Bioinformatics Jobs in the UK 2026
Computational biology, genomics and biostatistics roles across the UK life-sciences sector.
The UK is one of the world's leading hubs for genomics and computational biology, anchored by the life-sciences "Golden Triangle" of Cambridge, Oxford and London and by the Wellcome Sanger Institute at Hinxton. Employers hiring bioinformaticians here range from major pharma (AstraZeneca, GSK) and sequencing companies (Oxford Nanopore, Illumina) to research institutes and fast-growing biotechs. Below are the current openings on CompBioJobs, updated daily.
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51 open positions
Principal Scientist Predictive Agentic Target Biology
GSK · Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Director, Translational Data Sciences
GSK · Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Senior Director, Epidemiology and RWE Franchise Lead (Oncology)
Gilead · United Kingdom - Uxbridge
ML Research Engineer/Scientist
Boltz · London, UK
Applied ML Engineer/Scientist
Boltz · London, UK
Computational Biologist
Boltz · London, UK
Small Molecule Computational Scientist
Boltz · London, UK
Computational Antibody Engineer
Barrington James · Cambridgeshire, England
Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer
RelationRx · London
Senior Data Scientist (Single Cell)
RelationRx · London
Snr/Principal Machine Learning Scientist – Generative Modelling
RelationRx · London
AI Accelerator for Drug Discovery - Talent Pool
Boehringer Ingelheim · London, UK
Research Scientist (Applied LLMs), London
Isomorphic Labs · London
Bioinformatician (AI & Robotics)
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, England
Bioinformatician - Pathogen
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, England
Bioinformatician
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, England
Bioinformatics Engineer
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, England
(Senior) Computational Genomics Scientist, Algorithms & AI/ML
Ellison Institute of Technology · Oxford, England
Senior Director, Translational Genetics
GSK · Stevenage, Hertfordshire
· $207K-$345K
Lead Bioinformatician - Genomics
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · Manchester, England
· £80K-£92K
Computational Scientist (AI & Biology)
Ensocell · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Genomic Data Scientist
Genomics England · London, England
BioImaging Bioinformatician
EMBL · Hinxton, Cambridgeshire
Research Fellow in Computational Biology
University of Southampton · Highfield Campus, Southampton, UK
· £37K-£37K
Senior Director, Head of Artificial Intelligence
Immunocore · Gaithersburg, MD, Conshohocken, PA or Oxford, UK
Bioinformatician - Disease Gene Discovery - Inherited Mitochondrial Diseases
University of Cambridge · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
· $42K-$57K
Senior Scientist / Lead Scientist (Computational Chemistry)
Sygnature Discovery · Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Senior / Lead Geneticist
Sano Genetics · London, United Kingdom
· $60K-$70K
Principal, AI Data Science
Jazz Pharmaceuticals · London, London, City of
Computational Biologist, Tree of Life
Cultivarium · Watertown, MA / London, UK
Principal Data Scientist – Precision Biomarkers in Skin Health
Mitra Bio · London, UK
Bioinformatician
EMBL · Hinxton, Cambridgeshire
Senior Research Scientist, Mathematical Foundations
Basecamp Research · London
Senior Research Engineer, ML Systems
Basecamp Research · London
Bioinformatics Scientist
Basecamp Research · London
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Basecamp Research · London
Bioinformatics Data Scientist
Engitix Therapeutics · London
Computational Chemist
Aqemia · London
Snr Data Scientist, Computational Genomics/DNA Modelling
RelationRx · London
Senior Data Scientist – Statistical Genetics
RelationRx · London
Senior Data Scientist - Computational Biology
RelationRx · London
Data Scientist – Computational Genomics, 12-month FTC
RelationRx · London
Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Flagship Pioneering · Cambridge, UK
Associate Director, Statistical Programming
Novartis · London (The Westworks)
· £68K-£126K
AIML Engineer, AI for Science
GSK · London
AI for Science Postdoctoral Researcher - Biomolecular AI & Experimental Data Integration
Microsoft Research · Cambridge, UK / Berlin, Germany
Senior Scientist - Computational Protein Design/Bioinformatics
Abcam · Cambridge, United Kingdom
Senior Bioinformatician
Wellcome Sanger Institute · Hinxton, UK
· £46K-£55K
Postdoctoral Fellow- Computational Biology and Machine Learning
Wellcome Sanger Institute · Hinxton, UK
· £39K-£50K
Google DeepMind Fellow in Genomics & AI
Wellcome Sanger Institute · Hinxton, UK
Scientist / Senior Scientist, Computational Biology
Altos Labs · Cambridge, UK
· £62K-£104K
Employers hiring bioinformaticians in the UK now
RelationRx
Ellison Institute of Technology
GSK
Boltz
Basecamp Research
Wellcome Sanger Institute
EMBL
Gilead