Informatics Contracts in the North of England

Informatics
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 164 192
Rank change year-on-year -18 +28 +41
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Informatics 2 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.050% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £629 £268 -
25th Percentile £634 £307 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £373 £600
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -37.86% +41.18%
75th Percentile £684 £438 £625
90th Percentile £686 £478 -
England median daily rate £478 £296 £405
% change year-on-year +61.06% -26.80% +4.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.17 -
England median hourly rate - £21.09 £24.63
% change year-on-year - -14.36% +14.53%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,550 3,476 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.11% 83.72% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,262 2,084 3,092
10th Percentile £268 £313 £285
25th Percentile £375 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £558 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.64% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 238 200
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £15.72
25th Percentile £17.48 £14.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.63 £26.76 £27.74
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -3.53% +43.19%
75th Percentile £43.91 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.83 £57.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.59
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.94% +50.44%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Informatics 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
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -7 2 £663 +77.69% 5
Informatics
England

Informatics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Datadog
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) X.509
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) SOLID
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian