Hybrid/Remote Life Science Job Trends

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 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 377 326
Rank change year-on-year -8 -51 +20
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 71 42 182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.30% 0.26% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.62% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 59 27 41
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +31.58% -13.64%
75th Percentile £76,250 £66,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £97,750 £96,000 £65,766
UK median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% +25.00% -9.09%

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 8,806 6,802 7,839
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.46% 42.17% 33.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,297 3,520 5,066
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,787 £41,250 £45,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -7.56% -4.80%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Life Science and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Life Science job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Life Science
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Life Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Life Science

Life Science
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Life Science over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Life Science salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.82%) Trello
3 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.23%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.41%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.41%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) AWS
2 13 (18.31%) Azure
3 11 (15.49%) SaaS
4 9 (12.68%) GCP
5 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon EventBridge
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.23%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.23%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (4.23%) Serverless
8 2 (2.82%) GitHub
8 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.41%) Asana
9 1 (1.41%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.41%) Google Gemini
9 1 (1.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.86%) Firewall
1 7 (9.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.23%) Big Data
1 3 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.23%) Power BI
1 3 (4.23%) Power Query
2 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 17 (23.94%) Manufacturing
2 16 (22.54%) Pharmaceutical
3 14 (19.72%) Finance
4 13 (18.31%) Social Skills
5 9 (12.68%) Law
6 4 (5.63%) Automotive
6 4 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.23%) Aeronautics
7 3 (4.23%) Arabic Language
7 3 (4.23%) Dutch Language
7 3 (4.23%) French Language
7 3 (4.23%) German Language
7 3 (4.23%) Italian Language
7 3 (4.23%) Japanese Language
7 3 (4.23%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (4.23%) Marketing
7 3 (4.23%) Polish Language
7 3 (4.23%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Senior
2 9 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (12.68%) Consultant
2 9 (12.68%) Recruitment Consultant
3 7 (9.86%) Network Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) Project Manager
3 7 (9.86%) Senior Consultant
3 7 (9.86%) Senior Recruitment Consultant
4 4 (5.63%) Account Executive
4 4 (5.63%) Account Manager
4 4 (5.63%) Lead
5 3 (4.23%) Architect
5 3 (4.23%) Business Development Executive
5 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Senior Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Design Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Electrical Design Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Electrical Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) LangChain
1 9 (12.68%) Terraform
2 8 (11.27%) LlamaIndex
3 3 (4.23%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.23%) CSS
3 3 (4.23%) EDI
3 3 (4.23%) Next.js
3 3 (4.23%) Node.js
3 3 (4.23%) React
3 3 (4.23%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (1.41%) CrewAI
4 1 (1.41%) Flask
4 1 (1.41%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.41%) NumPy
4 1 (1.41%) Pandas
4 1 (1.41%) Playwright
4 1 (1.41%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.41%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.41%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (1.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (14.08%) AI Agents
3 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 7 (9.86%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.23%) Pharmacovigilance
4 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.82%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.82%) LIMS
6 1 (1.41%) FMCG
6 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) NHS
6 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.35%) AI
1 18 (25.35%) Decision-Making
2 14 (19.72%) Business Development
3 13 (18.31%) Software Engineering
4 12 (16.90%) Event-Driven
4 12 (16.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 12 (16.90%) Machine Learning
4 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.49%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (14.08%) ERP
6 10 (14.08%) Project Management
7 9 (12.68%) Agile
7 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.68%) Customer Service
7 9 (12.68%) LLM
7 9 (12.68%) Mentoring
7 9 (12.68%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 9 (12.68%) Software Testing
8 8 (11.27%) Prompt Engineering
8 8 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.17%) Python
2 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
3 3 (4.23%) SQL
4 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.86%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
2 3 (4.23%) PMP
3 2 (2.82%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.82%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.82%) RIBA
4 1 (1.41%) ISEB
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) GDPR
1 7 (9.86%) GxP
2 5 (7.04%) PMO
3 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.23%) QA
4 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.82%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Ansible
2 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (11.27%) SAP
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Google
4 1 (1.41%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce