Informatics Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Informatics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Informatics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 527 535
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 +172
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 15 43 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.036% 0.12% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.13% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 12
10th Percentile - £36,350 -
25th Percentile - £37,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £43,121
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -6.08% +7.60%
75th Percentile £56,250 £74,875 £59,162
90th Percentile £67,500 £94,450 £65,365
UK median annual salary £57,500 £40,500 £43,121
% change year-on-year +41.98% -6.08% -10.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,358 32,735 28,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.41% 88.29% 90.60%
Number of salaries quoted 19,061 14,979 20,952
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £41,250 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Informatics job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Informatics
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Informatics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Informatics

Informatics
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Informatics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Informatics in the UK excluding London

Informatics
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +3 11 - - 2
South West +15 3 £50,000 +29.87% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 3
North of England - 1 £70,000 - 5
Informatics
UK

Informatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) MQTT
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 8 (53.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Associate Director
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Development Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Middleware
1 3 (20.00%) REST
1 3 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Life Science
2 5 (33.33%) Pharmacovigilance
3 3 (20.00%) LIMS
3 3 (20.00%) Operational Technology
3 3 (20.00%) PACS
4 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Health Informatics
2 7 (46.67%) Biotechnology
2 7 (46.67%) Hematology
2 7 (46.67%) Immunology
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Validation
4 4 (26.67%) Process Improvement
4 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
5 3 (20.00%) AI
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (20.00%) Data Management
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) Data Science
5 3 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Information Management
5 3 (20.00%) Presales
5 3 (20.00%) Storage Management
6 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) Python
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Degree
2 8 (53.33%) Master's Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 3 (20.00%) GxP
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Agilent