Informatics Contracts

Informatics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Informatics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Informatics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 642 710
Rank change year-on-year +74 +68 -85
Contract jobs citing Informatics 30 77 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 37 70
10th Percentile £209 £156 £223
25th Percentile £275 £180 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £270 £388
Median % change year-on-year +44.35% -30.32% -13.89%
75th Percentile £512 £538 £538
90th Percentile £559 £635 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £306 £208 £365
% change year-on-year +47.17% -42.95% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £18.03 £24.06 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £24.16 -
Median hourly rate £24.65 £24.63 £8.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% +207.81% -87.88%
75th Percentile £26.98 £25.41 -
90th Percentile - £25.69 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.65 £24.63 £8.00
% change year-on-year +0.10% +207.81% -87.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
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 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Informatics over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +90 29 £413 +34.36% 27
UK excluding London +41 21 £306 +47.17% 17
Work from Home +119 9 £337 -32.65% 9
London +86 8 £413 +34.36% 7
North of England +31 7 £373 -37.86% 5
Midlands +12 7 - - 4
East of England +17 6 £306 +6.61% 3
North West +14 6 £373 -37.86% 4
West Midlands +30 5 - - 4
East Midlands +17 2 - -
Yorkshire +20 1 - -
Wales +12 1 £210 +16.67%

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 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) IIS
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP MDG
2 1 (3.33%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DHCP
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
1 2 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) JMeter
1 2 (6.67%) JUnit
1 2 (6.67%) Postman
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
1 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Finance
4 5 (16.67%) German Language
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Legal
5 2 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Publishing
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Health
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Military
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Data Manager
2 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Head of Information
4 2 (6.67%) Analytics Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Applications Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Data Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (6.67%) EPR Project Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Governance Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Head of Information Services
4 2 (6.67%) SAP Data Manager
4 2 (6.67%) SAP Manager
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) CSS
1 3 (10.00%) HTML
1 3 (10.00%) XML
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) FHIR
2 2 (6.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (6.67%) JSON
2 2 (6.67%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) NHS
2 6 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 5 (16.67%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (16.67%) IoT
3 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.67%) e-Health
4 2 (6.67%) LIMS
4 2 (6.67%) PACS
5 1 (3.33%) Genomics
5 1 (3.33%) Life Science
5 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Health Informatics
2 7 (23.33%) Agile
2 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
3 6 (20.00%) Project Management
4 5 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 5 (16.67%) CAFM
4 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 5 (16.67%) Digital Enablement
4 5 (16.67%) Energy Management
4 5 (16.67%) Process Management
5 4 (13.33%) Analytics
5 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 4 (13.33%) Data Management
5 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
5 4 (13.33%) Data Science
5 4 (13.33%) Migration
6 3 (10.00%) Change Management
6 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) PhD
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.33%) MCP
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) HL7
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) SAP
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle