Pharmaceutical Contracts in the North West

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 107 137
Rank change year-on-year +52 +30 -10
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 83 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.05% 1.51% 1.04%
As % of the General category 5.69% 2.91% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 27 28
10th Percentile £405 £263 £194
25th Percentile £463 £329 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £420
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.14% -16.04%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £514
90th Percentile £585 £650 £621
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - £22.16 £14.83
25th Percentile - £22.40 £16.44
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.53 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +16.28% +43.52%
75th Percentile £43.30 £32.65 £22.56
90th Percentile £58.65 £50.86 £24.33
England median hourly rate £33.83 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +12.77% -38.78% +54.33%

All General Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,458 1,579 2,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.64% 51.91% 50.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 1,089 1,419
10th Percentile £288 £307 £226
25th Percentile £394 £406 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £578
90th Percentile £672 £675 £650
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 77 113
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.90 £10.52
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +15.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £37.25 £37.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £51.89 £54.11 £64.60
England median hourly rate £30.50 £31.96 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.57% +48.65% +0.47%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North West over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire +19 69 £510 +13.33% 28
Merseyside +20 5 £115 - 11
Lancashire - 4 £475 - 18
Manchester +5 3 £575 +9.52% 51
Pharmaceutical
England

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (7.23%) SAS
2 5 (6.02%) Apache
2 5 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (20.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.82%) SAP MDG
2 4 (4.82%) TrackWise
3 3 (3.61%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) Snowflake
2 12 (14.46%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.43%) Collibra
4 6 (7.23%) AWS
4 6 (7.23%) Power Automate
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.02%) Serverless
6 4 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.20%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) FTP
2 2 (2.41%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) Data Lake
2 12 (14.46%) Power BI
3 7 (8.43%) Big Data
4 6 (7.23%) Ataccama
4 6 (7.23%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (7.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.02%) Data Mining
5 5 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.02%) Metadata
6 4 (4.82%) EDMS
7 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) JIRA
2 6 (7.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (6.02%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.20%) PyCharm
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.48%) Manufacturing
3 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
3 7 (8.43%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.41%) Banking
4 2 (2.41%) Publishing
5 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.20%) German Language
5 1 (1.20%) Marketing
5 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Analyst
2 15 (18.07%) Data Analyst
3 13 (15.66%) Senior
4 12 (14.46%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (13.25%) Business Analyst
6 10 (12.05%) Data Manager
7 9 (10.84%) Consultant
8 8 (9.64%) Data Quality Analyst
8 8 (9.64%) Project Manager
8 8 (9.64%) QA Analyst
8 8 (9.64%) Quality Analyst
9 7 (8.43%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
9 7 (8.43%) Senior QA Analyst
9 7 (8.43%) Senior Quality Analyst
10 6 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (7.23%) Functional Consultant
10 6 (7.23%) SAP Analyst
10 6 (7.23%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
11 5 (6.02%) Product Manager
11 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) JSON
1 5 (6.02%) XML
2 1 (1.20%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) Life Science
2 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Reference Data
3 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.82%) IoT
3 4 (4.82%) Robotics
4 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 2 (2.41%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (2.41%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.41%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.41%) Windows
1 2 (2.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (34.94%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (22.89%) Data Governance
2 19 (22.89%) Data Management
3 16 (19.28%) ETL
4 15 (18.07%) Agile
5 14 (16.87%) Data Modelling
6 13 (15.66%) Data Analysis
6 13 (15.66%) Roadmaps
7 12 (14.46%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (14.46%) Data Engineering
7 12 (14.46%) Visualisation
8 9 (10.84%) Business Analysis
8 9 (10.84%) Data Architecture
8 9 (10.84%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (10.84%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (9.64%) Data Science
10 7 (8.43%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (8.43%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (8.43%) Project Management
10 7 (8.43%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.48%) SQL
2 13 (15.66%) Python
3 6 (7.23%) Java
4 5 (6.02%) C#
5 1 (1.20%) Groovy
5 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (20.48%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) IIBA
3 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.41%) PhD
4 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.28%) QA
2 12 (14.46%) GDPR
3 10 (12.05%) Data Quality
4 7 (8.43%) GxP
5 6 (7.23%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (2.41%) PMO
7 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.20%) GAMP
7 1 (1.20%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.41%) SCCM
1 2 (2.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 31 (37.35%) SAP
2 14 (16.87%) Ariba
3 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.23%) Alteryx
4 6 (7.23%) Dataiku
4 6 (7.23%) Trillium
5 5 (6.02%) Informatica
5 5 (6.02%) Talend
6 2 (2.41%) Adobe
6 2 (2.41%) Apple
7 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.20%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle
7 1 (1.20%) Salesforce