Life Science Jobs in London

Life Sciences
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Life Science in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Life Science over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 435 335
Rank change year-on-year +107 -100 +143
Permanent jobs citing Life Science 188 168 943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.54% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 1.17% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 41 88 112
10th Percentile - £47,125 £47,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -15.63%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £123,800 £95,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -2.22%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 9,885 14,324 38,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 39.89% 45.89% 51.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,860 9,973 15,603
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,946 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £125,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

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
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Life Science in London

Life Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Life Science in London over the 6 months to 15 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Life Science in London

Life Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Life Science within the London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +115 80 £54,000 -10.00% 16
West London +3 10 £75,000 -6.25% 14
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 3 (1.60%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.06%) nginx
2 2 (1.06%) SAS
2 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.13%) SAP BPC
2 4 (2.13%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.13%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.13%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.53%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.64%) Snowflake
2 10 (5.32%) AWS
3 8 (4.26%) OCI
4 5 (2.66%) Azure
4 5 (2.66%) SaaS
5 4 (2.13%) Dagster
5 4 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.60%) Serverless
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.53%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (0.53%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.53%) GCP
8 1 (0.53%) GitHub
8 1 (0.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.06%) Firewall
2 2 (1.06%) LAN
2 2 (1.06%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.06%) WAN
3 1 (0.53%) DHCP
3 1 (0.53%) DNS
3 1 (0.53%) Network Security
3 1 (0.53%) SAN
3 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.77%) SQL Server
2 21 (11.17%) Tableau
3 6 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.13%) MySQL
4 4 (2.13%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.60%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.60%) SQLite
6 2 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.06%) Base SAS
6 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) Big Data
7 1 (0.53%) Metadata
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.13%) Snakemake
2 3 (1.60%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.06%) JUnit
3 2 (1.06%) Maven
3 2 (1.06%) Mockito
3 2 (1.06%) Postman
3 2 (1.06%) Selenium
3 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
3 2 (1.06%) TestNG
4 1 (0.53%) Terragrunt
General
1 94 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 83 (44.15%) Pharmaceutical
3 77 (40.96%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (34.04%) Finance
5 50 (26.60%) Marketing
6 29 (15.43%) Law
7 24 (12.77%) Retail
8 23 (12.23%) Legal
9 20 (10.64%) Manufacturing
10 12 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (4.79%) Billing
12 8 (4.26%) Humanities
12 8 (4.26%) Social Science
13 5 (2.66%) French Language
14 4 (2.13%) Danish Language
14 4 (2.13%) German Language
14 4 (2.13%) Public Sector
14 4 (2.13%) Russian Language
14 4 (2.13%) Spanish Language
14 4 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (26.60%) Senior
2 45 (23.94%) Analyst
3 13 (6.91%) Consultant
4 11 (5.85%) Development Manager
5 10 (5.32%) Data Scientist
5 10 (5.32%) Financial Analyst
5 10 (5.32%) Senior Data Scientist
6 9 (4.79%) Head of QA
6 9 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (4.79%) QA Manager
6 9 (4.79%) Senior Manager
7 8 (4.26%) Research Manager
8 7 (3.72%) Associate Director
9 5 (2.66%) Developer
9 5 (2.66%) Oracle Consultant
9 5 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (2.66%) Senior Financial Analyst
10 4 (2.13%) SAP CO Consultant
10 4 (2.13%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
10 4 (2.13%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.64%) CSS
1 20 (10.64%) HTML
2 4 (2.13%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.06%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.06%) Guice
3 2 (1.06%) JAX-RS
3 2 (1.06%) Kafka
3 2 (1.06%) Mustache
3 2 (1.06%) OpenAPI
3 2 (1.06%) REST
3 2 (1.06%) RESTful
3 2 (1.06%) Spring
3 2 (1.06%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.06%) Swagger
3 2 (1.06%) WireMock
4 1 (0.53%) FHIR
4 1 (0.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.30%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.45%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (3.19%) Biopharmaceutical
3 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.13%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.13%) Omics
4 4 (2.13%) Operational Technology
5 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.60%) Learning Management System
5 3 (1.60%) LIMS
5 3 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.06%) NHS
6 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.53%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.53%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.72%) Windows
2 4 (2.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.13%) Analytics
2 49 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (23.94%) Biotechnology
4 36 (19.15%) Computer Science
5 34 (18.09%) Data Science
6 31 (16.49%) Statistics
7 29 (15.43%) Informatics
7 29 (15.43%) Process Improvement
8 28 (14.89%) Business Development
9 26 (13.83%) Data Modelling
10 25 (13.30%) Data Management
10 25 (13.30%) Neuroscience
10 25 (13.30%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.30%) Visualisation
11 24 (12.77%) Analytical Thinking
11 24 (12.77%) Data Visualisation
12 23 (12.23%) Business Analytics
13 21 (11.17%) Machine Learning
14 20 (10.64%) Artificial Intelligence
15 18 (9.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (13.30%) SQL
2 20 (10.64%) JavaScript
2 20 (10.64%) T-SQL
3 7 (3.72%) Python
4 4 (2.13%) Bash
4 4 (2.13%) Java
5 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.06%) SAS Macro
7 1 (0.53%) Go
7 1 (0.53%) Scala
7 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 132 (70.21%) Degree
2 45 (23.94%) PhD
3 29 (15.43%) Master's Degree
4 11 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.19%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.53%) MCSE
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.64%) SLA
2 18 (9.57%) QA
3 9 (4.79%) GLP
3 9 (4.79%) Good Clinical Practice
4 8 (4.26%) GMP
5 4 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.06%) CDISC
7 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.06%) Docker
1 2 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (2.13%) Terraform
2 3 (1.60%) Ansible
2 3 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
3 2 (1.06%) Packer
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.91%) Oracle
3 9 (4.79%) SAP
4 8 (4.26%) QAD
5 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.06%) Blue Prism
6 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.06%) VMware
7 1 (0.53%) Cisco
7 1 (0.53%) Citrix
7 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.53%) Google
7 1 (0.53%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.53%) HP
7 1 (0.53%) Juniper
7 1 (0.53%) Meraki
7 1 (0.53%) Palo Alto