LIMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term LIMS in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LIMS over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 426 456
Rank change year-on-year +68 +30 -40
Contract jobs citing LIMS 31 28 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.52% 0.37% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 25
10th Percentile £303 £209 £248
25th Percentile £428 £223 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £320 £400
Median % change year-on-year +64.06% -20.00% -8.78%
75th Percentile £563 £388 £523
90th Percentile £566 £403 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +61.54% -27.78% -11.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £5.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £5.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

LIMS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,921 7,551 9,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.12% 32.43% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,554 5,080 6,776
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 425 464
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.38
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £46.21
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.60 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%

LIMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LIMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LIMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LIMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LIMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LIMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wales +30 12 £535 +42.67% 1
South East +25 10 £450 +40.63% 2
East of England +17 4 £525 +133.33% 7
North of England +23 3 £363 +61.11% 11
North West +26 2 £350 - 5
East Midlands +16 1 - - 2
Midlands +13 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 5
South West - 1 £215 - 5
LIMS
UK

LIMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) AWS
1 1 (3.23%) Azure
1 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) DHCP
1 1 (3.23%) DNS
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) NetScaler
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
1 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
2 8 (25.81%) Electronics
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Manufacturing
2 8 (25.81%) Marketing
2 8 (25.81%) Telecoms
3 4 (12.90%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Back Office
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Lead
2 8 (25.81%) LIMS Manager
2 8 (25.81%) LIMS Project Manager
2 8 (25.81%) Project Manager
3 6 (19.35%) Configuration Specialist
4 4 (12.90%) Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Business Systems Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) LIMS Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) LIMS Support
6 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Systems Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) CSS
1 1 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) NHS
2 9 (29.03%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.90%) Life Science
4 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) e-Health
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
1 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Change Management
1 12 (38.71%) Information Management
1 12 (38.71%) Service Management
2 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (25.81%) Digital Marketing
3 8 (25.81%) Programme Management
3 8 (25.81%) Test Scripting
3 8 (25.81%) Test Strategy
3 8 (25.81%) Validation
4 1 (3.23%) Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) Coaching
4 1 (3.23%) Customer Service
4 1 (3.23%) Data Migration
4 1 (3.23%) Database Migration
4 1 (3.23%) DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) ePrescribing
4 1 (3.23%) Health Informatics
4 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (3.23%) Mentoring
4 1 (3.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.23%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (29.03%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.23%) vSphere
1 1 (3.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) InterSystems
2 8 (25.81%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Aruba
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Citrix
3 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.23%) HP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) NetApp
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Sophos
3 1 (3.23%) VMware