Bioinformatics Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Bioinformatics skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Bioinformatics over the 3 months to 24 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.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Bioinformatics
Rank 828 871 847
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -24
Permanent jobs citing Bioinformatics 34 28 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.031% 0.023% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.031% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 19 23 6
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £36,054
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +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 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -22.22%
Search 12 Bioinformatics jobs
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 82549 90051 91603
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.38% 74.62% 73.63%
Number of salaries quoted 67666 76516 76773
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

Bioinformatics
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bioinformatics Jobs Demand Trend

Bioinformatics
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Bioinformatics within the UK.

Bioinformatics Salary Trend

Bioinformatics
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Bioinformatics over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Bioinformatics Salary Histogram

Bioinformatics
Top 12 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England +30 32 £27,500 -31.25%
Surrey +23 24 £27,500 -50.00%
South East +16 24 £27,500 -21.42%
Cambridgeshire +12 4 £42,500 +29.46%
East of England +3 4 £42,500 +29.46%
Cambridge 0 4 £42,500 +29.46%
Wakefield - 3 £32,500 -
Yorkshire - 3 £32,500 -
West Yorkshire - 3 £32,500 -
North West - 1 £32,500 -
Cheshire - 1 £32,500 -
Macclesfield - 1 £32,500 -

Bioinformatics
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 67 (80.72%) Pharmaceutical
2 60 (72.29%) PhD
3 52 (62.65%) Life Science
4 50 (60.24%) Chemistry
5 48 (57.83%) Biology
6 43 (51.81%) Java
7 38 (45.78%) MS Excel
8 37 (44.58%) Data Management
9 32 (38.55%) Biotechnology
10 31 (37.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 31 (37.35%) GxP
11 30 (36.14%) Oracle
12 29 (34.94%) SQL
13 28 (33.73%) PL/SQL
14 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
15 25 (30.12%) LIMS
15 25 (30.12%) Validation
15 25 (30.12%) Software Deployment
16 24 (28.92%) Manufacturing
17 22 (26.51%) Enterprise Architecture
17 22 (26.51%) Python
18 20 (24.10%) Windows
19 19 (22.89%) Web Services
19 19 (22.89%) Enterprise Software
20 16 (19.28%) Linux
21 15 (18.07%) R
22 14 (16.87%) Mathematics
23 12 (14.46%) MySQL
23 12 (14.46%) MATLAB
24 10 (12.05%) Mac OS X

Bioinformatics
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 19 (22.89%) Web Services
2 9 (10.84%) jBPM
3 6 (7.229%) Natural Language Processing
3 6 (7.229%) .NET
3 6 (7.229%) J2EE
4 5 (6.024%) SWT
4 5 (6.024%) XML
4 5 (6.024%) HTML
4 5 (6.024%) REST
5 2 (2.410%) SciPy
5 2 (2.410%) NumPy
6 1 (1.205%) CSS3
6 1 (1.205%) HTML5
6 1 (1.205%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 1 (1.205%) Spring
6 1 (1.205%) LAMP
6 1 (1.205%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.205%) Grails
6 1 (1.205%) Django
6 1 (1.205%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.024%) SharePoint
1 5 (6.024%) Apache
1 5 (6.024%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.205%) CloudStack
2 1 (1.205%) MediaWiki
2 1 (1.205%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (1.205%) Zope
Applications
1 38 (45.78%) MS Excel
2 9 (10.84%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (7.229%) MS Office
4 1 (1.205%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.434%) HTTPS
2 6 (7.229%) SAN
3 5 (6.024%) HTTP
4 1 (1.205%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.205%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.205%) NAS
4 1 (1.205%) DHCP
4 1 (1.205%) FTP
4 1 (1.205%) SNMP
4 1 (1.205%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.205%) DNS
4 1 (1.205%) LAN
4 1 (1.205%) WAN
4 1 (1.205%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.46%) MySQL
2 6 (7.229%) Big Data
2 6 (7.229%) Text Mining
3 1 (1.205%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.205%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.205%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (7.229%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (7.229%) QuickTest Pro
1 6 (7.229%) Selenium
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%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.205%) GCC
3 1 (1.205%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.205%) Mercurial
3 1 (1.205%) Bugzilla
3 1 (1.205%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.205%) JUnit
3 1 (1.205%) Eclipse
General
1 67 (80.72%) Pharmaceutical
2 24 (28.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (48.19%) 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%) Administrator
6 6 (7.229%) Tester
6 6 (7.229%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (7.229%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.229%) Software Tester
7 5 (6.024%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 5 (6.024%) UNIX Administrator
7 5 (6.024%) Analyst
8 4 (4.819%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.614%) IT Manager
10 2 (2.410%) Software Engineer
11 1 (1.205%) Linux Administrator
11 1 (1.205%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 52 (62.65%) Life Science
2 50 (60.24%) Chemistry
3 48 (57.83%) Biology
4 32 (38.55%) Biotechnology
5 25 (30.12%) LIMS
6 19 (22.89%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (16.87%) Mathematics
8 10 (12.05%) Grid Computing
9 9 (10.84%) Ontologies
10 7 (8.434%) Open Source
11 6 (7.229%) Semantic Web
11 6 (7.229%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (7.229%) Informatics
12 5 (6.024%) Computer Science
12 5 (6.024%) SaaS
13 2 (2.410%) Neural Network
13 2 (2.410%) Statistics
13 2 (2.410%) Machine Learning
14 1 (1.205%) Visualisation
14 1 (1.205%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.10%) Windows
2 16 (19.28%) 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 37 (44.58%) Data Management
2 25 (30.12%) Validation
2 25 (30.12%) Software Deployment
3 22 (26.51%) Enterprise Architecture
4 10 (12.05%) OO
4 10 (12.05%) Workflow
5 8 (9.639%) Business Development
5 8 (9.639%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (7.229%) OOD
6 6 (7.229%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (6.024%) B2B
7 5 (6.024%) Analytics
8 4 (4.819%) DNA
9 3 (3.614%) Software Engineering
10 2 (2.410%) Data Analysis
10 2 (2.410%) Statistical Modelling
11 1 (1.205%) Software Architecture
11 1 (1.205%) Multithreading
11 1 (1.205%) Test Automation
11 1 (1.205%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (51.81%) Java
2 29 (34.94%) SQL
3 28 (33.73%) PL/SQL
4 22 (26.51%) Python
5 15 (18.07%) R
6 12 (14.46%) MATLAB
7 7 (8.434%) JavaScript
8 6 (7.229%) PHP
9 5 (6.024%) Perl
10 4 (4.819%) C++
11 3 (3.614%) C#
12 2 (2.410%) Ruby
13 1 (1.205%) C
Qualifications
1 60 (72.29%) PhD
2 9 (10.84%) CIPD
3 7 (8.434%) Degree
4 6 (7.229%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (37.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 31 (37.35%) GxP
2 6 (7.229%) GLP
System Software
1 1 (1.205%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.205%) Xen
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 30 (36.14%) Oracle
2 27 (32.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.410%) Google
4 1 (1.205%) Isilon
4 1 (1.205%) VMware
4 1 (1.205%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.205%) Citrix
4 1 (1.205%) Cisco
4 1 (1.205%) HP
4 1 (1.205%) EMC
Head of Technical Services - 3 years fixed contract
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: 24 May 2013
Senior Bioinformatician - Mouse Informatics Group
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: 24 May 2013
Client Liaison Scientist - Bioinformatics / Mathematics; PhD; Genetics / Sequencing; Cambridge, £Excellent + benefits
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
Principal Systems Administrator
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: 24 May 2013
Principal Systems Administrator
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
Algorithm Developer - 1st / 2.1, C++, STL, Perl / Python, Algorithms, Statistics, Maths, Cambridge, £Excellent + Bonus + Benefits
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
Computational Scientist - Image Analysis / Statistical Inference; Algorithms; C / C++ / C#; South Cambridge, £Excellent + Benefits
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
Software Developer (Life Science Applications)
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
Web Developer (Life Science Applications)
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
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