Hire biotech researchers in the UK
Biotechnology Jobs is the UK board for scientists and engineers in genomics, cell and gene therapy, bioprocessing and the computational work underneath them. Advertise a role to people who work at the bench and pay a fixed price once.
- What it costs
- From £99 for a 30-day listing. Pay once — no subscription, no recruiter fee, no percentage of salary.
- How fast it goes live
- One working day. A person reads every advert before it publishes, usually within a couple of hours.
- Who reads it
- Research and process scientists, bioinformaticians and computational biologists, QA and regulatory specialists — from the Golden Triangle's start-ups to established manufacturers. Most are employed and read this board to see which companies have moved from science to product.
- What it is not
- A CV database you rent, or an agency taking a fee on the hire. You post the role; candidates come to you.
Already written the advert somewhere else?
Paste the link and we pull the title, salary, location and description into a draft. Nothing publishes and nothing is charged until you say so.
Write the advert from scratchNot hiring yet? Start with how to hire biotech scientists in the UK — what the roles are, what they pay, and how to write an advert that gets answered.
There are three ways to fill a BioTech role. We are honest about being one of them.
Biotech hiring is about regulated experience — GMP, GLP, a therapy area — and a route that cannot filter for it returns people who have never worked under those rules. Here is the short version, including where a board is the wrong tool.
A specialist board
You are hereFixed, from £99 per role
You know roughly who you want, the salary is competitive, and you want the applications to land in your own inbox or ATS.
You need someone headhunted out of a named competitor, or the role is confidential.
A generalist platform
Per-click or per-slot, unbounded
Volume roles where reach matters more than fit, and hiring for functions outside engineering at the same time.
Regulated and lab-based roles. A generalist site returns graduates and career-changers by the hundred, and the scientist with three years of GMP behind them is one application among them.
A recruitment agency
Typically 15–25% of first-year salary
Heads of function, senior regulatory and clinical hires, and any search for a specific therapy-area background where people are approached rather than advertised to.
Roles you can attract directly. On a £90k salary the fee is most of a hiring budget.
Who actually reads this board
A smaller audience than a generalist site, and one that reads the regulatory detail. People arrive here because they work in biotech and want to see who is hiring in genomics, cell therapy, bioprocess and bioinformatics this month — and whether the role is discovery, development or manufacturing.
Who we have on the board
Each one opens the live roles for it on Biotechnology Jobs.
Seniority mix of live roles
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Graduate and entry 2%
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Junior 0%
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Mid-level 14%
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Senior and staff 24%
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Lead and principal 13%
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Head of and director 48%
Where they are
Location pages carry the local salary picture and the companies hiring there.
How the live roles are worked
How the advert reaches them
- Search and Google Jobs
- Every listing is structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board, so it keeps working for the whole run.
- Saved alerts
- Candidates subscribe to a specialism, a salary floor and a location. Matching roles email out as they publish.
- The weekly digest
- One email, curated, read by people who are not actively applying yet — which is where most senior candidates sit.
- The rest of the network
- Add any of the other fifteen boards for +£75 each. Only worth it where the field genuinely overlaps.
Hiring now
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GSK 75 open roles
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Moderna 36 open roles
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Isomorphic Labs 24 open roles
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CSL 20 open roles
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Roche 14 open roles
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Recursion 9 open roles
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Autolus 4 open roles
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Newton Colmore 4 open roles
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Adecco 2 open roles
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University of Cambridge 2 open roles
Companies with at least one active listing on Biotechnology Jobs.
What BioTech roles pay in the UK
Built from the salaries stated in live adverts on this board, not a survey — the range employers are advertising, and its midpoint.
Biotech pay tracks regulated experience and the stage of the company more than the title. An advert that names the band, the stage and the therapy area draws the people who have worked at that stage; one that hides the number reads as a company still raising the money to pay it.
All UK BioTech salary benchmarks, coming soon
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Regulatory Affairs Specialist Jobs (Biotech)
Regulatory Affairs Specialist Jobs (Biotech) jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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£48k | £65k |
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Research Scientist Jobs (Biotech)
Research Scientist Jobs (Biotech) jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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£50k | £78k |
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Bioinformatician
Bioinformatician jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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Bioprocess Engineer
Bioprocess Engineer jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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Biostatistician
Biostatistician jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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Cell Therapy Scientist
Cell Therapy Scientist jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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Clinical Research Associate
Clinical Research Associate jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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Gene Therapy Scientist
Gene Therapy Scientist jobs on Biotechnology Jobs
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From live adverts on this board · rows link to the role
Everything we know about hiring in UK biotech, written down
How to hire biotech scientists in the UK
Bench, computational and clinical roles are three separate markets with different pools and different geography. What each one actually needs, and the two constraints that decide your shortlist before salary does.
GxP experience, and what it costs to ask for it
GMP, GLP and GCP are not interchangeable, and requiring the wrong one — or any of them, when the work is discovery — removes most of the people who could do the job.
The other fifteen boards
Cloud, cyber, data engineering, biotech and the rest — where an adjacent board is worth adding and where it is not.
From £99 a role. Paid once.
Three tiers and three durations, priced up front. Extra boards are +£75 each and only worth adding where the field overlaps — we will tell you when it does not.
In every listing, including the cheapest one
- A person reviews the advert before it publishes
- Structured for Google Jobs and indexed on the board
- Emailed to matching alert subscribers
- Applications to your inbox or straight into your ATS
- Live for 30 days, extendable
- No subscription and no auto-renewal
If it does not perform
Every listing carries an application benchmark set from the role itself — pay, contract type, working pattern. Come in under it and we extend the run and re-promote the role at no charge. It is in the terms, not a goodwill gesture.
Hiring several roles, or running an agency desk?
Bundles across roles and boards, and automatic ingestion from your ATS or a feed so nothing is re-keyed.
Works with your ATS
Send applications straight into it, or let us pull your open roles from it — and send candidates straight back.
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Ashby
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Greenhouse
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Lever
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Workable
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Personio
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BambooHR
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Rippling
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Workday
Not listed? We can usually build a connector in about a week — tell us about your ATS.
Put the role in front of people who work at the bench.
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