Informatics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Informatics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 378 417
Rank change year-on-year +51 +39 +25
Contract jobs citing Informatics 9 21 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 22
10th Percentile £246 £208 £160
25th Percentile £296 £210 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £306 £208
Median % change year-on-year +32.96% +47.17% -41.75%
75th Percentile £436 £504 £403
90th Percentile - £540 £648
UK median daily rate £408 £390 £270
% change year-on-year +4.55% +44.35% -28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £18.03 £24.06
25th Percentile - £22.33 £24.16
Median hourly rate - £24.65 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year - +0.10% +207.81%
75th Percentile - £26.98 £25.41
90th Percentile - - £25.69
UK median hourly rate - £24.65 £24.63
% change year-on-year - +0.10% +207.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Informatics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Informatics in the UK excluding London

Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Informatics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Informatics in the UK excluding London

Informatics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Informatics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Informatics in the UK excluding London

Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Informatics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Informatics in the UK excluding London

Informatics
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 Informatics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands +20 5 - - 24
West Midlands +14 5 - - 11
East of England +26 2 £408 +32.96% 22
Wales +1 1 £213 +1.35% 4
South East - 1 - - 48
Informatics
UK

Informatics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (22.22%) SAS
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) CATIA
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
1 2 (22.22%) Text Mining
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Automotive
2 5 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Information Scientist
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) CAD Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Management Information System
2 5 (55.56%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (55.56%) IoT
3 2 (22.22%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (55.56%) Business Transformation
2 5 (55.56%) CAFM
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Data Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Energy Management
2 5 (55.56%) Facilities Management
2 5 (55.56%) Process Management
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Data Science
3 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Economics
3 2 (22.22%) Health Informatics
3 2 (22.22%) Ontologies
3 2 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Visual Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) MATLAB
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) PhD
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft