LIMS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term LIMS in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LIMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 447 566
Rank change year-on-year +115 +119 -109
Contract jobs citing LIMS 12 28 56
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.079% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.34% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 24
10th Percentile £438 £207 £278
25th Percentile £484 £220 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £249 £500
Median % change year-on-year +111.27% -50.30% -14.89%
75th Percentile £564 £397 £591
90th Percentile £570 £455 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £255 £475
% change year-on-year +107.84% -46.32% -7.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £5.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £12.75 -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

LIMS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,363 8,167 13,894
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.56% 31.50% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,941 5,752 9,905
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 152 229
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £32.06 £20.75
Median hourly rate £49.25 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +29.21% +28.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.05
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

LIMS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing LIMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LIMS trend for jobs with a WFH option

LIMS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LIMS.

LIMS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LIMS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing LIMS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

LIMS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LIMS
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Configuration Specialist
2 4 (33.33%) LIMS Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) CSS
1 1 (8.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Life Science
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) NHS
4 1 (8.33%) e-Health
4 1 (8.33%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Information Management
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.33%) Coaching
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.33%) Data Integration
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (8.33%) ePrescribing
4 1 (8.33%) Health Informatics
4 1 (8.33%) Informatics
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) InterSystems