Informatics Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Informatics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Informatics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 161 182
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 +42
Contract jobs citing Informatics 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.043% 0.083% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.096% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £558 - £432
25th Percentile £569 - £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £460
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.38%
75th Percentile £644 - £493
90th Percentile £663 - £512
England median daily rate £478 £300 £500
% change year-on-year +59.17% -40.00% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,118 3,133 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.90% 86.57% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,786 2,758
10th Percentile £215 £263 £288
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 160 186
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.29 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.60 £29.00 £28.37
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +2.22% +28.95%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.45 £67.57 £62.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Informatics job vacancy trend in the North of England

Informatics
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Informatics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Informatics

Informatics
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Informatics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Informatics

Informatics
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West -21 2 £600 - 5
Informatics
England

Informatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) X.509
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Healthcare Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Healthcare Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Coaching
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian