Bioinformatics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bioinformatics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bioinformatics over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 852 929 979
Rank change year-on-year +77 +50 -129
Permanent jobs citing Bioinformatics 50 43 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.042% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.044% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 4
10th Percentile - - £50,750
25th Percentile £54,752 £43,125 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.93% -44.55% +37.68%
75th Percentile £80,313 £67,500 £98,125
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,250 £112,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £45,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +69.40% +1.67% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bioinformatics.

Salary trend for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bioinformatics over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bioinformatics within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +100 40 £75,000 +63.93% 32
UK excluding London +16 36 £77,500 +69.40% 17
Work from Home +98 33 £75,000 +15.38% 15
South East +6 13 £41,500 -46.45% 10
East of England +28 12 £77,500 - 9
London +99 9 £75,000 +11.11% 16
North of England - 6 - - 3
North West - 4 - - 1
Scotland - 4 - - 1
North East - 2 - - 2
Wales - 1 - -

Bioinformatics
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 1 (2.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) Azure
1 5 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (8.00%) Dagster
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (4.00%) AWS
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Snakemake
2 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Electronics
5 2 (4.00%) Legal
5 2 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.00%) French Language
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) Senior
2 16 (32.00%) Developer
3 15 (30.00%) Software Developer
4 10 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 10 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 9 (18.00%) Data Scientist
5 9 (18.00%) Lead
5 9 (18.00%) Lead Data Scientist
5 9 (18.00%) Principal Data Scientist
5 9 (18.00%) Senior Data Scientist
5 9 (18.00%) Team Leader
6 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 2 (4.00%) Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Manager
9 1 (2.00%) Senior Project Manager
9 1 (2.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) STL
3 1 (2.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Life Science
2 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.00%) Omics
3 3 (6.00%) Genomics
3 3 (6.00%) NHS
4 2 (4.00%) iPad
4 2 (4.00%) Molecular Biology
5 1 (2.00%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) Data Science
2 23 (46.00%) Informatics
2 23 (46.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (32.00%) Biotechnology
4 14 (28.00%) Machine Learning
5 10 (20.00%) Biology
6 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.00%) Line Management
7 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
8 7 (14.00%) Computational Biology
9 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (12.00%) DevOps
10 5 (10.00%) Architectural Design
10 5 (10.00%) BDD
10 5 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (10.00%) Deep Learning
10 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (10.00%) TDD
11 4 (8.00%) Containerisation
11 4 (8.00%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) Python
2 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.00%) Ruby
4 4 (8.00%) Bash
5 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (46.00%) Degree
2 21 (42.00%) PhD
3 14 (28.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GLP
1 2 (4.00%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform