Bioinformatics Contracts in England

Bioinformatics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 530 630
Rank change year-on-year +62 +100 +136
Contract jobs citing Bioinformatics 14 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.019% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.022% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 15
10th Percentile - £319 £265
25th Percentile £406 £333 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £370 £405
Median % change year-on-year +11.49% -8.64% -41.09%
75th Percentile £419 £471 £544
90th Percentile £590 £500 £588
UK median daily rate £413 £370 £405
% change year-on-year +11.49% -8.64% -35.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,329 31,491 43,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.40% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,605 20,622 30,435
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 949 2,249 1,535
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.32% +1.11% +38.82%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Bioinformatics in England

Bioinformatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Bioinformatics in England

Bioinformatics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Bioinformatics in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Bioinformatics in England

Bioinformatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Bioinformatics in England.

Hourly rate trend for Bioinformatics in England

Bioinformatics
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
East of England +26 2 £413 +11.49% 21
South East - 2 - - 13
Bioinformatics
UK

Bioinformatics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (14.29%) Dagster
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) Prefect
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 11 (78.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) NumPy
1 2 (14.29%) Pandas
1 2 (14.29%) Polars
1 2 (14.29%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Genomics
2 5 (35.71%) CRISPR
3 4 (28.57%) Omics
4 2 (14.29%) Life Science
5 1 (7.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 4 (28.57%) Data Science
2 4 (28.57%) Proteomics
2 4 (28.57%) Transcriptomics
3 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Bayesian Methods
4 2 (14.29%) Biology
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) Computational Biology
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 2 (14.29%) Observability
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) R
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) HDFS
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Atlassian