Omics Job Trends

Omics
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Omics in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Omics over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Omics 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.044% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Omics falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,244 25,031 24,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 41.06% 32.14% 40.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10,179 12,993 17,967
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,116 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%

Omics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Omics in the UK

Omics
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Omics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Omics

Omics
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Omics within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 - 8 - - 10
UK excluding London - 8 - - 6
South East - 5 - - 5
South West - 2 - -
East of England - 1 - - 1

Omics
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Data Lake
1 5 (55.56%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Life Science
2 6 (66.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (11.11%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Data Science
2 8 (88.89%) Bioinformatics
2 8 (88.89%) Statistics
3 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
3 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning
4 5 (55.56%) Analytics
4 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (55.56%) Data Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Data Strategy
4 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
4 5 (55.56%) Hematology
4 5 (55.56%) Immunology
4 5 (55.56%) Metadata Management
4 5 (55.56%) Ontologies
4 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (33.33%) Biology
6 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
6 3 (33.33%) Experimental Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) R
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
2 7 (77.78%) PhD
3 3 (33.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) CDISC
1 6 (66.67%) HL7
2 5 (55.56%) Accessibility
2 5 (55.56%) GxP
3 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) DICOM
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes