LIMS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 420 459
Rank change year-on-year +54 +39 -44
Contract jobs citing LIMS 32 27 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.54% 0.37% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 24
10th Percentile £298 £209 £245
25th Percentile £363 £223 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £320 £400
Median % change year-on-year +64.06% -20.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £563 £388 £524
90th Percentile £566 £403 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £375 £425
% change year-on-year +40.00% -11.76% -16.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £25.00 £5.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £5.00 -
% change year-on-year +400.00% - -

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,976 7,381 9,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.66% 32.21% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,568 4,949 6,853
10th Percentile £208 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 743 412 428
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.64
25th Percentile £14.12 £10.63 £15.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%

LIMS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LIMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LIMS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LIMS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LIMS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for LIMS in the UK excluding London

LIMS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
Wales +28 12 £535 +42.67%
South East +15 11 £400 +25.00% 7
East of England +11 4 £525 +133.33% 6
North of England +27 3 £363 +61.11% 9
North West +14 2 £350 - 7
South West - 2 £215 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £375 - 2
LIMS
UK

LIMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (3.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.13%) AWS
1 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) LAN
2 1 (3.13%) NetScaler
2 1 (3.13%) VLAN
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
2 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (28.13%) Manufacturing
1 9 (28.13%) Public Sector
2 8 (25.00%) Electronics
2 8 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (25.00%) Marketing
2 8 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Back Office
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Lead
2 8 (25.00%) LIMS Manager
2 8 (25.00%) LIMS Project Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 6 (18.75%) Configuration Specialist
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) LIMS Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) LIMS Support
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) IT Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) NHS
2 9 (28.13%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Change Management
1 12 (37.50%) Information Management
1 12 (37.50%) Service Management
2 9 (28.13%) Test Scripting
2 9 (28.13%) Validation
3 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 8 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 8 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.13%) Agile
5 1 (3.13%) Bill of Materials
5 1 (3.13%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.13%) Customer Service
5 1 (3.13%) Data Integration
5 1 (3.13%) Database Migration
5 1 (3.13%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (3.13%) Post-Production
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) HL7
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (3.13%) vSphere
1 1 (3.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) InterSystems
2 9 (28.13%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Aruba
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Citrix
4 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) NetApp
4 1 (3.13%) Sophos
4 1 (3.13%) VMware