Life Science Contracts in London

Life Sciences
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in contract job vacancies advertised in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Life Science over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 446 553
Rank change year-on-year +85 +107 -91
Contract jobs citing Life Science 34 34 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 30
10th Percentile £410 £425 £435
25th Percentile £481 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -11.36% -6.06%
75th Percentile £1,000 £559 £638
90th Percentile £1,750 £638 £913
England median daily rate £525 £488 £508
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.94% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £61.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% - +35.87%
75th Percentile £38.75 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £58.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.36% -6.00% +42.05%

All Generic Skills
London

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 contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,826 9,269 14,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.34% 35.88% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,122 6,675 10,261
10th Percentile £313 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £713
90th Percentile £850 £838 £800
England median daily rate £550 £572 £550
% change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 116 201
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.93 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.57 £23.91
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -19.98% +30.57%
75th Percentile £49.13 £64.31 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.50 £84.38 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%

Life Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Life Science in London.

Daily rate trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Life Science in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Life Science in London.

Hourly rate trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London +22 9 £563 +18.42% 13
Central London +54 3 £755 +221.28% 15
Life Science
England

Life Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (5.88%) SAP CCM
3 1 (2.94%) SAP APO
3 1 (2.94%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.94%) SAP IBP
3 1 (2.94%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.76%) AWS
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
2 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (8.82%) Serverless
3 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.88%) GitHub
3 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (2.94%) Azure
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Run
4 1 (2.94%) Collibra
4 1 (2.94%) dbt
4 1 (2.94%) GCP
4 1 (2.94%) OCI
4 1 (2.94%) PaaS
4 1 (2.94%) SaaS
4 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.94%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Mining
1 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.94%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) PyCharm
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (17.65%) Retail
4 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.88%) Finance
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Automotive
7 1 (2.94%) Aviation
7 1 (2.94%) Environmental Health
7 1 (2.94%) Legal
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 4 (11.76%) Consultant
1 4 (11.76%) Senior
2 3 (8.82%) Architect
2 3 (8.82%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 3 (8.82%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Lead
3 2 (5.88%) SAP Manager
3 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
3 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) Mechanical Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Python Developer
4 1 (2.94%) Safety Advisor
4 1 (2.94%) SAP PLM Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) PyTorch
1 3 (8.82%) scikit-learn
1 3 (8.82%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.94%) CSS
2 1 (2.94%) D3.js
2 1 (2.94%) HTML
2 1 (2.94%) Node.js
2 1 (2.94%) Nuxt
2 1 (2.94%) pytest
2 1 (2.94%) React
2 1 (2.94%) Svelte
2 1 (2.94%) SvelteKit
2 1 (2.94%) Vue
2 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Genomics
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Podcast
3 1 (2.94%) Raspberry Pi
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.65%) DevOps
2 5 (14.71%) Machine Learning
3 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (8.82%) Agile
4 3 (8.82%) Analytics
4 3 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (8.82%) Biotechnology
4 3 (8.82%) Change Management
4 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
4 3 (8.82%) Data Management
4 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
4 3 (8.82%) ERP
4 3 (8.82%) ETL
4 3 (8.82%) LLM
4 3 (8.82%) Migration
4 3 (8.82%) Open Source
4 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (8.82%) Software Engineering
4 3 (8.82%) Statistics
4 3 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) Go
4 1 (2.94%) Groovy
4 1 (2.94%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.88%) GxP
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) COSHH
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) Good Clinical Practice
2 1 (2.94%) HL7
2 1 (2.94%) NEBOSH
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) SAP
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) Ariba
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.94%) Confluent
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Google
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.94%) Talend