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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 204 256 311
Rank change year-on-year +52 +55 -10
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 209 189 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.01% 0.83% 0.68%
As % of the General category 1.87% 1.47% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 123 142
10th Percentile £363 £261 £278
25th Percentile £405 £328 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.28%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £584
90th Percentile £600 £725 £712
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 8 15
10th Percentile £17.72 £14.25 £24.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £20.30 £28.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.53 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.54% -52.57% +46.15%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.61 £49.50
90th Percentile £68.02 £63.23 £51.15
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -38.78% +50.77%

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 11,183 12,827 17,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.82% 56.28% 56.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,337 8,711 11,743
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,690 723 1,040
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.25 £14.22
Median hourly rate £28.34 £27.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% +41.03% +2.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £37.11
90th Percentile £67.39 £68.75 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +2.93%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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
North of England +57 96 £500 - 176
East of England +14 87 £500 +11.11% 102
North West +52 84 £500 +11.11% 109
South East -10 26 £501 +17.88% 152
Yorkshire +12 10 £550 - 44
South West +17 9 - - 56
Midlands +22 5 £338 -28.95% 84
West Midlands +16 5 £338 -28.95% 40
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 (3.35%) SAS
2 6 (2.87%) Confluence
2 6 (2.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.39%) Apache
3 5 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.39%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.44%) Sketch
5 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (18.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.87%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.91%) TrackWise
4 3 (1.44%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.44%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.96%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.96%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.48%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.48%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.48%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 13 (6.22%) Snowflake
3 12 (5.74%) Collibra
4 9 (4.31%) Azure
5 7 (3.35%) AWS
6 6 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.87%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (2.39%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.39%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.39%) Serverless
8 4 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.91%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.91%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.91%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.91%) Google Workspace
8 4 (1.91%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.39%) FTP
2 3 (1.44%) LAN
2 3 (1.44%) WAN
3 2 (0.96%) MQTT
4 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.09%) Power BI
2 15 (7.18%) Data Lake
3 11 (5.26%) Metadata
4 7 (3.35%) Big Data
4 7 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.87%) Ataccama
5 6 (2.87%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.87%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (2.87%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.39%) EDMS
7 3 (1.44%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.96%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.48%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.48%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (9.57%) JIRA
2 10 (4.78%) Git
3 6 (2.87%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.87%) PyCharm
3 6 (2.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.48%) LabVIEW
General
1 60 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 49 (23.44%) Manufacturing
3 25 (11.96%) Finance
4 22 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.74%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (3.35%) Aerospace
7 7 (3.35%) Banking
8 6 (2.87%) Electronics
8 6 (2.87%) Marketing
9 3 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Back Office
10 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.96%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) German Language
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 58 (27.75%) Analyst
2 30 (14.35%) Business Analyst
3 24 (11.48%) Project Manager
3 24 (11.48%) Senior
4 23 (11.00%) Data Analyst
5 17 (8.13%) Senior Analyst
6 15 (7.18%) Consultant
7 14 (6.70%) Lead
8 13 (6.22%) Data Manager
9 9 (4.31%) Developer
9 9 (4.31%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (4.31%) QA Specialist
10 8 (3.83%) Data Governance Analyst
10 8 (3.83%) Data Governance Manager
10 8 (3.83%) Data Quality Analyst
10 8 (3.83%) Governance Manager
10 8 (3.83%) QA Analyst
10 8 (3.83%) Quality Analyst
10 8 (3.83%) SAP Analyst
11 7 (3.35%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.35%) React
2 6 (2.87%) XML
3 5 (2.39%) JSON
4 4 (1.91%) PySpark
5 3 (1.44%) CSS
5 3 (1.44%) HTML
6 1 (0.48%) IDoc
6 1 (0.48%) Redux
6 1 (0.48%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (15.79%) Life Science
2 17 (8.13%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.31%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.35%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.87%) Biopharmaceutical
7 5 (2.39%) PMI
8 4 (1.91%) IoT
8 4 (1.91%) LIMS
8 4 (1.91%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.91%) Robotics
9 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.96%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (0.96%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.96%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.48%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.87%) Windows
2 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
2 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (28.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 42 (20.10%) Data Governance
3 30 (14.35%) Project Management
4 28 (13.40%) Agile
5 23 (11.00%) Data Management
5 23 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (10.05%) Data Modelling
7 20 (9.57%) Business Analysis
8 19 (9.09%) Decision-Making
9 18 (8.61%) Analytics
9 18 (8.61%) Lean Six Sigma
9 18 (8.61%) Six Sigma
10 17 (8.13%) ETL
10 17 (8.13%) Requirements Gathering
10 17 (8.13%) Visualisation
11 16 (7.66%) Data Engineering
12 15 (7.18%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (7.18%) Data Protection
12 15 (7.18%) Project Delivery
12 15 (7.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.40%) Python
2 18 (8.61%) SQL
3 11 (5.26%) Java
4 9 (4.31%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.87%) Groovy
6 5 (2.39%) C#
7 2 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 43 (20.57%) Degree
2 12 (5.74%) IIBA
3 7 (3.35%) PMP
4 6 (2.87%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.87%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.91%) CCNA
5 4 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.91%) MCSA
5 4 (1.91%) MCSE
5 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.91%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.91%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.44%) PhD
7 2 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.48%) CISA
8 1 (0.48%) CISM
8 1 (0.48%) CISSP
8 1 (0.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.96%) GDPR
1 25 (11.96%) GxP
2 22 (10.53%) QA
3 18 (8.61%) Good Clinical Practice
4 17 (8.13%) Data Quality
5 11 (5.26%) GMP
6 6 (2.87%) PMO
7 4 (1.91%) SLA
8 3 (1.44%) GAMP
9 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.48%) CDISC
9 1 (0.48%) NIST
9 1 (0.48%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.44%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.96%) SCCM
2 2 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 55 (26.32%) SAP
2 24 (11.48%) Ariba
3 15 (7.18%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.87%) Adobe
4 6 (2.87%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.87%) Dataiku
4 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.87%) Trillium
5 5 (2.39%) Informatica
5 5 (2.39%) Talend
6 4 (1.91%) Google
7 3 (1.44%) Allen-Bradley
7 3 (1.44%) HP
7 3 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.96%) Apple
8 2 (0.96%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.48%) Cadence
9 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle