Health Informatics Contracts in England

Healthcare Informatics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Health Informatics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Health Informatics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 482 534 622
Rank change year-on-year +52 +88 +127
Contract jobs citing Health Informatics 3 8 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.022% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.014% 0.025% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile - - £144
25th Percentile £379 £406 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% -17.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £437 £478 £606
90th Percentile £437 £514 £803
UK median daily rate £408 £413 £500
% change year-on-year -1.21% -17.50% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.17 -
UK median hourly rate - £15.17 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Health 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Health Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Health Informatics in England

Health Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Health Informatics in England

Health Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Health Informatics in England

Health Informatics
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 Health Informatics within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +30 2 £408 -22.38% 4
Health Informatics
UK

Health Informatics
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 2 (66.67%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) Text Mining
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Information Scientist
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Economics
2 2 (66.67%) Ontologies
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) DICOM
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP