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Hire bioinformaticians in the UK

What bioinformaticians are paid, what to name in the advert, and who you are up against — from the adverts on Biotechnology Jobs, not a survey. Looking for the roles themselves? See Bioinformatician jobs.

What you will pay

£45k to £66k, most around £65k

The range employers advertised for bioinformaticians on Biotechnology Jobs over the last 12 months, base salary only, across 3 priced adverts. Adverts that state a salary get more applications than those that hide it, and a figure at or above the midpoint is the single cheapest thing you can do for the response.

Remote or anchored

A fully remote role draws the whole country and can pay a little under the London figure; an anchored one competes locally and cannot.
Greenfield or inherited

Building from nothing is worth more to the right person than running what exists, and they will ask which it is.
Someone senior to learn from

A strong lead in the team is worth thousands on the offer; without one, expect to pay for that experience directly.

Who you are competing with

Hiring bioinformaticians on Biotechnology Jobs right now

Ellison Institute of Technology 1
University of Cambridge 1

Three live adverts for the role, as candidates see them. How rivals pitch it is worth a look before you write yours.

University of Cambridge

Genomics Bioinformatician

Cambridge
On-site
£42,254 – £56,535 pa
Mid-level · manages people
Contract

Manage a small sub-team fulfilling genomic data requests, defining cohorts from genomic profiles and delivering datasets to researchers. Work spans LINUX/UNIX, HPC, scripting in Python, R and Bash, Git, and database management, with datasets moving from CSD3 to AWS and a commercial bioinformatics platform. Also contributes to wider Bioinformatics team activities.

AWS · CSD3 · Git

2 weeks ago

Talentmark

Clinical Bioinformatician - 18040 (3)

Slough
Hybrid · 3 days in office
£37 – £50 ph
Contract

Process, analyse and interpret omics data from clinical portfolio studies to uncover biological mechanisms, treatment effects and safety signals. Develop analysis pipelines using state-of-the-art tools, document reproducible code for patient-level data, and write reports and scientific publications. Requires strong bulk and single-cell RNAseq expertise, R, HPC/Unix and Docker skills.

Docker · DNAnexus

3 weeks ago

Talentmark

Senior Bioinformatician

Bracknell
Hybrid · 2–3 days in office
£37 – £49 ph
Senior
Contract

Analyse large-scale single-cell, bulk transcriptomics and other omics datasets, and develop new computational methods to extract biological insight. Build scalable, well-tested software and workflows for atlas-scale data (millions of cells) and high-dimensional proteomics, acting as the analytical point of contact in multidisciplinary collaborations from analysis plan through to publication or portfolio decision.

Visium · Xenium · MERFISH +4

3 weeks ago

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