Bioinformatics Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Bioinformatics
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Bioinformatics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bioinformatics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Bioinformatics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 155 141 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 86.59% 90.97% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 99
10th Percentile £272 £304 £201
25th Percentile £406 £400 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +7.32% -4.32%
75th Percentile £625 £570 £550
90th Percentile £675 £646 £603
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 17
10th Percentile £23.00 £18.75 £16.84
25th Percentile £23.16 £21.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.16 £23.21 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% -62.87% +204.88%
75th Percentile £41.56 £32.59 £77.50
90th Percentile £45.86 £47.53 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Bioinformatics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Bioinformatics job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Bioinformatics
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Bioinformatics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Genomics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (100.00%) Biotechnology
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Interpretation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes