Informatics Contracts in England

Informatics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Informatics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Informatics over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 532 580
Rank change year-on-year +33 +48 +120
Contract jobs citing Informatics 4 28 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.090% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 22
10th Percentile £367 £200 £187
25th Percentile £375 £217 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £306 £310
Median % change year-on-year +32.96% -1.05% -17.40%
75th Percentile £499 £516 £528
90th Percentile £612 £700 £618
UK median daily rate £408 £215 £267
% change year-on-year +89.31% -19.23% -28.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £18.13 £24.06
25th Percentile - £21.27 £24.16
Median hourly rate - £23.23 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year - -5.69% -50.64%
75th Percentile - £26.98 £25.41
90th Percentile - - £25.69
UK median hourly rate £12.96 £23.23 £24.63
% change year-on-year -44.22% -5.69% -50.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 24,672 31,000 42,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 85.71% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,837 20,180 29,760
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 2,113 1,505
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.18 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.30 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.27 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.19%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Informatics in England

Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Informatics in England

Informatics
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Informatics in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Informatics in England

Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Informatics in England

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 Informatics within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
East of England +14 2 £408 +32.96% 7
North West -1 1 £675 +81.04% 4
North of England -2 1 £675 +81.04% 15
Informatics
UK

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 (50.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Text Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Information Scientist
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Economics
1 2 (50.00%) Health Informatics
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft