The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Rank 46 - 45
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 2 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.443% - 0.647%
As % of the General category 1.538% - 3.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £350 £378
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+35.71% -
All of the General Category
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
130 157 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 28.82% 25.24% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 80 56
Average daily rate £400 £438 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +34.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £534 £503
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 5
Average hourly rate £24.50 £20.63 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.78% +5.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.12 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £32.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Pharmaceutical
South East

Pharmaceutical
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Pharmaceutical Hourly Rate Trend

Pharmaceutical
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Abingdon - 1 - -
Oxford - 1 - -
Pharmaceutical
South East

Pharmaceutical
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Ajax
2 3 (60.00%) Pharmacovigilance
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) German Language
4 1 (20.00%) Japanese Language
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) Ajax
1 3 (60.00%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) German Language
1 1 (20.00%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Developer
1 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Pharmacovigilance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle