Genomics Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Genomics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Genomics in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Genomics over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 364 407
Rank change year-on-year -14 +43 +71
Contract jobs citing Genomics 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.017% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.055% 0.059% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £436
25th Percentile £438 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -17.39%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £492
90th Percentile - - £501
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -24.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Genomics 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,474 5,074 6,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.67% 29.19% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,295 2,803 4,324
10th Percentile £220 £208 £215
25th Percentile £363 £359 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.38% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 318 358
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.22 £16.43
25th Percentile £17.30 £22.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.75 £51.25 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -47.80% +1.43% +129.67%
75th Percentile £54.38 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.85 £75.05 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.42 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.63% +2.62% +74.05%

Genomics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Genomics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Genomics
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Genomics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Genomics

Genomics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Genomics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
East of England -8 3 £475 -9.52% 3
Genomics
UK

Genomics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Writer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Bioinformatics
1 1 (33.33%) Biomedicine
1 1 (33.33%) Biotechnology
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Interpretation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes