London Pharmaceutical Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Pharmaceutical' in contract IT jobs within the London 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Location Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dover Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Inverness Kent Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North East North West Oxfordshire Reading Runcorn Sandwich Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Strathclyde 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 Windlesham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	328	321
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	88	159
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.116 %	0.158 %
As % of the category below	0.465 %	0.573 %
Daily rates quoted	26	45
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£330
Average daily rate	£375	£354
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.67	£34.83
Average hourly rate	£31.43	£35.78
% change on same period last year	-12.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.19	£36.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.31	£29.61
% change on same period last year	-11.16 %
General London
Matching contract IT job ads	18945	27738
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	25.00 %	27.63 %
Daily rates quoted	8842	11361
Average minimum daily rate	£436	£444
Average daily rate	£469	£474
% change on same period last year	-1.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£502	£505
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	712	947
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.10	£24.33
Average hourly rate	£26.95	£26.14
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.81	£27.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.94	£27.04
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Pharmaceutical England

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 London 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 London region.

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Pharmaceutical
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Brentford	0	6	£350	+9.83 %
City of London	-29	3	-	-
Docklands, London	-	2	£320	-
Feltham	+2	1	£445	+33.23 %

Pharmaceutical England

Pharmaceutical
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 33 (17.46 %) SAP 2 27 (14.29 %) SQL 3 26 (13.76 %) Health 4 24 (12.70 %) SAS 4 24 (12.70 %) Oracle 5 21 (11.11 %) Java 5 21 (11.11 %) Validation 6 17 (8.995 %) .NET 6 17 (8.995 %) Project Management 6 17 (8.995 %) Degree 7 15 (7.937 %) Finance 7 15 (7.937 %) ERP 8 14 (7.407 %) SQL Server 8 14 (7.407 %) XML 9 13 (6.878 %) Manufacturing

9 13 (6.878 %) SQL Server 2005 10 12 (6.349 %) ASP.NET 11 11 (5.820 %) Cognos 12 10 (5.291 %) RUP 12 10 (5.291 %) PRINCE2 12 10 (5.291 %) SAP BW 12 10 (5.291 %) IBM 13 9 (4.762 %) Mathematics 13 9 (4.762 %) GCP 13 9 (4.762 %) NHS 13 9 (4.762 %) Windows 13 9 (4.762 %) J2EE 13 9 (4.762 %) Unified Process 14 8 (4.233 %) Publishing 14 8 (4.233 %) C#

