Informatics Contract Job Trends in London

Informatics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Informatics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 372 404
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 +138
Contract jobs citing Informatics 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% 0.032% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.036% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £436 £400 -
25th Percentile £453 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.54% +30.00% +112.77%
75th Percentile £522 £738 -
90th Percentile £584 £760 -
England median daily rate £480 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +37.14% -30.00% +112.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Informatics job vacancy trend in London

Informatics
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Informatics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Informatics

Informatics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Informatics in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Informatics in London

Informatics
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Informatics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Informatics

Informatics
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics within the London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Central London +5 1 £450 -35.71% 1
Informatics
England

Informatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (40.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (20.00%) KNIME
2 1 (20.00%) Spotfire
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Health
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) EPR Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Healthcare Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
1 1 (20.00%) LIMS
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Health Informatics
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) RDF
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (20.00%) Biology
3 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Chemistry
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (20.00%) CBAP
3 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) DICOM
2 1 (20.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle