Informatics Contracts in the North West

Informatics
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 124 144
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Informatics 1 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.050% 0.21% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.26% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £218 £580
25th Percentile £663 £233 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £373 £700
Median % change year-on-year +81.04% -46.74% +64.71%
75th Percentile £688 £516 £813
90th Percentile - £536 £820
England median daily rate £408 £359 £313
% change year-on-year +13.67% +14.72% -26.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,791 2,352 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.46% 83.82% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,435 1,884
10th Percentile £303 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% -1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 264 140
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.75 £30.27
Median % change year-on-year +15.32% -8.33% +28.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.68
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Informatics in the North West

Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Informatics in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Informatics in the North West

Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Informatics in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Informatics in the North West

Informatics
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
Cheshire -6 1 £675 +22.73% 2
Informatics
England

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