Health Informatics Job Trends

Healthcare Informatics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Health Informatics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 630 701 722
Rank change year-on-year +71 +21 +254
Permanent jobs citing Health Informatics 12 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.007% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.008% 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile £70,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Health 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

Health Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Health Informatics job vacancy trend in the UK

Health Informatics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Informatics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Health Informatics

Health Informatics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Health Informatics over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Health Informatics in the UK

Health Informatics
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Health Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +83 12 £50,000 - 6
UK excluding London +58 11 £50,000 - 7
South East - 7 - - 1
South West - 3 £50,000 -
Work from Home - 3 £50,000 - 1
North of England - 1 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 2

Health Informatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (25.00%) Veeva
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 5 (41.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Health
4 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
2 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Associate Director
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) FHIR
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Life Science
2 5 (41.67%) Pharmacovigilance
3 3 (25.00%) PACS
4 1 (8.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Informatics
2 7 (58.33%) Hematology
2 7 (58.33%) Immunology
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Biotechnology
4 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) AI
5 3 (25.00%) Presales
5 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Data Entry
6 2 (16.67%) Issue Tracking
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
7 1 (8.33%) ETL
7 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
7 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) DICOM
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Cerner
1 1 (8.33%) InterSystems
1 1 (8.33%) MEDITECH