The first table below looks at the demand for Bioinformatics skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Bioinformatics over the 3 months to 22 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bioinformatics
Rank 808 846 805
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -41
Permanent jobs citing Bioinformatics 32 26 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.023% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.030% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 6
Average salary £27,500 £40,000 £36,054
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.25% +10.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,795 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £55,000 £48,750
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £34,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-4.41% -24.44%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
77891 86068 85027
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.57% 74.71% 73.45%
Number of salaries quoted 64634 73676 71655
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Bioinformatics
UK

Bioinformatics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England Bioinformatics Salary Trend

Bioinformatics
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Bioinformatics across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Bioinformatics Salary Histogram

Bioinformatics
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bioinformatics within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +20 24 £27,500 -21.42%
East of England +9 4 £42,500 +29.46%
Yorkshire - 3 £32,500 -
North West - 1 £32,500 -
Bioinformatics
UK

Bioinformatics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 70 (84.34%) Pharmaceutical
2 61 (73.49%) PhD
3 53 (63.86%) Life Science
4 52 (62.65%) Chemistry
5 50 (60.24%) Biology
6 45 (54.22%) Java
7 39 (46.99%) Data Management
7 39 (46.99%) MS Excel
8 33 (39.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 33 (39.76%) GxP
9 32 (38.55%) Oracle
9 32 (38.55%) Biotechnology
10 30 (36.14%) PL/SQL
10 30 (36.14%) SQL
11 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
12 26 (31.33%) LIMS
12 26 (31.33%) Validation
12 26 (31.33%) Software Deployment
13 25 (30.12%) Manufacturing
14 24 (28.92%) Enterprise Architecture
15 21 (25.30%) Python
16 20 (24.10%) Web Services
17 19 (22.89%) Windows
17 19 (22.89%) Enterprise Software
18 16 (19.28%) Mathematics
18 16 (19.28%) R
19 14 (16.87%) Linux
20 12 (14.46%) MySQL
21 11 (13.25%) MATLAB
22 10 (12.05%) Mac OS X

Bioinformatics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 20 (24.10%) Web Services
2 9 (10.84%) jBPM
3 7 (8.434%) Natural Language Processing
4 6 (7.229%) REST
4 6 (7.229%) .NET
4 6 (7.229%) J2EE
4 6 (7.229%) HTML
4 6 (7.229%) XML
5 5 (6.024%) SWT
6 2 (2.410%) SciPy
6 2 (2.410%) NumPy
7 1 (1.205%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (1.205%) COM
7 1 (1.205%) STL
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.229%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.024%) Apache
2 5 (6.024%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.205%) MediaWiki
3 1 (1.205%) CloudStack
3 1 (1.205%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 39 (46.99%) MS Excel
2 9 (10.84%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (7.229%) MS Office
4 1 (1.205%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.639%) HTTPS
2 6 (7.229%) HTTP
2 6 (7.229%) SAN
3 1 (1.205%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.205%) NAS
3 1 (1.205%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.205%) SNMP
3 1 (1.205%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.205%) DNS
3 1 (1.205%) DHCP
3 1 (1.205%) FTP
3 1 (1.205%) LAN
3 1 (1.205%) WAN
3 1 (1.205%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) MySQL
2 7 (8.434%) Text Mining
3 6 (7.229%) Big Data
4 1 (1.205%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.205%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (7.229%) QuickTest Pro
1 6 (7.229%) Selenium
1 6 (7.229%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (7.229%) JMeter
2 5 (6.024%) Subversion
3 1 (1.205%) SCons
3 1 (1.205%) GoogleTest
3 1 (1.205%) CMake
3 1 (1.205%) Bugzilla
3 1 (1.205%) GCC
3 1 (1.205%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.205%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.205%) JUnit
3 1 (1.205%) Eclipse
General
1 70 (84.34%) Pharmaceutical
2 25 (30.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (50.60%) Consultant
2 17 (20.48%) Developer
3 11 (13.25%) Software Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Training Consultant
4 9 (10.84%) Java Software Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Trainer
5 7 (8.434%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.434%) Administrator
6 6 (7.229%) Tester
6 6 (7.229%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (7.229%) Software Tester
7 5 (6.024%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 5 (6.024%) UNIX Administrator
8 4 (4.819%) Analyst
8 4 (4.819%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.614%) IT Manager
10 1 (1.205%) Senior Software Developer
10 1 (1.205%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 1 (1.205%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 53 (63.86%) Life Science
2 52 (62.65%) Chemistry
3 50 (60.24%) Biology
4 32 (38.55%) Biotechnology
5 26 (31.33%) LIMS
6 19 (22.89%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (19.28%) Mathematics
8 10 (12.05%) Grid Computing
9 9 (10.84%) Ontologies
10 7 (8.434%) Open Source
11 6 (7.229%) SaaS
11 6 (7.229%) Semantic Web
12 5 (6.024%) Informatics
12 5 (6.024%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (3.614%) Computer Science
14 2 (2.410%) Statistics
14 2 (2.410%) Neural Network
14 2 (2.410%) Machine Learning
15 1 (1.205%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
15 1 (1.205%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.89%) Windows
2 14 (16.87%) Linux
3 10 (12.05%) Mac OS X
4 7 (8.434%) UNIX
5 6 (7.229%) Solaris
6 1 (1.205%) Scientific Linux
6 1 (1.205%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (1.205%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.99%) Data Management
2 26 (31.33%) Validation
2 26 (31.33%) Software Deployment
3 24 (28.92%) Enterprise Architecture
4 10 (12.05%) OO
4 10 (12.05%) Workflow
5 9 (10.84%) Business Development
6 8 (9.639%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (8.434%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (8.434%) OOD
8 6 (7.229%) Analytics
8 6 (7.229%) B2B
9 3 (3.614%) DNA
10 2 (2.410%) Statistical Modelling
11 1 (1.205%) Automated Testing
11 1 (1.205%) Software Engineering
11 1 (1.205%) Statistical Analysis
11 1 (1.205%) Data Analysis
11 1 (1.205%) TDD
11 1 (1.205%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.22%) Java
2 30 (36.14%) PL/SQL
2 30 (36.14%) SQL
3 21 (25.30%) Python
4 16 (19.28%) R
5 11 (13.25%) MATLAB
6 7 (8.434%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.024%) PHP
8 4 (4.819%) Perl
9 2 (2.410%) C++
10 1 (1.205%) Ruby
10 1 (1.205%) C
10 1 (1.205%) C#
Qualifications
1 61 (73.49%) PhD
2 9 (10.84%) CIPD
3 6 (7.229%) ISEB
3 6 (7.229%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (39.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 33 (39.76%) GxP
2 6 (7.229%) GLP
System Software
1 1 (1.205%) Xen
1 1 (1.205%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.205%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.205%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (7.229%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.205%) Puppet
2 1 (1.205%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 32 (38.55%) Oracle
2 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.410%) Google
4 1 (1.205%) VMware
4 1 (1.205%) Isilon
4 1 (1.205%) Citrix
4 1 (1.205%) HP
4 1 (1.205%) EMC
4 1 (1.205%) Cisco
Hinxton near Cambridge, UK
Head of Technical Services Location: EMBL-EBI - Hinxton near Cambridge, UKStaff Category: Staff MemberContract Duration: 3 yearsGrading: 10Closing Date: 04 June 2013Reference number: EBI_00296Job DescriptionPart of the European...
EMBL
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
We are seeking an experienced bioinformatician/programmer with a strong biological interest, or a biologist with extensive experience in bioinformatics... The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute plays a central...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Salary: £29750 - £37525 per annum + plus excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Client Liaison Scientist - Bioinformatics / Mathematics; Genetics; Analysis; Customer-facing... - Demonstrable scripting experience using Perl or Python on UNIX / Linux... - Experience with open-source bioinformatics tools and applied statistics.
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Excellent + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Essential Skills You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Salary: £36825 - £46850 per annum + plus excellent benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You will have an in depth knowledge of linux clustering, preferably within in a HPC / scientific environment... You should also have knowledge of high performance parallel filesystems (lustre,...
Sanger Institute
Salary: From £36,825 to £46,850 per annum dependent on experience plus excelle
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
computer science, bioinformatics, mathematics etc - Cloud platforms integration. - HTTP protocols and XML - Scripting languages such as Python, Perl and JavaScript... - Any understanding of big data or OO programming...
ComputerWorld Personnel Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + 25 days holiday
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Algorithms Developer - C++, STL, Perl / Python, Machine Learning / Statistics / Pattern Recognition, Data Analysis, Bioinformatics... Advanced degrees (Masters or PhD is highly desirable)... - Practical experience in C++ (ideally using...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Excellent + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
South Cambridge, East Anglia
Computational Scientist - Image analysis, Signal processing, Statistical inference, Algorithm development, C / C++ / C#, machine learning... - Strong scientific software development experience in C, C++ or C#. Scripting experience with...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Excellent + benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Saffron Walden, Essex
C#, WPF and Python development. STL and/or Boost... Qualifications: The candidate should have a good university degree in a technical subject (Software Engineering, Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Mathematics,...
Illumina
Salary: From £28,000 to £38,000 per annum + pension, company shares, private h
Posted: 9 May 2013
Saffron Walden, Essex
Experience with HPC, distributed computing and large datasets (Big Data) A solid degree in Computer Science or related discipline... WISA) or Linux (e.g. LAMP). Pick your choice...
Illumina
Salary: From £38,000 to £45,000 per annum package inclusive of shares, pension
Posted: 9 May 2013