Omics Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Omics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Omics in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Omics over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Omics 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £536 £325 £438
% change year-on-year +64.85% -25.71% -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Omics 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 7,130 4,236 5,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.38% 33.18% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,405 2,597 3,561
10th Percentile £263 £205 £210
25th Percentile £389 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £482 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.14% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 302 724
10th Percentile £15.79 £16.95 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £19.37 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.54 £30.93 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.70% +3.10% +36.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.42 £83.94 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.60 £32.05 £31.50
% change year-on-year +32.93% +1.75% +40.09%

Omics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Omics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Omics
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Omics
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 Omics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. 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 Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
Omics
UK

Omics
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 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Practice Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks