Health Informatics Contracts

Healthcare Informatics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Health Informatics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Health Informatics over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 665 800
Rank change year-on-year +95 +135 -144
Contract jobs citing Health Informatics 9 35 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.058% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.065% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 12
10th Percentile £269 £144 £229
25th Percentile £357 £150 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +29.03% -8.82%
75th Percentile £448 £606 £480
90th Percentile £502 £803 £558
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £650 £388
% change year-on-year -43.46% +67.74% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.17 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.17 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Health Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Health Informatics.

Daily rate trend for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Health Informatics over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Health Informatics.

Hourly rate trend for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Health Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +91 8 £413 -17.50% 4
UK excluding London +55 6 £368 -43.46% 4
London +106 3 £413 +175.00%
Work from Home +112 2 £210 -58.00% 2
East Midlands +21 2 - -
Midlands +17 2 - -
East of England - 2 £525 -
North of England +21 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +20 1 - -
Wales - 1 £210 -

Health Informatics
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 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Health
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (11.11%) Military
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Head of Information
1 2 (22.22%) Head of Information Services
1 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (11.11%) NHS Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (22.22%) FHIR
2 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) NHS
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) e-Health
2 2 (22.22%) LIMS
2 2 (22.22%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Informatics
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) API Testing
3 2 (22.22%) BDD
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) ePrescribing
3 2 (22.22%) Information Management
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Management
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
3 2 (22.22%) SOA
3 2 (22.22%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (22.22%) TDD
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) HL7
2 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle