Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GAMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GAMP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 720 830
Rank change year-on-year +142 +110 -152
Contract jobs citing GAMP 8 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.003% 0.001%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.13% 0.025% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £469 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £525 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £72.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -39.29% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GAMP is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,264 8,008 11,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.34% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,961 5,483 8,038
10th Percentile £297 £275 £294
25th Percentile £405 £410 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £618
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 234 300
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.05 £18.50 £17.19
Median hourly rate £20.49 £37.75 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.74% +33.63% +34.36%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.71 £77.44 £67.37
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -49.37% +66.27% +0.24%

GAMP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GAMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GAMP in the UK

GAMP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GAMP.

Daily rate trend for GAMP in the UK

GAMP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GAMP.

Hourly rate trend for GAMP in the UK

GAMP
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GAMP within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +126 8 £500 - 4
UK excluding London +77 8 £500 - 5
North of England - 6 £475 - 1
North West - 6 £475 -
East of England +12 2 £500 - 1
Work from Home +126 1 £475 - 2

GAMP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
General
1 7 (87.50%) Manufacturing
2 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Manufacturing Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IT Support
2 3 (37.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Life Science
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Process Improvement
2 6 (75.00%) Project Management
2 6 (75.00%) Validation
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (62.50%) Data Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Data Extraction
3 5 (62.50%) FMEA
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (62.50%) Smart Manufacturing
3 5 (62.50%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) Biotechnology
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Human Resource Management
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) GxP
2 2 (25.00%) GMP
3 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
1 1 (12.50%) SAP