Hybrid/Remote Bioinformatics Job Trends

Bioinformatics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Bioinformatics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 439 467
Rank change year-on-year +67 +28 +255
Permanent jobs citing Bioinformatics 3 6 7
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.034% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.037% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £77,500 £47,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £79,375 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -30.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £92,500 £64,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,500 £70,750 £85,250
UK median annual salary £85,000 £52,500 £76,250
% change year-on-year +61.90% -31.15% +66.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Bioinformatics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,641 16,190 18,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.02% 92.72% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,739 9,805 15,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Bioinformatics and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Bioinformatics job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Bioinformatics
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bioinformatics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Bioinformatics over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Bioinformatics salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Bioinformatics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (66.67%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Health Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Genomics
1 1 (33.33%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Biomedicine
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (33.33%) ISO 13485
3 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle