Informatics Job Trends in England

Informatics
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Informatics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 591 644
Rank change year-on-year +9 +53 +122
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 20 88 25
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.038% 0.18% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.20% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 15
10th Percentile - £36,650 £34,800
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £46,500 £43,742
Median % change year-on-year +34.41% +6.31% -9.97%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,188 £64,824
90th Percentile £86,000 £91,375 £82,603
UK median annual salary £57,500 £46,500 £49,371
% change year-on-year +23.66% -5.82% +2.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Informatics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,581 44,028 42,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.75% 90.38% 90.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,429 21,729 32,838
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Informatics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Informatics job vacancy trend in England

Informatics
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Informatics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Informatics

Informatics
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Informatics in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Informatics in England

Informatics
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics within the England region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -5 11 - - 2
London +17 4 £85,000 - 3
South West +9 3 £50,000 +29.87%
North of England - 1 £70,000 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 2
Informatics
UK

Informatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Veeva
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) iPaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Sentry
2 1 (5.00%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) MQTT
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 8 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Digital Health
4 2 (10.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 3 (15.00%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Associate Director
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Development Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Middleware
2 3 (15.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) FHIR
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Next.js
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Life Science
2 5 (25.00%) Pharmacovigilance
3 3 (15.00%) LIMS
3 3 (15.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (15.00%) PACS
4 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Health Informatics
2 7 (35.00%) Biotechnology
2 7 (35.00%) Hematology
2 7 (35.00%) Immunology
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Validation
4 5 (25.00%) AI
5 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Data Management
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Information Management
6 3 (15.00%) Presales
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Python
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) SPARQL
2 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Degree
2 8 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (15.00%) GxP
3 2 (10.00%) HL7
3 2 (10.00%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.00%) DICOM
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Agilent
2 1 (5.00%) Cerner
2 1 (5.00%) InterSystems
2 1 (5.00%) MEDITECH