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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 631 663 693
Rank change year-on-year +32 +30 +129
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 19 82 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.036% 0.12% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% 0.15% 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £49,371
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -17.97% +3.94%
75th Percentile £63,750 £48,746 £63,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £84,088
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,742 £43,121
% change year-on-year +14.31% +1.44% +3.16%

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 45,214 55,881 49,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 83.44% 93.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,281 28,909 37,851
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Informatics in the UK

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 Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 18 November 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 +38 18 £50,000 +23.46% 33
UK excluding London +65 12 £50,000 +14.31% 19
South East +34 8 - - 5
Work from Home +33 7 £50,000 +33.33% 23
London +19 5 £80,000 - 12
South West +34 3 £50,000 +29.87% 1
East of England +16 1 £50,000 -41.18% 3

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 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Veeva
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) MQTT
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (5.26%) Neo4j
1 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (21.05%) Finance
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Health Technology
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Digital Health
5 1 (5.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Applications Specialist
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Associate Director
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) FHIR
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) REST
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Life Science
2 5 (26.32%) Pharmacovigilance
3 3 (15.79%) PACS
4 1 (5.26%) LIMS
4 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Health Informatics
2 7 (36.84%) Hematology
2 7 (36.84%) Immunology
3 6 (31.58%) AI
4 5 (26.32%) Biotechnology
4 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
4 5 (26.32%) Presales
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Validation
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
6 3 (15.79%) Use Case
7 2 (10.53%) API Design
7 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
7 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (10.53%) ETL
7 2 (10.53%) Issue Tracking
7 2 (10.53%) Service Management
7 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) Master's Degree
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) HL7
1 3 (15.79%) SNOMED CT
2 2 (10.53%) QA
3 1 (5.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) DICOM
3 1 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) GxP
3 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) Agilent
1 1 (5.26%) Cerner
1 1 (5.26%) InterSystems
1 1 (5.26%) MEDITECH