Pharmaceutical Contracts in England

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 325 376
Rank change year-on-year +101 +51 -31
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 382 385 483
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 0.76% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.77% 1.29% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 258 340
10th Percentile £363 £281 £349
25th Percentile £463 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £725 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 12 20
10th Percentile £17.72 £10.88 £31.88
25th Percentile £20.75 £13.13 £47.56
Median hourly rate £30.16 £36.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% -26.53% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £58.81
90th Percentile £64.69 - £61.68
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £36.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% -26.53% +8.89%

All General Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England.

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England.

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +95 109 £600 +14.29% 119
East of England +37 97 £525 +16.67% 77
North of England +68 94 £510 +4.62% 161
North West +51 86 £510 +12.09% 91
South East -4 26 £650 +44.44% 108
South West +31 10 - - 55
West Midlands +30 6 £338 -28.95% 37
Midlands +22 6 £338 -28.95% 66
Yorkshire +16 6 £525 -4.55% 54
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.62%) Confluence
2 10 (2.62%) SAS
3 6 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.31%) Apache
4 5 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 23 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.79%) InDesign
4 3 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.79%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.52%) SPSS
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Sketch
6 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 79 (20.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.09%) SAP EWM
2 8 (2.09%) SAP MDG
3 7 (1.83%) SAP QM
4 6 (1.57%) SAP SD
5 4 (1.05%) SAP ERP
5 4 (1.05%) TrackWise
6 3 (0.79%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.52%) Avolution ABACUS
7 2 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.52%) SAP SCM
7 2 (0.52%) SAP Travel Management
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.26%) SAP CX
8 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.26%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.26%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.26%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 29 (7.59%) AWS
2 28 (7.33%) Power Platform
3 17 (4.45%) Azure
4 14 (3.66%) Snowflake
5 13 (3.40%) Collibra
6 9 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (2.09%) Power Automate
8 7 (1.83%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.83%) Serverless
9 6 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (1.31%) Entra ID
11 4 (1.05%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.05%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.57%) FTP
1 6 (1.57%) LAN
1 6 (1.57%) WAN
2 3 (0.79%) Firewall
2 3 (0.79%) Internet
2 3 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.52%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (0.52%) MQTT
3 2 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.26%) VoIP
4 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.33%) Power BI
2 15 (3.93%) Data Lake
3 14 (3.66%) Metadata
4 13 (3.40%) SAP HANA
5 11 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.09%) Big Data
6 8 (2.09%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.83%) EDMS
7 7 (1.83%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.57%) Ataccama
8 6 (1.57%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.57%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.79%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.79%) Tableau
11 2 (0.52%) Data Hub
11 2 (0.52%) MySQL
11 2 (0.52%) SAP BW
12 1 (0.26%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 34 (8.90%) JIRA
2 13 (3.40%) Git
3 6 (1.57%) Eclipse
3 6 (1.57%) PyCharm
3 6 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.26%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.26%) Toad
5 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.97%) Manufacturing
3 52 (13.61%) Finance
4 27 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (3.93%) Marketing
6 13 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.83%) Aerospace
7 7 (1.83%) Legal
8 6 (1.57%) Banking
8 6 (1.57%) Electronics
9 5 (1.31%) Advertising
9 5 (1.31%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.31%) Health Technology
9 5 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.79%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.52%) Aviation
11 2 (0.52%) Publishing
12 1 (0.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 75 (19.63%) Analyst
2 40 (10.47%) Project Manager
2 40 (10.47%) Senior
3 35 (9.16%) Consultant
3 35 (9.16%) Data Analyst
4 30 (7.85%) Business Analyst
5 28 (7.33%) Lead
6 24 (6.28%) Developer
7 22 (5.76%) Senior Analyst
8 20 (5.24%) Architect
9 18 (4.71%) SAP Consultant
9 18 (4.71%) SAP Manager
10 17 (4.45%) Data Manager
11 12 (3.14%) SAP Analyst
11 12 (3.14%) Senior Data Analyst
12 11 (2.88%) Data Engineer
12 11 (2.88%) Data Governance Analyst
12 11 (2.88%) Data Governance Manager
12 11 (2.88%) Governance Manager
13 10 (2.62%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.14%) React
2 6 (1.57%) Web Services
3 5 (1.31%) AWS CDK
3 5 (1.31%) JSON
3 5 (1.31%) XML
4 4 (1.05%) Node.js
5 3 (0.79%) CSS
5 3 (0.79%) HTML
6 2 (0.52%) D3.js
6 2 (0.52%) iOS SDK
6 2 (0.52%) Nuxt
6 2 (0.52%) PySpark
6 2 (0.52%) React Native
6 2 (0.52%) SAP TM
6 2 (0.52%) Svelte
6 2 (0.52%) SvelteKit
6 2 (0.52%) Vue
7 1 (0.26%) Redux
7 1 (0.26%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.26%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.83%) Life Science
2 22 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.40%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.09%) Biopharmaceutical
5 8 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.57%) PMI
7 5 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.31%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.05%) Genomics
8 4 (1.05%) IoT
8 4 (1.05%) LIMS
8 4 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.05%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.05%) Robotics
8 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.79%) Animation
9 3 (0.79%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.83%) Windows
2 4 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.79%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.52%) Android
4 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.26%) Linux
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (19.37%) Stakeholder Management
2 70 (18.32%) Project Management
3 50 (13.09%) Data Governance
4 44 (11.52%) Agile
5 33 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (7.59%) Analytics
6 29 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (7.33%) Data Management
7 28 (7.33%) Project Delivery
8 26 (6.81%) Decision-Making
9 25 (6.54%) Data Modelling
10 24 (6.28%) Change Management
10 24 (6.28%) CI/CD
10 24 (6.28%) ETL
10 24 (6.28%) Machine Learning
11 22 (5.76%) Data Analysis
11 22 (5.76%) Visualisation
12 21 (5.50%) ERP
12 21 (5.50%) Roadmaps
13 20 (5.24%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (13.87%) Python
2 33 (8.64%) SQL
3 11 (2.88%) Java
4 10 (2.62%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.36%) ABAP
5 9 (2.36%) R
6 6 (1.57%) Groovy
7 5 (1.31%) C#
8 3 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.26%) Bash
10 1 (0.26%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (18.06%) Degree
2 12 (3.14%) IIBA
3 11 (2.88%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.62%) PMP
5 8 (2.09%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.57%) PhD
7 5 (1.31%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.05%) CCNA
8 4 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.05%) MCSA
8 4 (1.05%) MCSE
8 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.05%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.52%) CISA
9 2 (0.52%) CISM
9 2 (0.52%) CISSP
9 2 (0.52%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.38%) QA
2 29 (7.59%) GDPR
3 28 (7.33%) GxP
4 26 (6.81%) Data Quality
5 18 (4.71%) Good Clinical Practice
6 14 (3.66%) PMO
7 11 (2.88%) GMP
8 4 (1.05%) SLA
9 3 (0.79%) GAMP
9 3 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.52%) NIST
10 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 12 (3.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.31%) Terraform
3 3 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.79%) SCCM
4 2 (0.52%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 121 (31.68%) SAP
2 34 (8.90%) Ariba
3 24 (6.28%) Microsoft
4 19 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.45%) Adobe
6 10 (2.62%) Google
7 8 (2.09%) Informatica
8 7 (1.83%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.57%) Dataiku
9 6 (1.57%) Talend
9 6 (1.57%) Trillium
10 5 (1.31%) Oracle
11 4 (1.05%) Snow
11 4 (1.05%) Workday
12 3 (0.79%) Databricks
12 3 (0.79%) HP
12 3 (0.79%) Hyperion
12 3 (0.79%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco
13 2 (0.52%) Marketo