Informatics Job Trends

Informatics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Informatics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 654 652 736
Rank change year-on-year -2 +84 +75
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 17 96 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.14% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.039% 0.17% 0.034%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 13
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile - £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,742 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% -20.47% +15.79%
75th Percentile £60,313 £55,375 £65,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £84,315
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,742 £49,371
% change year-on-year +14.31% -11.40% +6.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 43,423 57,271 53,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 82.20% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 24,627 30,673 40,835
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £53,928 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.77% +0.80% +1.90%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Informatics job vacancy trend in the UK

Informatics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Informatics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Informatics

Informatics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Informatics over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 18 October 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 +40 17 £50,000 +14.31% 35
UK excluding London +45 11 £50,000 +14.31% 33
Work from Home -4 6 £50,000 +33.33% 22
South East +24 5 - - 17
London +21 5 £80,000 +113.33% 8
South West +50 3 £50,000 - 1
North of England +19 2 £47,500 +8.59% 7
Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 - 2
East of England +10 1 £50,000 -41.18% 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (5.88%) Neo4j
1 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) JMeter
1 2 (11.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Health Technology
2 3 (17.65%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Health
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Applications Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) FHIR
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) PACS
2 3 (17.65%) Life Science
3 2 (11.76%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (11.76%) NHS
3 2 (11.76%) Pharmacovigilance
4 1 (5.88%) LIMS
4 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Health Informatics
2 7 (41.18%) AI
3 5 (29.41%) Presales
4 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Use Case
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
6 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (11.76%) Data Science
6 2 (11.76%) ETL
6 2 (11.76%) Hematology
6 2 (11.76%) Immunology
6 2 (11.76%) Kanban
6 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum-ban
6 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
6 2 (11.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GxP
1 3 (17.65%) HL7
1 3 (17.65%) SNOMED CT
2 2 (11.76%) QA
3 1 (5.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) DICOM
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Agilent
1 1 (5.88%) Cerner
1 1 (5.88%) InterSystems
1 1 (5.88%) MEDITECH