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Principal Scientist, Immunology

Hays • Oxford, Oxfordshire

Salary

£91k – £143k

Posted

19 October 2026

Sponsor match

high

Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)

Role overview

Hays is hiring a Principal Scientist, Immunology in Oxford, a scientific & qa role. The advertised salary is £91k – £143k. Hays holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

Your new company You'll be joining a global biopharmaceutical organisation developing novel biologic therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. You'll work within a collaborative research team applying advanced cellular immunology to progress new targets and therapeutic programmes through preclinical discovery. Your new role As a Principal Scientist, you will combine scientific leadership with hands-on immunology expertise to support biologics discovery programmes. This is a key resear…

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Visa sponsorship snapshot

Employer: Hays — confirmed licensed sponsor
Visa route: Skilled Worker
Advertised salary: £91k – £143k
How this salary compares: about 248% above the £41,068 median across 1,254 scientific & qa roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire
Similar roles nearby: 23 other live scientific & qa roles in Oxford — browse them
Posted: 19 October 2026
How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.

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Scientific and quality assurance roles span pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical research, and laboratory sectors. The UK life sciences industry actively recruits internationally for research scientists, QA managers, regulatory affairs specialists, and clinical trial coordinators, with many employers maintaining well-established sponsor licence operations.