Bioinformatics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Bioinformatics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Bioinformatics over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 832 917 984
Rank change year-on-year +85 +67 -136
Permanent jobs citing Bioinformatics 51 42 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.042% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.044% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 4
10th Percentile - - £50,750
25th Percentile £54,752 £43,125 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £45,750 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.93% -44.55% +37.86%
75th Percentile £81,250 £67,813 £98,125
90th Percentile £84,250 £72,250 £112,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £45,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +69.40% +1.67% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Bioinformatics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Bioinformatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Bioinformatics.

Salary trend for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Bioinformatics over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Bioinformatics in the UK

Bioinformatics
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Bioinformatics within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 41 £75,000 +63.93% 21
UK excluding London -1 37 £77,500 +69.40% 15
Work from Home +95 33 £75,000 +15.38% 12
East of England +21 13 £81,250 - 6
South East +3 13 £41,500 -46.45% 7
London +115 9 £75,000 +11.11% 10
North of England - 6 - - 2
North West - 4 - - 2
Scotland - 4 - - 4
North East - 2 - -
Wales - 1 - - 1

Bioinformatics
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 (1.96%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.80%) Azure
1 5 (9.80%) Azure Machine Learning
1 5 (9.80%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (7.84%) Dagster
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (3.92%) AWS
3 2 (3.92%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.92%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.96%) Metadata
3 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Snakemake
2 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Electronics
5 2 (3.92%) Legal
5 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.96%) French Language
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Senior
2 16 (31.37%) Developer
3 15 (29.41%) Software Developer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior Developer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior Software Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Data Scientist
5 9 (17.65%) Lead
5 9 (17.65%) Lead Data Scientist
5 9 (17.65%) Principal Data Scientist
5 9 (17.65%) Senior Data Scientist
5 9 (17.65%) Team Leader
6 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 2 (3.92%) Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (1.96%) Project Manager
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Manager
9 1 (1.96%) Senior Project Manager
9 1 (1.96%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.84%) PyTorch
2 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) STL
3 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Life Science
2 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.84%) Omics
3 3 (5.88%) Genomics
3 3 (5.88%) NHS
4 2 (3.92%) iPad
4 2 (3.92%) Molecular Biology
5 1 (1.96%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) Data Science
2 24 (47.06%) Informatics
3 23 (45.10%) Software Engineering
4 16 (31.37%) Biotechnology
5 14 (27.45%) Machine Learning
6 10 (19.61%) Biology
7 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 9 (17.65%) Line Management
8 8 (15.69%) Computer Science
9 7 (13.73%) Computational Biology
10 6 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (11.76%) DevOps
11 5 (9.80%) Architectural Design
11 5 (9.80%) BDD
11 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (9.80%) Deep Learning
11 5 (9.80%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (9.80%) TDD
12 4 (7.84%) Containerisation
12 4 (7.84%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.80%) Ruby
4 4 (7.84%) Bash
5 2 (3.92%) SQL
6 1 (1.96%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) Degree
2 21 (41.18%) PhD
3 14 (27.45%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) GLP
1 2 (3.92%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform