Informatics Job Trends

Informatics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Informatics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 652 675 755
Rank change year-on-year +23 +80 +88
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 18 111 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.14% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.18% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 11 27 12
10th Percentile £46,250 - £41,499
25th Percentile £48,125 £36,250 £44,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,742 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.31% -27.10% +26.32%
75th Percentile £56,875 £58,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £84,542
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +6.69%

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 43,561 62,745 58,381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.66% 80.90% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 24,438 36,124 43,818
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Informatics 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +36 17 £50,000 +14.31% 39
UK excluding London +65 12 £50,000 -9.09% 29
Work from Home +8 7 £50,000 +33.33% 12
South West +77 4 £50,000 - 5
London +32 4 £80,000 +48.15% 13
South East +28 3 - - 8
East of England -5 3 £50,000 -41.18% 5
North of England +17 2 £47,500 +8.59% 7
Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 -

Informatics
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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.56%) iPaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
2 1 (5.56%) Neo4j
2 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) JMeter
1 2 (11.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Health Technology
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Health
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Applications Specialist
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) HTML
1 2 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) FHIR
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) PACS
2 2 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
2 2 (11.11%) LIMS
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Health Informatics
2 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) Presales
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Chemistry
4 3 (16.67%) Use Case
5 2 (11.11%) Biology
5 2 (11.11%) Biotechnology
5 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.11%) ETL
5 2 (11.11%) Kanban
5 2 (11.11%) Scrum
5 2 (11.11%) Scrum-ban
5 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) SPARQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 2 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) HL7
1 3 (16.67%) SNOMED CT
2 2 (11.11%) GxP
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) DICOM
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Cerner
2 1 (5.56%) InterSystems
2 1 (5.56%) MEDITECH