Informatics Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Informatics
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Informatics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 24 32
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Informatics 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.87% 1.40% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.60% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £379 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £408 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% - -
75th Percentile £475 £436 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £408 -
% change year-on-year +10.43% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - -
Median hourly rate £18.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Informatics 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 193 125 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.19% 87.41% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 80 100
10th Percentile £183 £296 £234
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £420
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +20.54% -6.67%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £538
90th Percentile £635 £689 £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £420
% change year-on-year - +13.10% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 33
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.40 £17.88
25th Percentile £15.57 £18.10 £25.00
Median hourly rate £20.44 £39.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.25% -24.76% +196.28%
75th Percentile £42.07 £60.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.39 £16.27 £16.23
% change year-on-year -5.40% +0.22% +11.93%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Informatics job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Informatics
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Informatics

Informatics
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Informatics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Informatics

Informatics
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Change Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Change Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 2 (50.00%) Flask
2 1 (25.00%) Celery
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (25.00%) JPA
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) Pandas
2 1 (25.00%) PyArrow
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker