Bioinformatics Jobs

Bioinformatics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Bioinformatics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Bioinformatics over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 695 844 938
Rank change year-on-year +149 +94 +38
Permanent jobs citing Bioinformatics 22 50 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.050% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.059% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 21
10th Percentile £65,000 - -
25th Percentile £91,250 £54,752 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £75,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% +63.93% -44.55%
75th Percentile - £80,313 £67,500
90th Percentile - £81,250 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £77,500 £45,750
% change year-on-year -35.48% +69.40% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Bioinformatics 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,728 84,924 96,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.83% 85.58% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 26,848 59,902 56,809
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,010 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,415 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Bioinformatics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bioinformatics.

Salary trend for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bioinformatics over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bioinformatics within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 22 £135,000 +80.00% 74
UK excluding London +146 20 £50,000 -35.48% 46
Work from Home +119 13 £50,000 -33.33% 31
South East +94 10 £50,000 +20.48% 19
East of England +44 10 - - 22
London +107 2 £135,000 +80.00% 40

Bioinformatics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Pipeline Pilot
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.55%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Git
General
1 14 (63.64%) Manufacturing
2 12 (54.55%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (22.73%) Electronics
4 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Software Developer
3 1 (4.55%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) PyTorch
1 12 (54.55%) TensorFlow
2 11 (50.00%) scikit-learn
3 9 (40.91%) Keras
3 9 (40.91%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 14 (63.64%) Algorithms
2 5 (22.73%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (22.73%) Molecular Biology
3 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.55%) CRISPR
4 1 (4.55%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Debian
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Biology
2 13 (59.09%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (59.09%) Machine Learning
2 13 (59.09%) Software Engineering
3 12 (54.55%) Computational Biology
3 12 (54.55%) Computer Science
4 11 (50.00%) Physics
5 10 (45.45%) Data Science
6 9 (40.91%) Analytics
6 9 (40.91%) Data Analytics
6 9 (40.91%) Data Engineering
6 9 (40.91%) Data Transformation
6 9 (40.91%) Data Visualisation
6 9 (40.91%) Deep Learning
6 9 (40.91%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 9 (40.91%) Dimensionality Reduction
6 9 (40.91%) Reinforcement Learning
6 9 (40.91%) Roadmaps
6 9 (40.91%) User Experience
6 9 (40.91%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) C
2 2 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) R
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) Degree
2 18 (81.82%) PhD
3 10 (45.45%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Facebook
1 1 (4.55%) YouTube