Where a biology technician can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a biology technician already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Biology technicians provide technical assistance in researching and analysing the relationship between living organisms and their environment. They use laboratory equipment to examine organic substances such as bodily fluids, medicines, plants and food. They collect and analyse data for experiments, compile reports and maintain laboratory stock.
Also known as biologist, marine biologist, biology laboratory technician, animal technician, biological technologist, life sciences technician, wildlife technician, biology lab technician, marine biology technician, mammalogy technician, animal lab technician, wildlife laboratory technician.
Technicians and associate professionals 51 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: botanical technician, 75%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A biology technician needs 22 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- perform stem cell transplantation assisting and caring
- use laboratory equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- laboratory equipment natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- computational biology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation information skills
- stem cells natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- cryopreservation natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- collect biological data information skills
- life sciences natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- analyse experimental laboratory data information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a biology technician does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- bacteriology technician 73% covered · difficulty 34.7
- zoology technician 72% covered · difficulty 35.5
- biochemistry technician 70% covered · difficulty 37.8
- botanical technician 64% covered · difficulty 44.5
- biologist 56% covered · difficulty 52.3
- scientific laboratory technician 44% covered · difficulty 62.1
- biotechnical technician 41% covered · difficulty 65.2
- medical laboratory assistant 33% covered · difficulty 70.4
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Biology technician is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a biology technician’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.