Bioinformatics Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Bioinformatics
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Bioinformatics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 293 269 383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 82.07% 87.06% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 124 145
10th Percentile £211 £316 £221
25th Percentile £335 £411 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £591 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £646 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 54 170
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £16.09
90th Percentile £34.09 £28.27 £29.38
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Bioinformatics job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Bioinformatics
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bioinformatics within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 1 £475 - 1
Bioinformatics
East of England

Bioinformatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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