Informatics
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 790 890 658
Rank change year-on-year +100 -232 +140
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 87 88 670
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.085% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.089% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 42 53 92
10th Percentile £36,345 £26,250 £27,125
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,067 £37,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £48,402 £49,584
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -2.38% -20.67%
75th Percentile £64,393 £60,000 £69,625
90th Percentile £84,767 £92,132 £88,829
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £43,067 £42,500
% change year-on-year +27.71% +1.33% -34.62%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Informatics over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +91 73 £47,500 -1.86% 33
UK excluding London +2 55 £55,000 +27.71% 22
Work from Home +88 36 £54,000 +11.57% 10
London +125 25 £54,000 -4.85% 8
South East +30 19 £58,125 +118.11% 6
East of England +23 13 £47,500 - 6
Scotland -49 8 £60,000 +20.00%
Midlands +11 7 £61,439 +75.54% 6
North of England +44 6 - - 3
North West +5 5 - - 2
East Midlands -11 5 £61,439 - 1
West Midlands +24 2 - - 5
Wales +7 1 - -
South West -43 1 £39,005 -12.67% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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 (2.30%) Alfresco
1 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.30%) Captiva
1 2 (2.30%) Documentum
1 2 (2.30%) Luigi
1 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (12.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.15%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.09%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.20%) AWS
2 8 (9.20%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) Azure Machine Learning
3 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (5.75%) SaaS
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (2.30%) GCP
4 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) LAN
2 2 (2.30%) BGP
2 2 (2.30%) DHCP
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) Network Security
2 2 (2.30%) OSPF
2 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
2 2 (2.30%) SSL
2 2 (2.30%) VPN
2 2 (2.30%) VXLAN
2 2 (2.30%) WAN
2 2 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.30%) Wireless
3 1 (1.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) Power BI
2 9 (10.34%) Big Data
2 9 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.05%) Metadata
4 6 (6.90%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.60%) MySQL
5 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
6 3 (3.45%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.45%) SQLite
7 2 (2.30%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.30%) EDMS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.15%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 27 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Pharmaceutical
4 10 (11.49%) Electronics
4 10 (11.49%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.05%) Finance
7 5 (5.75%) Marketing
8 4 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.60%) Tech for Good
9 3 (3.45%) Banking
9 3 (3.45%) Law
9 3 (3.45%) Legal
10 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (1.15%) Games
11 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Publishing
11 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Senior
2 17 (19.54%) Developer
2 17 (19.54%) Software Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Senior Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Senior Software Developer
4 10 (11.49%) Consultant
4 10 (11.49%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Analyst
5 7 (8.05%) Associate Consultant
5 7 (8.05%) ERP Consultant
5 7 (8.05%) IT Consultant
6 4 (4.60%) .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.60%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Implementation Consultant
7 3 (3.45%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (3.45%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) REST
1 7 (8.05%) SOAP
2 5 (5.75%) .NET
2 5 (5.75%) FHIR
3 4 (4.60%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.30%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.15%) JSON
6 1 (1.15%) NumPy
6 1 (1.15%) Pandas
6 1 (1.15%) pyodbc
6 1 (1.15%) PyQt
6 1 (1.15%) SAML
6 1 (1.15%) STL
6 1 (1.15%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) Management Information System
2 13 (14.94%) Life Science
3 11 (12.64%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (12.64%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (11.49%) Algorithms
5 9 (10.34%) Molecular Biology
6 5 (5.75%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (5.75%) SCADA
6 5 (5.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (4.60%) LIMS
8 3 (3.45%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
8 3 (3.45%) Driving Licence
8 3 (3.45%) Learning Management System
8 3 (3.45%) NHS
8 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
9 2 (2.30%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (2.30%) PKI
10 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Unix
2 6 (6.90%) Windows
3 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.30%) Android
4 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.98%) Computer Science
2 32 (36.78%) Software Engineering
3 31 (35.63%) Data Science
4 26 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (26.44%) Bioinformatics
6 22 (25.29%) Analytics
7 16 (18.39%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (18.39%) Mentoring
7 16 (18.39%) Migration
8 14 (16.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 14 (16.09%) Data Migration
8 14 (16.09%) Project Management
8 14 (16.09%) Statistics
9 13 (14.94%) Data Modelling
9 13 (14.94%) ERP
9 13 (14.94%) Process Improvement
10 12 (13.79%) Decision-Making
11 11 (12.64%) Biotechnology
11 11 (12.64%) CRM
11 11 (12.64%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.14%) SQL
2 15 (17.24%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.75%) C#
4 5 (5.75%) Ruby
5 3 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.30%) Java
7 1 (1.15%) ABAP
7 1 (1.15%) C
7 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.15%) R
7 1 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (57.47%) Degree
2 16 (18.39%) Master's Degree
3 9 (10.34%) PhD
4 2 (2.30%) CCIE
4 2 (2.30%) CCNP
4 2 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 6 (6.90%) HL7
2 5 (5.75%) ISO 13485
2 5 (5.75%) NCSC
3 4 (4.60%) DICOM
4 3 (3.45%) SNOMED CT
5 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.30%) QA
6 1 (1.15%) GDPR
6 1 (1.15%) GMP
6 1 (1.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) SAP
3 5 (5.75%) BT
4 3 (3.45%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.45%) MarketAxess
4 3 (3.45%) Murex
4 3 (3.45%) Oracle
4 3 (3.45%) PagerDuty
4 3 (3.45%) Tradeweb
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.15%) Databricks
5 1 (1.15%) Sawtooth Software
5 1 (1.15%) Workday