Life Science Job Trends in York

Life Sciences
North Yorkshire > York

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in York. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 38 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 3 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in York 0.97% 0.41% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.69% 2.99% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £33,125 -
% change year-on-year +43.40% - -

All Generic Skills
York

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 in York.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 64 67 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in York 20.78% 13.59% 19.53%
Number of salaries quoted 39 27 67
10th Percentile £29,400 - £23,750
25th Percentile £35,250 £33,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £64,000 - £70,000
North Yorkshire median annual salary £39,527 £34,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year +16.26% -20.93% -16.10%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in York

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Life Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in York.

Life Science job vacancy trend in York

Life Science
Salary Trend in York

Salary distribution trend for jobs in York citing Life Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in York citing Life Science

Life Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in York 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 3 (100.00%) Biology
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker