Bioinformatics Contracts in the East of England

Bioinformatics
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Bioinformatics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Bioinformatics over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 104 115
Rank change year-on-year +17 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Bioinformatics 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.16% 0.057% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.068% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £279
25th Percentile £406 £355 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £370 £438
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -15.43% -
75th Percentile £419 £385 £547
90th Percentile - - £586
England median daily rate £413 £370 £478
% change year-on-year +11.49% -22.51% -23.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,086 1,463 1,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.08% 83.84% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 583 1,009
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £373 £311 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £701
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 541 359
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Bioinformatics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Bioinformatics in the East of England

Bioinformatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Bioinformatics in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Bioinformatics in the East of England

Bioinformatics
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Bioinformatics within the East of England region over the 6 months to 23 July 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +5 2 £413 +11.49%
Bioinformatics
England

Bioinformatics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CRISPR
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) R