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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 361 390
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 +79
Contract jobs citing Informatics 11 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.073% 0.094% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile - £120 £183
25th Percentile £379 £123 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £168 £255
Median % change year-on-year +190.54% -34.26% -27.07%
75th Percentile £675 £310 £419
90th Percentile £683 £465 £606
UK median daily rate £448 £221 £289
% change year-on-year +102.95% -23.57% -23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - £24.06
25th Percentile £12.31 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £12.96 £15.17 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -38.40% +14.53%
75th Percentile £13.60 - £25.41
90th Percentile - - £25.69
UK median hourly rate £12.96 £21.09 £24.63
% change year-on-year -38.57% -14.36% +13.06%

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 13,513 15,883 20,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.35% 82.88% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,158 9,545 13,482
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.37% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,286 1,720 1,238
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.06 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.00 £40.41
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% -1.02% +85.55%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £74.04 £76.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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
Northern Ireland - 6 - -
East of England +13 2 £408 +32.96% 7
North West -8 2 £663 +31.45% 9
North of England -9 2 £663 +31.45% 23
Scotland - 1 £488 - 3
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 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Datadog
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
1 2 (18.18%) Text Mining
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
1 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Information Governance Officer
1 6 (54.55%) Information Officer
2 3 (27.27%) Compliance Officer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Officer
3 2 (18.18%) Information Scientist
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
2 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (18.18%) Life Science
2 2 (18.18%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Protection
1 6 (54.55%) Data Security
1 6 (54.55%) Information Governance
1 6 (54.55%) Mathematics
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Health Informatics
2 3 (27.27%) Records Management
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) TDD
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) BDD
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Science
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Economics
3 2 (18.18%) Ontologies
3 2 (18.18%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) MATLAB
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) HNC
1 3 (27.27%) HND
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) DICOM
2 1 (9.09%) HL7
2 1 (9.09%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 2 (18.18%) SAP