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 17 (8.995 %) .NET 2 14 (7.407 %) XML 3 12 (6.349 %) ASP.NET 4 9 (4.762 %) J2EE 5 7 (3.704 %) XSL 5 7 (3.704 %) ASP 6 6 (3.175 %) MDX 6 6 (3.175 %) Hibernate 6 6 (3.175 %) HTML 7 5 (2.646 %) EJB 8 4 (2.116 %) JSTL 8 4 (2.116 %) SAP XI 8 4 (2.116 %) JDBC 8 4 (2.116 %) JSP 8 4 (2.116 %) Struts 9 3 (1.587 %) SOAP 9 3 (1.587 %) Spring 9 3 (1.587 %) WebSphere 10 2 (1.058 %) SAP Business Workflow 10 2 (1.058 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 24 (12.70 %) SAS 2 4 (2.116 %) Oracle Application Server 3 3 (1.587 %) ESB 4 2 (1.058 %) Oracle 10gAS 4 2 (1.058 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (1.058 %) SharePoint 4 2 (1.058 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (1.058 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (0.529 %) NetWeaver 5 1 (0.529 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (0.529 %) MS Exchange 5 1 (0.529 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 1 (0.529 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 8 (4.233 %) MS Office 2 5 (2.646 %) MS Visio 3 3 (1.587 %) MS Project 3 3 (1.587 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (1.058 %) MS Excel 5 1 (0.529 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 5 (2.646 %) SAP FI 1 5 (2.646 %) SAP FI/CO 1 5 (2.646 %) SAP CO 1 5 (2.646 %) Oracle Clinical 1 5 (2.646 %) SAP SCM 2 3 (1.587 %) SAP MM 2 3 (1.587 %) SAP PP 2 3 (1.587 %) SAP PP-PI 3 2 (1.058 %) SAP ERP 3 2 (1.058 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (1.058 %) SAP R/3 4 1 (0.529 %) SAP APO 4 1 (0.529 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (0.529 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.587 %) HTTP 2 2 (1.058 %) Kerberos 2 2 (1.058 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (1.058 %) LAN 2 2 (1.058 %) WAN 3 1 (0.529 %) VPN 3 1 (0.529 %) HTTPS 3 1 (0.529 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.529 %) Internet 3 1 (0.529 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2 13 (6.878 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (5.291 %) SAP BW 4 8 (4.233 %) Datawarehouse 5 7 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2000 6 6 (3.175 %) OLAP 6 6 (3.175 %) ETL 6 6 (3.175 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 6 (3.175 %) Oracle 10g 7 4 (2.116 %) Base SAS 7 4 (2.116 %) Reference Data 7 4 (2.116 %) Crystal Reports 8 3 (1.587 %) DB2 9 2 (1.058 %) Oracle 9i 9 2 (1.058 %) DataStage 9 2 (1.058 %) RDBMS 10 1 (0.529 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (0.529 %) ReportNet 10 1 (0.529 %) DTS 10 1 (0.529 %) PostgreSQL
Development Applications 1 8 (4.233 %) Visual Studio 1 8 (4.233 %) Rational Rose 2 2 (1.058 %) JUnit 2 2 (1.058 %) RequisitePro 3 1 (0.529 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (0.529 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (0.529 %) MSI 3 1 (0.529 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (0.529 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (0.529 %) Subversion 3 1 (0.529 %) LSMW 3 1 (0.529 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 26 (13.76 %) Health 2 15 (7.937 %) Finance 3 13 (6.878 %) Manufacturing 4 8 (4.233 %) Publishing 5 6 (3.175 %) Construction 5 6 (3.175 %) Telecoms 6 4 (2.116 %) Legal 6 4 (2.116 %) Chemicals 7 3 (1.587 %) Electric 7 3 (1.587 %) Retail 7 3 (1.587 %) Marketing 8 2 (1.058 %) FMCG 8 2 (1.058 %) Banking 8 2 (1.058 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.529 %) Education 9 1 (0.529 %) Front Office 9 1 (0.529 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.529 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 35 (18.52 %) Analyst 2 30 (15.87 %) Programmer 3 29 (15.34 %) Developer 4 27 (14.29 %) Project Manager 5 24 (12.70 %) Consultant 6 16 (8.466 %) SAP Consultant 6 16 (8.466 %) SAS Programmer 7 15 (7.937 %) Business Analyst 8 12 (6.349 %) Senior Analyst 9 11 (5.820 %) Architect 10 10 (5.291 %) Java Architect 11 8 (4.233 %) Analyst Developer 12 7 (3.704 %) Statistician 13 6 (3.175 %) Java Developer 13 6 (3.175 %) IT Project Manager 13 6 (3.175 %) Senior Analyst Developer 13 6 (3.175 %) Systems Support 13 6 (3.175 %) Senior Developer 13 6 (3.175 %) Senior Business Analyst 13 6 (3.175 %) IT Manager	Miscellaneous 1 9 (4.762 %) Mathematics 1 9 (4.762 %) NHS 2 7 (3.704 %) Management Information System 2 7 (3.704 %) Statistics 3 4 (2.116 %) LIMS 4 3 (1.587 %) Computer Science 5 2 (1.058 %) Life Science 5 2 (1.058 %) Blackberry 6 1 (0.529 %) Freedom of Information 6 1 (0.529 %) Data Integration 6 1 (0.529 %) Credit Risk 6 1 (0.529 %) Chemistry 6 1 (0.529 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 9 (4.762 %) Windows 2 4 (2.116 %) Windows XP 2 4 (2.116 %) UNIX 2 4 (2.116 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (1.587 %) Solaris 3 3 (1.587 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.529 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (11.11 %) Validation 2 17 (8.995 %) Project Management 3 15 (7.937 %) ERP 4 10 (5.291 %) RUP 4 10 (5.291 %) PRINCE2 5 9 (4.762 %) Unified Process 6 8 (4.233 %) UML 6 8 (4.233 %) Business Intelligence 7 7 (3.704 %) Data Modelling 7 7 (3.704 %) Migration 7 7 (3.704 %) Change Management 7 7 (3.704 %) Business Analysis 8 6 (3.175 %) OO 9 5 (2.646 %) Document Management 10 4 (2.116 %) QMS 10 4 (2.116 %) Use Case 10 4 (2.116 %) Data Management 10 4 (2.116 %) Quality Management 11 3 (1.587 %) ITIL 11 3 (1.587 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 27 (14.29 %) SQL 2 21 (11.11 %) Java 3 8 (4.233 %) C# 4 6 (3.175 %) PL/SQL 4 6 (3.175 %) VBA 5 5 (2.646 %) VB 6 3 (1.587 %) VB.NET 6 3 (1.587 %) ABAP 7 2 (1.058 %) VB6 7 2 (1.058 %) LotusScript 7 2 (1.058 %) Formula Language 7 2 (1.058 %) C 7 2 (1.058 %) C++ 7 2 (1.058 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.529 %) SAPscript 8 1 (0.529 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 17 (8.995 %) Degree 2 3 (1.587 %) PhD 3 2 (1.058 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (0.529 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (0.529 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.529 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.529 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (0.529 %) CCNA 4 1 (0.529 %) MCSE 4 1 (0.529 %) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (4.762 %) GCP 2 8 (4.233 %) 21 CFR Part 11 3 6 (3.175 %) CDISC 4 5 (2.646 %) GxP 4 5 (2.646 %) GMP 5 4 (2.116 %) GLP 6 3 (1.587 %) GAMP 6 3 (1.587 %) QA 7 2 (1.058 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 1 (0.529 %) ISO9001 8 1 (0.529 %) TickIT 8 1 (0.529 %) SNOMED CT 8 1 (0.529 %) HL7	System Software 1 7 (3.704 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.529 %) Samba 2 1 (0.529 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 33 (17.46 %) SAP 2 24 (12.70 %) Oracle 3 11 (5.820 %) Cognos 4 10 (5.291 %) IBM 5 6 (3.175 %) Altova 5 6 (3.175 %) Microsoft 6 3 (1.587 %) Hyperion 7 2 (1.058 %) Remedy 7 2 (1.058 %) Lotus 7 2 (1.058 %) Sun 7 2 (1.058 %) Citrix 8 1 (0.529 %) Ascential 8 1 (0.529 %) JD Edwards 8 1 (0.529 %) MicroStrategy 8 1 (0.529 %) Primavera 8 1 (0.529 %) Business Objects 8 1 (0.529 %) Altiris