Informatics Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Informatics
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 33 40 54
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing Informatics 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.15% 0.67% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.76% 0.23%
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 - - -
East of England median daily rate £450 £408 £306
% change year-on-year +10.43% +32.96% -12.43%
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 - - -
East of England median hourly rate £18.00 - £24.50

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 263 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.73% 87.96% 82.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 128 152
10th Percentile £168 £239 £208
25th Percentile £336 £372 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +13.10% -6.67%
75th Percentile £539 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £678 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £439
% change year-on-year - +14.03% -11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 56 183
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.84
Median hourly rate £15.39 £16.27 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +0.22% +11.93%
75th Percentile £27.50 £18.90 £25.00
90th Percentile £39.54 £43.13 £53.75
East of England median hourly rate £32.00 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.14% -20.90% +90.48%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Informatics job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Informatics
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Informatics

Informatics
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Informatics

Informatics
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 Informatics within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 June 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 0 4 £450 +10.43% 4
Informatics
East of England

Informatics
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:

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