The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the General category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £350 £390
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -10.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £18.75 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+26.66% +7.14%
All of the General Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
157 215 195
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 35.44% 34.02% 38.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 127 124
Average daily rate £365 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.38% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £234 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £501 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £18.50 £9.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +95.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Pharmaceutical
West Midlands

Pharmaceutical
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Birmingham Pharmaceutical Jobs Demand Trend

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Pharmaceutical Daily Rate Trend

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Pharmaceutical Hourly Rate Trend

Pharmaceutical
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Pharmaceutical also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Pharmaceutical.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmacovigilance
1 1 (100.00%) German Language
1 1 (100.00%) Japanese Language
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Pharmaceutical also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Pharmaceutical. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (100.00%) German Language
1 1 (100.00%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmacovigilance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle