Pharmaceutical Contracts with Work from Home Options

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 192 266 288
Rank change year-on-year +74 +22 -27
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 155 211 392
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 0.84% 0.89%
As % of the General category 1.75% 1.44% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 129 269
10th Percentile £393 £350 £355
25th Percentile £488 £429 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £499 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 12
10th Percentile £26.45 - £47.08
25th Percentile £29.31 - £48.31
Median hourly rate £56.25 £30.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -38.78% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £36.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £68.78 £39.60 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.83 £36.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -6.03% -26.53% +8.89%

All General Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,864 14,673 23,844
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 58.80% 58.48% 54.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,820 10,341 17,298
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 333 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.95 £19.43
Median hourly rate £38.12 £50.00 £32.77
Median % change year-on-year -23.76% +52.58% +40.54%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.20 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Pharmaceutical
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Pharmaceutical trend for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pharmaceutical.

Pharmaceutical daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Pharmaceutical daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Pharmaceutical.

Pharmaceutical hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Pharmaceutical hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (3.87%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.94%) SAS
3 2 (1.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.58%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.65%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 23 (14.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.87%) SAP EWM
3 3 (1.94%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.94%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.29%) SAP IBP
4 2 (1.29%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.65%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.65%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.65%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.65%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.65%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.65%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.39%) AWS
2 9 (5.81%) Azure
3 6 (3.87%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (3.87%) SaaS
4 5 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.94%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.29%) Cloud Run
6 2 (1.29%) Slack
7 1 (0.65%) Alation
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (0.65%) GCP
7 1 (0.65%) Serverless
7 1 (0.65%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.29%) Cisco Firepower
1 2 (1.29%) Firewall
1 2 (1.29%) Internet
2 1 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
1 5 (3.23%) SAP HANA
2 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.94%) EDMS
3 3 (1.94%) Power BI
3 3 (1.94%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.29%) Metadata
4 2 (1.29%) MySQL
4 2 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.29%) Tableau
5 1 (0.65%) Big Data
5 1 (0.65%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.65%) Looker
5 1 (0.65%) MS Access
5 1 (0.65%) Redis
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Navigator
Development Applications
1 9 (5.81%) JIRA
2 7 (4.52%) Git
3 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) LSMW
3 1 (0.65%) Toad
General
1 37 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.77%) Finance
3 11 (7.10%) Influencing Skills
4 10 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.52%) Aerospace
5 7 (4.52%) Electronics
6 5 (3.23%) Banking
7 4 (2.58%) Legal
8 3 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.29%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.29%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.29%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.65%) Advertising
10 1 (0.65%) Aviation
10 1 (0.65%) Environmental Health
10 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (12.90%) Consultant
2 19 (12.26%) Project Manager
3 16 (10.32%) Analyst
4 14 (9.03%) Lead
5 13 (8.39%) Developer
6 12 (7.74%) SAP Consultant
7 10 (6.45%) Engineering Manager
7 10 (6.45%) Senior
8 9 (5.81%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.87%) Data Manager
9 6 (3.87%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.23%) Azure Developer
10 5 (3.23%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.23%) Data Governance Analyst
10 5 (3.23%) Data Governance Manager
10 5 (3.23%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (3.23%) Governance Manager
10 5 (3.23%) SAP Technical Consultant
10 5 (3.23%) Technical Consultant
11 4 (2.58%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.16%) React
2 7 (4.52%) Web Services
3 5 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.29%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.65%) .NET
5 1 (0.65%) BAPI
5 1 (0.65%) CSS
5 1 (0.65%) D3.js
5 1 (0.65%) EDI
5 1 (0.65%) HTML
5 1 (0.65%) IDoc
5 1 (0.65%) Node.js
5 1 (0.65%) Nuxt
5 1 (0.65%) PySpark
5 1 (0.65%) Redux
5 1 (0.65%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.65%) Shiny
5 1 (0.65%) Svelte
5 1 (0.65%) SvelteKit
5 1 (0.65%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.39%) Life Science
2 11 (7.10%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 8 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.58%) LIMS
5 3 (1.94%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.29%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.29%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.29%) Genomics
6 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.65%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.65%) IVR
7 1 (0.65%) Omics
7 1 (0.65%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.65%) PMI
7 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.29%) Project Management
2 27 (17.42%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (12.26%) Agile
4 16 (10.32%) Analytics
4 16 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (9.68%) Machine Learning
6 14 (9.03%) CI/CD
7 12 (7.74%) Risk Management
8 11 (7.10%) DevOps
8 11 (7.10%) User Experience
9 10 (6.45%) Data Governance
10 9 (5.81%) Data Design
11 8 (5.16%) Product Backlog
11 8 (5.16%) Scrum
12 7 (4.52%) Change Management
12 7 (4.52%) Configuration Management
12 7 (4.52%) Earned Value Management
12 7 (4.52%) ERP
12 7 (4.52%) Migration
12 7 (4.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.06%) Python
2 11 (7.10%) SQL
3 8 (5.16%) ABAP
3 8 (5.16%) R
4 2 (1.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.65%) Scala
5 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (9.68%) Degree
2 6 (3.87%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.58%) PMP
5 2 (1.29%) CISSP
5 2 (1.29%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.52%) QA
2 6 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.23%) GxP
4 3 (1.94%) PMO
5 2 (1.29%) CDISC
6 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.65%) GAMP
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (3.87%) Docker
2 5 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (27.74%) SAP
2 14 (9.03%) Ariba
3 9 (5.81%) Oracle
4 7 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.87%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.58%) Adobe
7 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.29%) Cisco
8 2 (1.29%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.29%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.29%) Databricks
8 2 (1.29%) Google
8 2 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.65%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.65%) Cadence
9 1 (0.65%) Genesys
9 1 (0.65%) Snow