Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 385 262
Rank change year-on-year +79 -123 +15
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 951 819 2,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 0.84% 1.57%
As % of the General category 1.58% 1.24% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 348 376 425
10th Percentile £30,875 £40,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,197 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,402 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +7.34% +14.29%
75th Percentile £69,719 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,625 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,750 £53,500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +9.81% +7.00%

All General Skills
UK

Pharmaceutical is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 60,283 66,144 108,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.75% 67.94% 64.98%
Number of salaries quoted 39,987 35,943 51,825
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £42,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,426 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical.

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +94 878 £50,000 -23.08% 812
UK excluding London +92 694 £50,000 -14.89% 624
Work from Home +46 273 £52,500 -16.00% 231
London +85 237 £60,000 -7.69% 202
South East +55 214 £47,500 -24.00% 157
North of England +102 170 £41,250 -16.67% 195
Midlands +60 110 £60,000 +11.63% 80
Yorkshire +88 85 £40,000 -36.00% 51
North West +56 78 £45,000 -9.09% 113
East of England -52 75 £50,000 +2.56% 104
East Midlands +25 74 £51,250 -33.87% 42
South West +34 65 £47,500 -13.64% 57
West Midlands +35 36 £60,000 +14.29% 38
Northern Ireland +21 28 £50,000 +8.70% 3
Scotland -47 26 £65,000 - 31
North East - 7 £55,000 - 33
Wales +4 6 £49,571 +23.93% 15

Pharmaceutical
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 25 (2.63%) Skype for Business
2 21 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.47%) SAS
4 13 (1.37%) Documentum
5 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.63%) WinCC
7 5 (0.53%) CMS
7 5 (0.53%) Confluence
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 99 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (7.15%) Microsoft Office
3 44 (4.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.58%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.21%) SPSS
7 2 (0.21%) Stata
Business Applications
1 16 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
1 16 (1.68%) TrackWise
2 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.63%) SAP IBP
2 6 (0.63%) SAP PLM
3 5 (0.53%) SAP CO
3 5 (0.53%) SAP FI
3 5 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 5 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 5 (0.53%) SAP PP
4 4 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 4 (0.42%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.32%) Q-Pulse
5 3 (0.32%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.21%) Misys Midas
6 2 (0.21%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.11%) Maximo
7 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (7.78%) Azure
2 69 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (6.31%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.47%) SaaS
5 23 (2.42%) AWS
6 21 (2.21%) PowerApps
7 13 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.37%) Power Automate
8 11 (1.16%) OneDrive
8 11 (1.16%) ShareGate
9 10 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (1.05%) Google Analytics
9 10 (1.05%) Google Tag Manager
10 8 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (0.84%) GCP
11 6 (0.63%) GitHub
11 6 (0.63%) PaaS
12 5 (0.53%) BigCommerce
13 4 (0.42%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.63%) Cisco IOS
1 25 (2.63%) Skype
1 25 (2.63%) Telepresence
2 13 (1.37%) Firewall
3 11 (1.16%) Network Security
4 10 (1.05%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.74%) Intranet
6 6 (0.63%) Internet
6 6 (0.63%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.53%) RS-232
7 5 (0.53%) Wireless
8 4 (0.42%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.42%) DHCP
8 4 (0.42%) DNS
9 3 (0.32%) LAN
9 3 (0.32%) Profibus
9 3 (0.32%) SAN
9 3 (0.32%) VPN
9 3 (0.32%) VSAN
10 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.57%) Power BI
2 32 (3.36%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.10%) Tableau
4 17 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 13 (1.37%) Big Data
5 13 (1.37%) Metadata
6 11 (1.16%) Data Lake
6 11 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.16%) MySQL
7 9 (0.95%) SAP HANA
7 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 8 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 7 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.74%) Looker
10 5 (0.53%) Base SAS
10 5 (0.53%) SAP BW
11 4 (0.42%) GIS
11 4 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (0.42%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (1.79%) Git
2 16 (1.68%) JIRA
3 9 (0.95%) Postman
4 8 (0.84%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.74%) Subversion
6 5 (0.53%) JMeter
6 5 (0.53%) MSTest
6 5 (0.53%) Newman
6 5 (0.53%) NUnit
6 5 (0.53%) REST Assured
6 5 (0.53%) Selenium
7 4 (0.42%) gulp
7 4 (0.42%) Katalon Studio
7 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.32%) GitLab
8 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 370 (38.91%) Social Skills
2 329 (34.60%) Manufacturing
3 199 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (17.46%) Finance
5 88 (9.25%) Marketing
6 79 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 77 (8.10%) Automotive
8 62 (6.52%) Retail
9 52 (5.47%) Law
10 48 (5.05%) Legal
11 46 (4.84%) Telecoms
12 34 (3.58%) Aerospace
13 27 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (2.63%) Electronics
15 20 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (1.58%) Health Technology
18 11 (1.16%) Aviation
18 11 (1.16%) Banking
19 10 (1.05%) French Language
Job Titles
1 177 (18.61%) Senior
2 119 (12.51%) Analyst
3 81 (8.52%) Lead
4 71 (7.47%) Project Manager
5 65 (6.83%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 59 (6.20%) QA Manager
6 59 (6.20%) QA Specialist
7 39 (4.10%) Software Engineer
8 36 (3.79%) Senior Manager
9 33 (3.47%) IT Manager
10 32 (3.36%) Support Engineer
11 25 (2.63%) Developer
11 25 (2.63%) Technical Leader
12 21 (2.21%) Data Scientist
12 21 (2.21%) Senior Data Scientist
13 19 (2.00%) Architect
13 19 (2.00%) Associate Director
13 19 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
14 18 (1.89%) Business Manager
14 18 (1.89%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.21%) .NET
2 11 (1.16%) .NET Framework
3 9 (0.95%) Node.js
4 8 (0.84%) XML
5 7 (0.74%) Django
5 7 (0.74%) REST
5 7 (0.74%) Web Services
6 6 (0.63%) React
6 6 (0.63%) SAP TM
6 6 (0.63%) Vue
7 5 (0.53%) .NET Core
7 5 (0.53%) Blazor
7 5 (0.53%) Entity Framework
7 5 (0.53%) Flask
7 5 (0.53%) Swagger
8 4 (0.42%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.42%) OAuth
8 4 (0.42%) RESTful
8 4 (0.42%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (0.42%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 160 (16.82%) Life Science
2 128 (13.46%) Management Information System
3 65 (6.83%) NHS
4 59 (6.20%) Biopharmaceutical
5 46 (4.84%) Algorithms
6 29 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
8 24 (2.52%) FMCG
9 18 (1.89%) LIMS
10 17 (1.79%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.58%) Driving Licence
11 15 (1.58%) Operational Technology
12 13 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.37%) Pharmacovigilance
13 12 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
15 10 (1.05%) SCADA
16 8 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (0.84%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.47%) Windows
2 28 (2.94%) Windows 10
3 25 (2.63%) Windows 7
4 15 (1.58%) Linux
5 14 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (23.13%) QMS
2 146 (15.35%) Validation
3 132 (13.88%) Biotechnology
4 123 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
5 122 (12.83%) Mentoring
6 110 (11.57%) CAPA
7 103 (10.83%) Project Management
8 83 (8.73%) Quality Management
9 80 (8.41%) Coaching
9 80 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (7.68%) Line Management
11 71 (7.47%) Supplier Management
12 70 (7.36%) Business Development
13 68 (7.15%) Business Intelligence
13 68 (7.15%) Project Delivery
14 63 (6.62%) Process Improvement
15 62 (6.52%) Analytics
16 59 (6.20%) DevOps
16 59 (6.20%) Software Engineering
17 57 (5.99%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 73 (7.68%) SQL
2 45 (4.73%) Python
3 38 (4.00%) C#
4 27 (2.84%) R
5 18 (1.89%) C
6 11 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.05%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.74%) Java
10 5 (0.53%) Embedded C
10 5 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.42%) Bash
11 4 (0.42%) Groovy
12 3 (0.32%) JSX
12 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.32%) VB
13 2 (0.21%) C++
13 2 (0.21%) PHP
13 2 (0.21%) SAS Macro
14 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 417 (43.85%) Degree
2 100 (10.52%) Master's Degree
3 53 (5.57%) PhD
4 40 (4.21%) MBA
5 27 (2.84%) DBS Check
6 25 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 24 (2.52%) CIPD
8 18 (1.89%) Security Cleared
9 13 (1.37%) Numerate Degree
10 12 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.26%) NVQ Level 3
11 11 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.16%) SC Cleared
12 10 (1.05%) CFA
12 10 (1.05%) CIMA
13 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.63%) CISSP
14 6 (0.63%) HNC
15 5 (0.53%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (31.76%) QA
2 246 (25.87%) GMP
3 67 (7.05%) Good Clinical Practice
4 38 (4.00%) GLP
5 35 (3.68%) GxP
6 26 (2.73%) GDPR
7 20 (2.10%) ISO 9001
8 17 (1.79%) ISO 13485
8 17 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 16 (1.68%) CDISC
9 16 (1.68%) Data Quality
10 14 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 10 (1.05%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 10 (1.05%) GAMP
13 7 (0.74%) SLA
14 4 (0.42%) COSHH
14 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.42%) IEC 62304
14 4 (0.42%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (2.42%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.05%) Docker
4 5 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.42%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (2.31%) Terraform
2 15 (1.58%) SCOM
3 7 (0.74%) Ansible
3 7 (0.74%) QRadar
4 6 (0.63%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.53%) Functional Safety
6 4 (0.42%) Wonderware InTouch
7 3 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.32%) SCCM
8 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (0.11%) Computer Incident Response Team
9 1 (0.11%) DatAdvantage
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
9 1 (0.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 174 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 52 (5.47%) SAP
3 38 (4.00%) Google
4 33 (3.47%) Cisco
5 25 (2.63%) Apple
5 25 (2.63%) Polycom
6 18 (1.89%) VMware
7 11 (1.16%) Databricks
7 11 (1.16%) Nintex
7 11 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.95%) Siemens
9 8 (0.84%) QAD
9 8 (0.84%) Rockwell
10 7 (0.74%) AVEVA
10 7 (0.74%) IBM
11 6 (0.63%) Splunk
12 5 (0.53%) Oracle
12 5 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.42%) HP
13 4 (0.42%) Wonderware