LIMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term LIMS in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LIMS over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 359 421
Rank change year-on-year +31 +62 +37
Contract jobs citing LIMS 8 31 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.062% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.52% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 8
10th Percentile £269 £303 £212
25th Percentile £353 £428 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £288
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +82.61% -32.35%
75th Percentile £523 £563 £388
90th Percentile £529 £566 £399
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £323
% change year-on-year -3.57% +62.79% -28.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £5.00
UK median hourly rate - - £5.00

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

LIMS 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 4,307 5,969 7,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.30% 29.15% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,581 5,122
10th Percentile £207 £208 £220
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £613
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 726 429
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £30.93 £29.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +32.95% +4.56%
75th Percentile £64.88 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.47 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £22.45
% change year-on-year +4.00% +39.21% -18.37%

LIMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LIMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
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 LIMS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +39 4 £225 -50.00% 4
North of England +16 2 £523 +44.14% 3
North West +14 2 £523 +49.29% 3
East of England +22 1 £513 -2.38% 2
Midlands +21 1 £400 - 1
LIMS
UK

LIMS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Electronics
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
1 3 (37.50%) Marketing
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 2 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Digital Marketing
1 3 (37.50%) Information Management
1 3 (37.50%) Programme Management
2 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (12.50%) Biology
2 1 (12.50%) Chemistry
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GxP
1 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
1 1 (12.50%) HL7
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP