LIMS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term LIMS in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LIMS over the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs citing LIMS 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.10% - 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £603 - £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 - £713
75th Percentile £608 - £719
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £605 - £713

All Generic Skills
City of London

LIMS falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 580 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 35.43% 31.82% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 358 500
10th Percentile £350 £375 £284
25th Percentile £440 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £688 £695 £708
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £19.03 - £12.75
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.25 - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.67%
75th Percentile £41.89 - £41.63
90th Percentile £50.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.06 - £21.00
% change year-on-year - - -40.00%

LIMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LIMS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

LIMS job vacancy trend in the City of London

LIMS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LIMS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LIMS

LIMS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality