Omics Contract Job Trends in England

Omics
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Omics in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Omics over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 464 531
Rank change year-on-year -121 +67 +114
Contract jobs citing Omics 3 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.017% 0.005%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.049% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £375
25th Percentile £438 - £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £441
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +35.98% -
75th Percentile £513 - £476
90th Percentile - - £490
UK median daily rate £536 £325 £438
% change year-on-year +64.85% -25.71% -

All Generic Skills
England

Omics 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,084 8,243 11,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.12% 34.06% 30.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,268 5,401 7,348
10th Percentile £312 £300 £270
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -3.51%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.14% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 666 328 820
10th Percentile £16.01 £16.67 £12.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.94 £15.17
Median hourly rate £46.00 £34.50 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +2.99% +48.99%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.60 £32.05 £31.50
% change year-on-year +32.93% +1.75% +40.09%

Omics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Omics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Omics job vacancy trend in England

Omics
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Omics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Omics

Omics
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Omics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Omics

Omics
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 Omics within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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
London - 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Omics
UK

Omics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) MLflow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Research Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Ray
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
1 2 (66.67%) Bioinformatics
1 2 (66.67%) Biotechnology
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computational Biology
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Deep Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (66.67%) LLM
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) ETL Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks