Informatics Contracts

Informatics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Informatics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Informatics over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 613 711
Rank change year-on-year +72 +98 -48
Contract jobs citing Informatics 38 71 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.088% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 34 61
10th Percentile £127 £166 £205
25th Percentile £200 £182 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £264 £289 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% -32.12% -10.53%
75th Percentile £439 £538 £575
90th Percentile £562 £643 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £209 £213 £400
% change year-on-year -1.65% -46.88% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £18.72 £24.06 £20.36
25th Percentile £21.45 £24.16 £21.27
Median hourly rate £24.50 £24.63 £43.39
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -43.25% -34.26%
75th Percentile £26.98 £25.41 £72.50
90th Percentile - £25.69 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.65 £24.63 £21.64
% change year-on-year +0.10% +13.79% -67.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Informatics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Informatics over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Informatics in the UK

Informatics
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Informatics within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +73 33 £307 -15.45% 58
UK excluding London +28 22 £209 -1.65% 51
London +96 15 £390 -3.41% 14
North of England +27 8 £373 -37.86% 7
Work from Home +100 7 £337 -32.65% 172
North West +13 6 £373 -37.86% 4
Wales +14 5 £125 -30.56% 5
East of England +10 5 £306 -12.43% 6
West Midlands +14 4 - - 10
Midlands +12 4 - - 14
Yorkshire +22 2 - - 3

Informatics
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 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP MDG
1 2 (5.26%) SystmOne
2 1 (2.63%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.63%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DHCP
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) HTTP
1 2 (5.26%) SAN
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (5.26%) MariaDB
4 2 (5.26%) MySQL
4 2 (5.26%) Power BI
4 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.63%) Metadata
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.63%) QlikView
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
1 2 (5.26%) JMeter
1 2 (5.26%) JUnit
1 2 (5.26%) Postman
1 2 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) German Language
4 4 (10.53%) Legal
5 3 (7.89%) Finance
6 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.26%) Publishing
7 1 (2.63%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.63%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Military
7 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.63%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Deployment Engineer
1 6 (15.79%) Windows Deployment Engineer
1 6 (15.79%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Data Manager
3 4 (10.53%) IT Support
3 4 (10.53%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (10.53%) IT Technician
3 4 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Support Technician
4 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Architect
4 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Data Governance Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Developer
4 2 (5.26%) SAP Manager
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) XML
2 2 (5.26%) .NET
2 2 (5.26%) CSS
2 2 (5.26%) FHIR
2 2 (5.26%) Gherkin
2 2 (5.26%) HTML
2 2 (5.26%) JSON
2 2 (5.26%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (50.00%) NHS
2 8 (21.05%) Management Information System
3 5 (13.16%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (10.53%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (10.53%) IoT
5 2 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.63%) Genomics
6 1 (2.63%) Life Science
6 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (36.84%) Windows
2 6 (15.79%) Windows 10
3 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) Linux
5 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Health Informatics
2 8 (21.05%) Migration
3 6 (15.79%) Agile
3 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
3 6 (15.79%) ITIL
3 6 (15.79%) PRINCE2
4 5 (13.16%) Data Management
4 5 (13.16%) Project Management
5 4 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (10.53%) Business Transformation
5 4 (10.53%) CAFM
5 4 (10.53%) Change Management
5 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.53%) Customer Service
5 4 (10.53%) Data Architecture
5 4 (10.53%) Data Science
5 4 (10.53%) Digital Enablement
5 4 (10.53%) Energy Management
5 4 (10.53%) Process Management
5 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (5.26%) C#
2 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.63%) Python
3 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (44.74%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (13.16%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) PhD
4 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) MCP
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) HL7
2 2 (5.26%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Cegedim Rx
3 1 (2.63%) HP
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle