Genomics Contracts

Genomics
UK

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 552 659
Rank change year-on-year +9 +107 +168
Contract jobs citing Genomics 9 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.031% 0.021%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.078% 0.10% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 9
10th Percentile £369 £413 £245
25th Percentile £406 £494 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +5.13% -22.00%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £550
90th Percentile £738 £748 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -26.83%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,508 11,896 17,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 30.41% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,075 7,627 11,991
10th Percentile £303 £300 £306
25th Percentile £406 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £768 £825 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 557 621 422
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.30 £16.13
25th Percentile £18.82 £18.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £44.74 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -34.06% +12.09% +50.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.67 £45.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -34.08% +1.12% +106.98%

Genomics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Genomics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Genomics in the UK

Genomics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Genomics.

Daily rate trend for Genomics in the UK

Genomics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Genomics over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Genomics in the UK

Genomics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Genomics.

Hourly rate trend for Genomics in the UK

Genomics
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 August 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
England +7 8 £438 -12.50% 34
Work from Home +29 4 £413 -17.50% 11
UK excluding London +7 2 - - 21
London -3 2 £725 +20.83% 13
East of England - 2 - - 7

Genomics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Run
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Health Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Writer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
1 1 (11.11%) FHIR
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) LangGraph
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
1 1 (11.11%) pydantic
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
1 1 (11.11%) RAML
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Swagger
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) LIMS
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Bioinformatics
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Transcriptomics
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (11.11%) Proteomics
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) R
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) HL7
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) LabVantage
1 1 (11.11%) MuleSoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce