (2.78%) GLP
5 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.56%) GAMP
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.67%) Terraform
2 2 (1.11%) Ansible
2 2 (1.11%) Kustomize
2 2 (1.11%) Packer
Vendors
1 20 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.67%) Cisco
2 3 (1.67%) Oracle
3 2 (1.11%) Apple
3 2 (1.11%) Blue Prism
3 2 (1.11%) Charles River
3 2 (1.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.11%) VMware
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe
4 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.56%) Meraki
4 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.56%) SAP