Hybrid/Remote Informatics Contract Job Trends

Informatics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Informatics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 321 406
Rank change year-on-year +5 +85 +181
Contract jobs citing Informatics 1 5 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.040% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.045% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £172 £277
25th Percentile £469 £178 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £189 £468
Median % change year-on-year +158.08% -59.59% -6.50%
75th Percentile £506 £199 £550
90th Percentile - £206 £595
UK median daily rate £478 £200 £263
% change year-on-year +138.75% -23.95% -38.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,093 11,116 18,089
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.29% 87.83% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,050 7,120 12,745
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 296 432
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.38 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.40 £30.36 £26.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -17.81% +4.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.14 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £81.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

Informatics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Informatics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Informatics trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Informatics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Informatics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Informatics

Informatics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Informatics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Informatics

Informatics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) DICOM
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 13485
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes