Brentford Pharmaceutical Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Pharmaceutical' in contract IT jobs within the Brentford region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Location Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Brentford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chessington Chippenham City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Feltham Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Inverness Kent Leeds Leicestershire London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands North East North West Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley UK Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	1
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	8	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	60.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£334
Average daily rate	£350	£342
% change on same period last year	+2.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£357
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£29.18	£27.50
% change on same period last year	+6.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.35	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.02	£29.42
% change on same period last year	-14.94 %
General Brentford
Matching contract IT job ads	8	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£334
Average daily rate	£350	£342
% change on same period last year	+2.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£29.18	£27.50
% change on same period last year	+6.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.35	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.78	£27.25
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Pharmaceutical London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Pharmaceutical
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the Brentford region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend

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

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Pharmaceutical
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Brentford 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 3 (18.75 %) Windows 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 1 3 (18.75 %) ERP 2 2 (12.50 %) Java 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP 2 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 2 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (12.50 %) Finance 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Education 3 1 (6.250 %) Health 3 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Quality Management

3 1 (6.250 %) HOOD 3 1 (6.250 %) Data Security 3 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System 3 1 (6.250 %) Back Office 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Workflow 3 1 (6.250 %) SAP XI 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Assessment 3 1 (6.250 %) Information Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Planning 3 1 (6.250 %) Degree 3 1 (6.250 %) ESB 3 1 (6.250 %) Resource Management

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Brentford 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 (6.250 %) .NET 1 1 (6.250 %) SOAP 1 1 (6.250 %) WebServices 1 1 (6.250 %) XML 1 1 (6.250 %) XSD 1 1 (6.250 %) XSL 1 1 (6.250 %) XSLT 1 1 (6.250 %) WSDL 1 1 (6.250 %) SAP XI 1 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere 1 1 (6.250 %) SAP Business Workflow	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 1 (6.250 %) ESB
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) LAN 1 1 (6.250 %) WAN 1 1 (6.250 %) HTTP 1 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (6.250 %) HTTPS 1 1 (6.250 %) Intranet 1 1 (6.250 %) 3G	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) DB2 1 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (6.250 %) ETL 1 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS 1 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 1 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Finance 1 2 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (6.250 %) FMCG 2 1 (6.250 %) Education 2 1 (6.250 %) Health 2 1 (6.250 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Project Manager 1 6 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 2 2 (12.50 %) Programmer 3 1 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (6.250 %) Security Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) SAP Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) SAP Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) SAP Workflow Consultant 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Web Project Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Web Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) SAP Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) BI Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Author 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Author	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry 1 1 (6.250 %) LIMS 1 1 (6.250 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) ERP 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Service Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Quality Management 3 1 (6.250 %) HOOD 3 1 (6.250 %) Data Security 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Workflow 3 1 (6.250 %) Risk Assessment 3 1 (6.250 %) Information Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Planning 3 1 (6.250 %) Resource Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Load Testing 3 1 (6.250 %) QMS 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) Java 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) ABAP 2 1 (6.250 %) C	Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification 1 1 (6.250 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) GLP 1 1 (6.250 %) GxP	System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP 3 1 (6.250 %) Cognos 3 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.250 %) Sun 3 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 3 1 (6.250 %) Remedy 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects