Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term LIMS in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LIMS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 646 731
Rank change year-on-year +101 +85 -82
Contract jobs citing LIMS 37 57 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.098% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.30% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 36
10th Percentile £331 £150 £263
25th Percentile £456 £214 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £323 £450
Median % change year-on-year +62.79% -28.33% -11.98%
75th Percentile £558 £450 £525
90th Percentile £564 £575 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £288 £425
% change year-on-year +82.61% -32.35% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £5.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £5.00 -

All Generic Skills
UK

LIMS is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

LIMS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LIMS in the UK

LIMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LIMS.

Daily rate trend for LIMS in the UK

LIMS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LIMS over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LIMS in the UK

LIMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LIMS.

Hourly rate trend for LIMS in the UK

LIMS
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LIMS within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +59 31 £525 +82.61% 22
England +75 25 £475 +65.22% 25
Work from Home +109 12 £525 +31.25% 9
Wales +27 12 £535 +42.67%
South East +25 10 £450 +40.63% 1
London +82 6 £475 +15.15% 5
East of England +17 4 £525 +118.75% 3
North of England +32 3 £363 +61.11% 9
North West +21 2 £350 - 3
East Midlands +20 1 - - 3
Midlands +14 1 - - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 5
South West - 1 £215 - 3

LIMS
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 (2.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) SAP QM
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) AWS
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (2.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DHCP
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) LAN
1 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.70%) WAN
1 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (27.03%) Public Sector
2 8 (21.62%) Electronics
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Manufacturing
2 8 (21.62%) Marketing
2 8 (21.62%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Back Office
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Project Manager
2 9 (24.32%) Lead
3 8 (21.62%) LIMS Manager
3 8 (21.62%) LIMS Project Manager
4 6 (16.22%) Configuration Specialist
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) LIMS Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.41%) LIMS Support
7 2 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) IT Project Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Systems Manager
8 1 (2.70%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) CSS
1 1 (2.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) NHS
2 9 (24.32%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.81%) Life Science
4 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.70%) e-Health
5 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.70%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) Information Management
2 12 (32.43%) Change Management
2 12 (32.43%) Service Management
3 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (21.62%) Digital Marketing
4 8 (21.62%) Programme Management
4 8 (21.62%) Test Scripting
4 8 (21.62%) Test Strategy
4 8 (21.62%) Validation
5 4 (10.81%) Agile
6 3 (8.11%) QMS
6 3 (8.11%) Scrum
6 3 (8.11%) Unit Testing
6 3 (8.11%) User Stories
7 1 (2.70%) Analytics
7 1 (2.70%) DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 1 (2.70%) ePrescribing
7 1 (2.70%) Health Informatics
7 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
1 1 (2.70%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.70%) vSphere
1 1 (2.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) InterSystems
1 11 (29.73%) SAP
2 1 (2.70%) Aruba
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco
2 1 (2.70%) Citrix
2 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
2 1 (2.70%) HP
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.70%) NetApp
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle
2 1 (2.70%) Sophos
2 1 (2.70%) VMware