The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Rank 95 119 114
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -5
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 25 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.397% 0.259% 0.121%
As % of the General category 4.363% 0.693% 0.402%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 1
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 £87,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% -51.42%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+2.40% -2.35%
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
573 722 498
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 32.03% 37.47% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 427 638 430
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,200 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Pharmaceutical
North West

Pharmaceutical
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Pharmaceutical Jobs Demand Trend

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Pharmaceutical Salary Trend

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire Pharmaceutical Salary Histogram

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 6 £28,500 -
Warrington - 5 - -
Macclesfield -7 2 £35,000 -17.64%
Pharmaceutical
North West

Pharmaceutical
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Pharmaceutical.

1 21 (38.18%) Java
2 17 (30.91%) Web Services
3 16 (29.09%) Oracle
4 15 (27.27%) Workflow
5 14 (25.45%) Life Science
6 13 (23.64%) Python
6 13 (23.64%) MATLAB
7 12 (21.82%) Cognizant
7 12 (21.82%) Degree
8 11 (20.00%) OO
8 11 (20.00%) SQL
9 10 (18.18%) Marketing
10 9 (16.36%) QA
10 9 (16.36%) NHS
10 9 (16.36%) Project Management
11 8 (14.55%) Bioinformatics
11 8 (14.55%) R
12 7 (12.73%) Computer Science
12 7 (12.73%) Manufacturing
13 6 (10.91%) .NET
13 6 (10.91%) WebLogic
13 6 (10.91%) SOAP
13 6 (10.91%) PhD
13 6 (10.91%) Validation
13 6 (10.91%) Grid Computing
13 6 (10.91%) jBPM
13 6 (10.91%) Agile Software Development
13 6 (10.91%) Ontologies
14 5 (9.091%) PACS
14 5 (9.091%) e-Health

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Pharmaceutical. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (30.91%) Web Services
2 6 (10.91%) .NET
2 6 (10.91%) SOAP
2 6 (10.91%) jBPM
3 4 (7.273%) Java EE
3 4 (7.273%) JPA
3 4 (7.273%) ICEfaces
3 4 (7.273%) REST
3 4 (7.273%) Spring
3 4 (7.273%) JSF
4 2 (3.636%) XML
4 2 (3.636%) XSD
4 2 (3.636%) XSLT
4 2 (3.636%) WSDL
4 2 (3.636%) Middleware
4 2 (3.636%) SciPy
4 2 (3.636%) NumPy
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.818%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.91%) WebLogic
2 4 (7.273%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.455%) Lotus Domino
4 2 (3.636%) Documentum
4 2 (3.636%) CMS
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle Service Bus
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (5.455%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.636%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.818%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.636%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.091%) LAN
2 1 (1.818%) VoIP
2 1 (1.818%) Intranet
2 1 (1.818%) Internet
2 1 (1.818%) Firewall
2 1 (1.818%) Network Security
2 1 (1.818%) Broadband
2 1 (1.818%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.273%) SQL Server
1 4 (7.273%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (7.273%) Oracle 10g
1 4 (7.273%) Big Data
2 3 (5.455%) DB2
3 2 (3.636%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.636%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (3.636%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.273%) Eclipse
1 4 (7.273%) Maven
1 4 (7.273%) StarTeam
1 4 (7.273%) JIRA
1 4 (7.273%) Git (software)
1 4 (7.273%) Mockito
1 4 (7.273%) JUnit
2 1 (1.818%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (18.18%) Marketing
2 7 (12.73%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.273%) Finance
4 3 (5.455%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Software Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Java Software Developer
6 5 (9.091%) Programmer
7 4 (7.273%) Support Specialist
7 4 (7.273%) Applications Support
8 3 (5.455%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.455%) Architect
8 3 (5.455%) Storage Specialist
8 3 (5.455%) Product Manager
8 3 (5.455%) Tivoli Specialist
9 2 (3.636%) Applications Manager
9 2 (3.636%) Product Specialist
9 2 (3.636%) Support Manager
9 2 (3.636%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (3.636%) Applications Support Manager
9 2 (3.636%) Service Support Manager
9 2 (3.636%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Life Science
2 9 (16.36%) NHS
3 7 (12.73%) Computer Science
4 6 (10.91%) Ontologies
4 6 (10.91%) Grid Computing
5 5 (9.091%) PACS
5 5 (9.091%) e-Health
5 5 (9.091%) LIMS
6 4 (7.273%) Mathematics
6 4 (7.273%) Statistics
7 3 (5.455%) Replication
8 2 (3.636%) Neural Network
8 2 (3.636%) Economics
8 2 (3.636%) Biology
8 2 (3.636%) Machine Learning
9 1 (1.818%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.818%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.273%) Windows
2 3 (5.455%) UNIX
3 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.27%) Workflow
2 11 (20.00%) OO
3 9 (16.36%) Project Management
4 8 (14.55%) Bioinformatics
5 6 (10.91%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (10.91%) Validation
6 5 (9.091%) Migration
7 4 (7.273%) ITIL
7 4 (7.273%) ERP
7 4 (7.273%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (7.273%) Document Management
7 4 (7.273%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (7.273%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (7.273%) Performance Testing
8 3 (5.455%) Project Planning
8 3 (5.455%) Technical Architecture
8 3 (5.455%) Data Protection
8 3 (5.455%) DRM
9 2 (3.636%) CRM
9 2 (3.636%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.18%) Java
2 13 (23.64%) Python
2 13 (23.64%) MATLAB
3 11 (20.00%) SQL
4 8 (14.55%) R
5 2 (3.636%) XPath
5 2 (3.636%) XQuery
6 1 (1.818%) C#
6 1 (1.818%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.818%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) PhD
3 4 (7.273%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) QA
2 4 (7.273%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (7.273%) GAMP
2 4 (7.273%) GMP
3 2 (3.636%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (7.273%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.455%) Tivoli
1 3 (5.455%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (5.455%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 16 (29.09%) Oracle
2 12 (21.82%) Cognizant
3 4 (7.273%) Remedy
3 4 (7.273%) VMware
3 4 (7.273%) SAP
4 3 (5.455%) Cisco
4 3 (5.455%) IBM
4 3 (5.455%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.455%) HP
4 3 (5.455%) EMC
4 3 (5.455%) Brocade
5 2 (3.636%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.818%) Progress
6 1 (1.818%) Twitter