LIMS Contracts

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 646 755
Rank change year-on-year +82 +109 -70
Contract jobs citing LIMS 38 49 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.088% 0.12%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.29% 0.27% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 32
10th Percentile £318 £191 £263
25th Percentile £441 £223 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -11.76% -16.87%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £528
90th Percentile £563 £575 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £320 £400
% change year-on-year +64.06% -20.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £5.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £5.00 -
% change year-on-year +400.00% - -

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 12,984 18,455 29,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.97% 33.21% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,299 12,703 20,498
10th Percentile £274 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £444 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £660 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 928 608 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.24 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £59.06 £50.39
90th Percentile £71.44 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +59.09% +2.33% -4.44%

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 9 June 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 10 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 9 June 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 +46 31 £525 +64.06% 33
England +79 25 £475 +27.52% 41
Work from Home +106 12 £525 +31.25% 19
Wales +29 12 £535 +42.67% 1
South East +20 11 £400 +25.00% 9
London +76 6 £475 -17.39% 6
East of England +5 4 £525 +133.33% 7
North of England +21 2 £350 +55.56% 12
North West +10 2 £350 - 8
South West - 2 £215 - 2

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:

Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SAP QM
2 1 (2.63%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
1 1 (2.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
General
1 10 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.68%) Manufacturing
3 8 (21.05%) Electronics
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Marketing
3 8 (21.05%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.53%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Project Manager
2 9 (23.68%) Lead
3 8 (21.05%) LIMS Manager
3 8 (21.05%) LIMS Project Manager
4 6 (15.79%) Configuration Specialist
5 4 (10.53%) Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) LIMS Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.26%) LIMS Support
7 2 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Consultant
8 1 (2.63%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) NHS
2 9 (23.68%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.53%) Life Science
4 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Information Management
2 12 (31.58%) Change Management
2 12 (31.58%) Service Management
3 9 (23.68%) Test Scripting
3 9 (23.68%) Validation
4 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (21.05%) Digital Marketing
4 8 (21.05%) Programme Management
4 8 (21.05%) Test Strategy
5 4 (10.53%) Agile
6 3 (7.89%) QMS
6 3 (7.89%) Scrum
6 3 (7.89%) Unit Testing
6 3 (7.89%) User Stories
7 2 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (2.63%) Bill of Materials
8 1 (2.63%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (2.63%) Impact Assessments
8 1 (2.63%) Post-Production
8 1 (2.63%) Project Delivery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) HL7
2 1 (2.63%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) SAP
2 11 (28.95%) InterSystems
3 1 (2.63%) LabWare
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle