Health Informatics Contracts

Healthcare Informatics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Health Informatics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Health Informatics over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 569 657
Rank change year-on-year +33 +88 +143
Contract jobs citing Health Informatics 3 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.025% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.030% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile - £183 £133
25th Percentile £379 £200 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £210 £525
Median % change year-on-year +94.05% -60.00% +23.53%
75th Percentile £471 £285 £669
90th Percentile £492 £378 £808
UK excluding London median daily rate £408 £210 £650
% change year-on-year +94.05% -67.69% +52.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £21.09 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £15.17 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Health 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,318 37,049 49,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.00% 84.91% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,274 23,584 34,309
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,292 2,612 1,701
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.70 £11.50
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%

Health Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
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 Health Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 23 June 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
UK excluding London +40 3 £408 +94.05% 27
England +62 2 £408 +93.82% 58
East of England - 2 £408 - 1
Work from Home +31 1 £488 +132.14% 30
Scotland - 1 £488 - 2

Health Informatics
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 2 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) Text Mining
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Information Scientist
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Benchmarking
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Economics
2 2 (66.67%) Ontologies
2 2 (66.67%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) MATLAB
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) DICOM
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 13485
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP