Biology
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Biology skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Biology over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 851 841 693
Rank change year-on-year -10 -148 +134
Permanent jobs citing Biology 32 118 630
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.12% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.12% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 11
10th Percentile £35,690 £41,500 -
25th Percentile £43,585 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,263 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.80% -32.05% +20.99%
75th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £135,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +31.15% -8.50% -28.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Biology is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Biology
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biology in the UK

Biology
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Biology.

Salary trend for Biology in the UK

Biology
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biology over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Biology in the UK

Biology
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biology within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +11 29 £57,843 +17.42% 82
London +113 17 £55,686 -57.17% 26
UK excluding London -95 13 £60,000 +31.15% 62
Work from Home +66 10 £75,000 +25.00% 27
South East -9 9 - - 19
East of England 0 1 £70,000 -30.00% 22
North of England -1 1 - - 11
North West -6 1 - - 8
Scotland - 1 £50,000 - 7
West Midlands - 1 £60,000 -
Midlands - 1 £60,000 - 2

Biology
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Dagster
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.25%) CloudFront
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Asana
4 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) BGP
1 2 (6.25%) DHCP
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
1 2 (6.25%) LAN
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
1 2 (6.25%) OSPF
1 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 2 (6.25%) SSL
1 2 (6.25%) VPN
1 2 (6.25%) VXLAN
1 2 (6.25%) WAN
1 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (3.13%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Spotfire
3 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Snakemake
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Redmine
2 1 (3.13%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Electronics
2 9 (28.13%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.13%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.13%) French Language
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) Communications Manager
2 5 (15.63%) Engagement Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior SQL Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Implementation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 3 (9.38%) .NET
3 2 (6.25%) 802.1X
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Molecular Biology
2 6 (18.75%) Life Science
3 5 (15.63%) Social Media
4 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 4 (12.50%) Omics
5 3 (9.38%) NHS
6 2 (6.25%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
6 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
6 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 2 (6.25%) PKI
6 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (3.13%) Genomics
7 1 (3.13%) LIMS
7 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Windows
3 2 (6.25%) Android
3 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) Bioinformatics
1 10 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (28.13%) Commercialisation
2 9 (28.13%) Disruptive Innovation
2 9 (28.13%) Informatics
3 7 (21.88%) Computational Biology
3 7 (21.88%) Project Management
3 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
4 6 (18.75%) Biomedicine
4 6 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (15.63%) Deep Learning
5 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (12.50%) Biotechnology
6 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Ontologies
6 4 (12.50%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Java
5 3 (9.38%) Go
6 2 (6.25%) C#
6 2 (6.25%) C++
6 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.25%) Ruby
7 1 (3.13%) C
7 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Master's Degree
3 5 (15.63%) PhD
4 3 (9.38%) Postgraduate
5 2 (6.25%) CCIE
5 2 (6.25%) CCNP
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GMP
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 13485
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 2 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
1 1 (3.13%) Google