Pharmaceutical Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 269 331
Rank change year-on-year +72 +62 -34
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 224 184 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.78% 0.63%
As % of the General category 2.01% 1.39% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 126 130
10th Percentile £370 £256 £269
25th Percentile £405 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.11% -4.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £575
90th Percentile £665 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £499 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 13
10th Percentile £17.72 £12.64 £24.85
25th Percentile £20.75 £13.61 £32.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £15.21 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.98% -68.96% +15.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.61 £49.50
90th Percentile £68.02 £36.64 -
UK median hourly rate £33.83 £36.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -6.03% -26.53% +8.89%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,128 13,244 16,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.33% 56.46% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,349 9,050 11,652
10th Percentile £206 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,652 767 1,021
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.00 £13.89
Median hourly rate £28.42 £28.16 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +50.59% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.59 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.69 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
East of England +32 99 £525 +16.67% 103
North of England +68 98 £510 +5.43% 174
North West +59 88 £510 +13.33% 99
South East -3 27 £530 +17.78% 137
South West +24 10 - - 78
Yorkshire +14 8 £550 - 59
Midlands +34 5 £338 -29.87% 92
West Midlands +21 5 £338 -29.87% 49
Scotland +41 3 £400 - 32
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (3.13%) SAS
2 6 (2.68%) Confluence
2 6 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.23%) Apache
3 5 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (6.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.89%) Sketch
5 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 43 (19.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.68%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.79%) TrackWise
4 3 (1.34%) SAP BPC
4 3 (1.34%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.34%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.89%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.45%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.45%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.38%) Power Platform
2 13 (5.80%) Snowflake
3 12 (5.36%) Collibra
4 10 (4.46%) Azure
5 9 (4.02%) AWS
6 7 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.68%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.23%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.23%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.23%) Serverless
9 4 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.79%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.79%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.23%) FTP
2 3 (1.34%) LAN
2 3 (1.34%) WAN
3 2 (0.89%) MQTT
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.38%) Power BI
2 15 (6.70%) Data Lake
3 11 (4.91%) Metadata
4 7 (3.13%) Big Data
4 7 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.68%) Ataccama
5 6 (2.68%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.68%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.23%) EDMS
7 3 (1.34%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.89%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.45%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (9.38%) JIRA
2 11 (4.91%) Git
3 6 (2.68%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.68%) PyCharm
3 6 (2.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
General
1 68 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.32%) Manufacturing
3 38 (16.96%) Finance
4 24 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.70%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.13%) Electronics
9 6 (2.68%) Banking
9 6 (2.68%) Marketing
10 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.34%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.89%) Publishing
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) German Language
Job Titles
1 62 (27.68%) Analyst
2 30 (13.39%) Business Analyst
3 28 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 25 (11.16%) Data Analyst
5 23 (10.27%) Senior
6 22 (9.82%) Lead
7 16 (7.14%) Consultant
7 16 (7.14%) Data Manager
7 16 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (4.91%) Data Governance Analyst
8 11 (4.91%) Data Governance Manager
8 11 (4.91%) Governance Manager
9 10 (4.46%) Engineering Manager
10 9 (4.02%) Developer
10 9 (4.02%) QA Specialist
10 9 (4.02%) SAP Manager
11 8 (3.57%) Data Quality Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) QA Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) Quality Analyst
11 8 (3.57%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.13%) React
2 5 (2.23%) JSON
2 5 (2.23%) XML
3 3 (1.34%) PySpark
4 2 (0.89%) CSS
4 2 (0.89%) HTML
5 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.63%) Life Science
2 18 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.02%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.13%) Biopharmaceutical
5 7 (3.13%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.23%) PMI
8 4 (1.79%) IoT
8 4 (1.79%) LIMS
8 4 (1.79%) Robotics
9 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.34%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.89%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.89%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (0.89%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.57%) Windows
2 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (19.64%) Data Governance
3 41 (18.30%) Project Management
4 27 (12.05%) Agile
4 27 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (11.16%) Data Management
6 23 (10.27%) Decision-Making
7 20 (8.93%) Business Analysis
7 20 (8.93%) Data Modelling
8 19 (8.48%) Analytics
8 19 (8.48%) Lean Six Sigma
8 19 (8.48%) Project Delivery
8 19 (8.48%) Six Sigma
9 18 (8.04%) Visualisation
10 17 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (7.59%) ETL
10 17 (7.59%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (7.14%) Change Management
12 15 (6.70%) Data Analysis
12 15 (6.70%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.95%) Python
2 20 (8.93%) SQL
3 11 (4.91%) Java
4 8 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.68%) Groovy
6 5 (2.23%) C#
7 2 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 51 (22.77%) Degree
2 12 (5.36%) IIBA
3 7 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.13%) PMP
4 6 (2.68%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.23%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) CCNA
6 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.79%) MCSA
6 4 (1.79%) MCSE
6 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.34%) PhD
8 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.89%) MCP
9 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) CISA
9 1 (0.45%) CISM
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.16%) GDPR
2 24 (10.71%) GxP
3 23 (10.27%) QA
4 19 (8.48%) Data Quality
5 18 (8.04%) Good Clinical Practice
6 11 (4.91%) GMP
7 7 (3.13%) PMO
8 6 (2.68%) SLA
9 3 (1.34%) GAMP
10 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.45%) CDISC
11 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.45%) NIST
11 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (4.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.34%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.89%) SCCM
2 2 (0.89%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 64 (28.57%) SAP
2 31 (13.84%) Ariba
3 18 (8.04%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.13%) Adobe
6 6 (2.68%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.68%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.68%) Trillium
7 5 (2.23%) Google
7 5 (2.23%) Informatica
7 5 (2.23%) Talend
8 3 (1.34%) HP
8 3 (1.34%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.89%) Apple
9 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.89%) Snow
10 1 (0.45%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.45%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.45%) Databricks
10 1 (0.45%) Workday