Transcriptomics Contract Job Trends

Transcriptomics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Transcriptomics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 563 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Transcriptomics 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.003% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.003% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £719 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £878 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +119.50% - -
75th Percentile £903 - -
90th Percentile £950 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Transcriptomics 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 32,261 30,399 39,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.54% 87.91% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,301 18,546 26,335
10th Percentile £300 £306 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,097 1,021 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.53 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +37.98%

Transcriptomics
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Transcriptomics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Transcriptomics job vacancy trend in the UK

Transcriptomics
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Transcriptomics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Transcriptomics

Transcriptomics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Transcriptomics over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Transcriptomics in the UK

Transcriptomics
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Transcriptomics within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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 - 14 £878 -
London - 12 £887 -
Work from Home +18 2 £450 +12.50%

Transcriptomics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (35.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) GCP
1 12 (85.71%) GitHub
2 9 (64.29%) Cloud Run
3 4 (28.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 4 (28.57%) IaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Figma
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) MiFID Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) FastAPI
1 9 (64.29%) pytest
2 7 (50.00%) LangGraph
3 4 (28.57%) React
4 3 (21.43%) Playwright
5 2 (14.29%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Genomics
2 11 (78.57%) Life Science
3 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) AI
2 12 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 12 (85.71%) DevOps
2 12 (85.71%) Proteomics
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 9 (64.29%) Natural Language Processing
3 9 (64.29%) Unit Testing
4 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Bioinformatics
5 5 (35.71%) Biotechnology
5 5 (35.71%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
6 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (21.43%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Google