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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 623 743
Rank change year-on-year +8 +120 +147
Permanent jobs citing Informatics 20 70 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.13% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.15% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 8 5 27
10th Percentile £49,250 £36,950 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £38,750 £42,496
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +10.53% -6.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £55,000 £64,988
90th Percentile £105,500 £86,500 £83,603
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +15.18% +0.53% +30.14%

All Process & 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 50,453 47,821 60,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.27% 91.48% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 29,778 22,900 47,030
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

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 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Top 8 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 27 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 +1 19 £62,500 +19.05% 31
UK excluding London +15 15 £55,000 +15.18% 23
South East -4 13 £55,000 -47.62% 6
Work from Home +48 3 £51,250 +15.17% 9
London +39 3 £105,000 - 7
South West -1 1 £50,000 +29.87% 2
Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 - 4
North of England - 1 £70,000 - 10

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 (15.00%) Veeva
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.00%) iPaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Sentry
3 1 (5.00%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) MQTT
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) NAS
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 9 (45.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Digital Health
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Associate Director
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Director
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Middleware
2 3 (15.00%) REST
2 3 (15.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) FHIR
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Next.js
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Life Science
2 5 (25.00%) Pharmacovigilance
3 3 (15.00%) LIMS
3 3 (15.00%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (5.00%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Health Informatics
2 8 (40.00%) Biotechnology
3 7 (35.00%) Computer Science
3 7 (35.00%) Hematology
3 7 (35.00%) Immunology
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Validation
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) AI
6 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Data Management
7 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (15.00%) Data Science
7 3 (15.00%) Digital Strategy
7 3 (15.00%) Information Management
7 3 (15.00%) Storage Management
8 2 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
8 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Degree
2 8 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GxP
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (20.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (10.00%) GDPR
3 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (5.00%) DICOM
4 1 (5.00%) HL7
4 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Agilent
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Cerner
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) InterSystems
3 1 (5.00%) MEDITECH
3 1 (5.00%) QNAP
3 1 (5.00%) Synology
3 1 (5.00%) Veeam