The first table below looks at the demand for Bioinformatics skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Bioinformatics over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bioinformatics
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Bioinformatics 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £33,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-9.09% -26.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
787 965 1220
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 74.46% 72.01% 79.12%
Number of salaries quoted 463 681 859
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,700 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Bioinformatics
Scotland

Bioinformatics
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Bioinformatics across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh Bioinformatics Jobs Demand Trend

Bioinformatics
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Bioinformatics across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Bioinformatics Salary Trend

Bioinformatics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Bioinformatics also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Bioinformatics.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) Informatics
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing

Bioinformatics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Bioinformatics also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Bioinformatics. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat