England Pharmaceutical Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Pharmaceutical' in IT jobs within the England region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Pharmaceutical over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Location Abingdon Amersham Basingstoke Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Esher Essex Evesham Feltham Gateshead Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucestershire Grantham Hampshire Havant Haverhill Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Kettering Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Royston Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	263	279
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	1357	1397
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.665 %	0.618 %
As % of the category below	1.344 %	1.235 %
Salaries quoted	1002	1156
Average minimum salary	£38,978	£42,440
Average salary	£44,090	£46,742
% change on same period last year	-5.67 %
Average maximum salary	£49,202	£51,044
UK excluding London average salary	£41,617	£44,864
% change on same period last year	-7.23 %
General England
Matching permanent IT job ads	100950	113142
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	49.50 %	50.09 %
Salaries quoted	82109	89028
Average minimum salary	£43,834	£46,301
Average salary	£48,180	£50,710
% change on same period last year	-4.99 %
Average maximum salary	£52,526	£55,120
UK excluding London average salary	£40,607	£42,099
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Pharmaceutical UK

Pharmaceutical
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Pharmaceutical across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend

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

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the England region over the past 3 months.

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	South East	-66	398	£43,503	-6.19 %
2	London	+34	357	£54,127	+3.13 %
3	East of England	+85	231	£36,283	-9.40 %
4	North West	+20	126	£35,575	-25.05 %
5	West Midlands	+11	54	£34,860	+24.41 %
6	East Midlands	-17	37	£28,897	-24.72 %
7	Yorkshire	-34	29	£32,524	-2.28 %
8	South West	-32	23	£36,000	+18.85 %
9	North East	+6	9	£35,750	+43.00 %
10	Midlands	-17	3	£30,000	-26.53 %
11	South Coast	-	2	-	-

Pharmaceutical UK

Pharmaceutical
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Pharmaceutical also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Pharmaceutical.

1 649 (25.72 %) Degree 2 623 (24.69 %) SAP 3 539 (21.36 %) Finance 4 420 (16.65 %) Manufacturing 5 381 (15.10 %) SQL 6 373 (14.78 %) Project Management 7 357 (14.15 %) Health 8 328 (13.00 %) .NET 9 303 (12.01 %) Oracle 10 254 (10.07 %) SQL Server 10 254 (10.07 %) Microsoft 11 229 (9.076 %) Windows 12 224 (8.878 %) C# 13 215 (8.522 %) Insurance 14 202 (8.006 %) Banking

15 174 (6.897 %) Java 16 169 (6.698 %) Retail 17 161 (6.381 %) Validation 18 160 (6.342 %) Pensions 19 159 (6.302 %) C++ 20 155 (6.143 %) Business Intelligence 21 148 (5.866 %) SAP FI 21 148 (5.866 %) SAP CO 22 146 (5.787 %) ASP.NET 23 145 (5.747 %) SAP FI/CO 24 141 (5.589 %) SAS 25 136 (5.390 %) Biotechnology 26 125 (4.954 %) Life Science 27 124 (4.915 %) Chemicals 28 123 (4.875 %) MS Office

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Pharmaceutical also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Pharmaceutical. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 328 (13.00 %) .NET 2 146 (5.787 %) ASP.NET 3 119 (4.717 %) XML 4 91 (3.607 %) HTML 5 63 (2.497 %) WebServices 6 59 (2.338 %) ASP 6 59 (2.338 %) J2EE 7 52 (2.061 %) .NET Framework 8 36 (1.427 %) CSS 9 34 (1.348 %) Hibernate 10 32 (1.268 %) SAP XI 10 32 (1.268 %) Spring 11 28 (1.110 %) AJAX 12 27 (1.070 %) OpenGL 13 25 (0.991 %) J2SE 13 25 (0.991 %) ADO 14 21 (0.832 %) WebSphere 15 20 (0.793 %) DirectX 16 17 (0.674 %) Swing 16 17 (0.674 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 141 (5.589 %) SAS 2 94 (3.726 %) Documentum 3 42 (1.665 %) BizTalk Server 4 37 (1.467 %) NetWeaver 5 32 (1.268 %) SharePoint 6 31 (1.229 %) Lotus Notes 7 27 (1.070 %) MS Exchange 8 26 (1.031 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 20 (0.793 %) JBoss 10 18 (0.713 %) CMS 11 17 (0.674 %) SAP EP 12 16 (0.634 %) WebLogic 13 13 (0.515 %) WebLogic Portal 14 12 (0.476 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 12 (0.476 %) ColdFusion 15 10 (0.396 %) Tomcat 16 9 (0.357 %) Apache 17 7 (0.277 %) IIS 18 5 (0.198 %) SharePoint Server 2007 19 4 (0.159 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 123 (4.875 %) MS Office 2 98 (3.884 %) MS Excel 3 54 (2.140 %) MS Visio 4 20 (0.793 %) MS Project 5 16 (0.634 %) Pro/ENGINEER 6 12 (0.476 %) MS PowerPoint 7 9 (0.357 %) SPSS 8 6 (0.238 %) Photoshop 9 5 (0.198 %) S-PLUS 10 4 (0.159 %) Fireworks 11 3 (0.119 %) AutoCAD 11 3 (0.119 %) MATLAB 12 2 (0.079 %) Adobe Captivate 12 2 (0.079 %) Acrobat 12 2 (0.079 %) Shockwave 13 1 (0.040 %) FrameMaker 13 1 (0.040 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 148 (5.866 %) SAP FI 1 148 (5.866 %) SAP CO 2 145 (5.747 %) SAP FI/CO 3 56 (2.220 %) SAP APO 4 45 (1.784 %) SAP PP 5 40 (1.585 %) SAP MM 6 38 (1.506 %) SAP QM 7 26 (1.031 %) SAP Oil and Gas 7 26 (1.031 %) SAP R/3 8 22 (0.872 %) Oracle Applications 8 22 (0.872 %) SAP SD 9 20 (0.793 %) SAP SRM 9 20 (0.793 %) SAP WM 10 19 (0.753 %) Oracle 11i 11 18 (0.713 %) Oracle EBS 12 17 (0.674 %) Oracle Clinical 13 15 (0.595 %) SAP SCM 14 13 (0.515 %) SAP SEM 15 11 (0.436 %) SAP HR 16 10 (0.396 %) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking 1 61 (2.418 %) Internet 2 53 (2.101 %) LAN 3 40 (1.585 %) TCP/IP 4 39 (1.546 %) WAN 5 36 (1.427 %) Intranet 6 31 (1.229 %) VPN 7 21 (0.832 %) SAN 8 19 (0.753 %) Wireless 9 17 (0.674 %) Firewall 10 15 (0.595 %) RFID 11 12 (0.476 %) DNS 12 10 (0.396 %) CTI 12 10 (0.396 %) Network Security 12 10 (0.396 %) IPCC 12 10 (0.396 %) IP Telephony 13 8 (0.317 %) Frame Relay 13 8 (0.317 %) MPLS 13 8 (0.317 %) DHCP 14 6 (0.238 %) ADSL 15 5 (0.198 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 254 (10.07 %) SQL Server 2 99 (3.924 %) SAP BW 3 84 (3.329 %) Datawarehouse 4 48 (1.902 %) SQL Server 7 5 45 (1.784 %) SAP BI 6 44 (1.744 %) RDBMS 7 35 (1.387 %) BusinessObjects 8 34 (1.348 %) ETL 9 32 (1.268 %) Crystal Reports 10 29 (1.149 %) Oracle Reports 11 28 (1.110 %) SQL Server 2000 12 24 (0.951 %) Base SAS 12 24 (0.951 %) SQL Server 2005 13 23 (0.912 %) Oracle 9i 13 23 (0.912 %) Oracle 10g 14 16 (0.634 %) Data Mining 14 16 (0.634 %) OLAP 15 15 (0.595 %) DTS 16 14 (0.555 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 9 (0.357 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 32 (1.268 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 27 (1.070 %) Visual Studio 3 23 (0.912 %) Oracle Forms 4 17 (0.674 %) Flash 5 9 (0.357 %) NUnit 6 4 (0.159 %) LabVIEW 6 4 (0.159 %) Dreamweaver 6 4 (0.159 %) TestDirector 7 2 (0.079 %) Bugzilla 7 2 (0.079 %) Subversion 7 2 (0.079 %) PVCS 8 1 (0.040 %) Ant 8 1 (0.040 %) JUnit 8 1 (0.040 %) Eclipse 8 1 (0.040 %) LoadRunner 8 1 (0.040 %) Oracle Developer 2000 8 1 (0.040 %) PowerBuilder 8 1 (0.040 %) ProC	General 1 539 (21.36 %) Finance 2 420 (16.65 %) Manufacturing 3 357 (14.15 %) Health 4 215 (8.522 %) Insurance 5 202 (8.006 %) Banking 6 169 (6.698 %) Retail 7 160 (6.342 %) Pensions 8 124 (4.915 %) Chemicals 9 107 (4.241 %) Telecoms 10 82 (3.250 %) Marketing 11 70 (2.774 %) Education 12 69 (2.735 %) Electric 13 58 (2.299 %) Government 14 50 (1.982 %) 3D Graphics 15 36 (1.427 %) Investment Banking 16 32 (1.268 %) Construction 17 28 (1.110 %) Automotive 18 27 (1.070 %) Legal 19 26 (1.031 %) Games 20 24 (0.951 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 641 (25.41 %) Consultant 2 434 (17.20 %) SAP Consultant 3 426 (16.88 %) Developer 4 313 (12.41 %) Analyst 5 198 (7.848 %) Senior Consultant 6 163 (6.461 %) Senior SAP Consultant 7 158 (6.262 %) Programmer 8 114 (4.518 %) .NET Developer 9 93 (3.686 %) Business Analyst 10 80 (3.171 %) Architect 11 78 (3.092 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant 12 70 (2.774 %) SAP Support 13 66 (2.616 %) Project Manager 14 64 (2.537 %) Support Analyst 14 64 (2.537 %) Senior Developer 14 64 (2.537 %) SAS Programmer 15 59 (2.338 %) SAP BW Consultant 16 58 (2.299 %) Analyst Programmer 17 57 (2.259 %) Software Engineer 17 57 (2.259 %) SAP PP Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 136 (5.390 %) Biotechnology 2 125 (4.954 %) Life Science 3 91 (3.607 %) Computer Science 4 83 (3.290 %) Statistics 5 74 (2.933 %) French Language 5 74 (2.933 %) German Language 6 73 (2.893 %) Mathematics 7 49 (1.942 %) Portuguese Language 7 49 (1.942 %) Dutch Language 8 41 (1.625 %) Physics 9 37 (1.467 %) NHS 10 35 (1.387 %) Biostatistics 11 33 (1.308 %) Biology 12 29 (1.149 %) Chemistry 13 21 (0.832 %) AS400 14 18 (0.713 %) Biometrics 14 18 (0.713 %) IVR 15 17 (0.674 %) LIMS 16 16 (0.634 %) Management Information System 16 16 (0.634 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 229 (9.076 %) Windows 2 88 (3.488 %) Unix 3 64 (2.537 %) Windows 2000 4 54 (2.140 %) Linux 5 38 (1.506 %) Windows XP 6 23 (0.912 %) Windows Server 2003 7 15 (0.595 %) Windows NT 8 13 (0.515 %) SUSE 9 5 (0.198 %) Solaris 9 5 (0.198 %) AIX 10 4 (0.159 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 373 (14.78 %) Project Management 2 161 (6.381 %) Validation 3 155 (6.143 %) Business Intelligence 4 115 (4.558 %) Data Management 5 94 (3.726 %) CRM 6 92 (3.646 %) OO 7 91 (3.607 %) Logistics 8 87 (3.448 %) Business Analysis 9 78 (3.092 %) ERP 10 68 (2.695 %) Business Development 11 46 (1.823 %) Quality Management 12 45 (1.784 %) Document Management 13 44 (1.744 %) SOA 14 40 (1.585 %) UML 15 39 (1.546 %) ITIL 16 38 (1.506 %) Software Testing 17 37 (1.467 %) CAD 17 37 (1.467 %) Test Scripting 18 34 (1.348 %) Change Management 19 32 (1.268 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 381 (15.10 %) SQL 2 224 (8.878 %) C# 3 174 (6.897 %) Java 4 159 (6.302 %) C++ 5 121 (4.796 %) VB 6 117 (4.637 %) VB.NET 7 84 (3.329 %) C 8 82 (3.250 %) JavaScript 9 68 (2.695 %) PL/SQL 10 39 (1.546 %) VBA 11 34 (1.348 %) VB6 12 33 (1.308 %) Transact-SQL 13 28 (1.110 %) ABAP 14 18 (0.713 %) Delphi 14 18 (0.713 %) VC++ 15 17 (0.674 %) Embedded C 16 14 (0.555 %) ActionScript 17 11 (0.436 %) VBScript 18 10 (0.396 %) Perl 18 10 (0.396 %) Embedded C++	Qualifications 1 649 (25.72 %) Degree 2 110 (4.360 %) PhD 3 57 (2.259 %) Microsoft Certification 4 31 (1.229 %) ISEB 5 30 (1.189 %) MCP 6 21 (0.832 %) MCSE 7 15 (0.595 %) HND 7 15 (0.595 %) Citrix Certification 7 15 (0.595 %) Cisco Certification 8 12 (0.476 %) NVQ Level 3 9 10 (0.396 %) CCVP 9 10 (0.396 %) CCIE 10 9 (0.357 %) CIMA 11 8 (0.317 %) MCSD 11 8 (0.317 %) ACCA 12 5 (0.198 %) ITIL Certification 12 5 (0.198 %) Siebel Certification 12 5 (0.198 %) CCNA 13 4 (0.159 %) PRINCE2 Certification 14 3 (0.119 %) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 65 (2.576 %) QA 2 46 (1.823 %) GCP 3 45 (1.784 %) GxP 4 33 (1.308 %) GMP 5 27 (1.070 %) HL7 6 20 (0.793 %) GAMP 7 18 (0.713 %) ISO9001 8 15 (0.595 %) SLA 9 13 (0.515 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 11 (0.436 %) DICOM 11 9 (0.357 %) 21 CFR Part 11 12 7 (0.277 %) GLP 13 6 (0.238 %) CDISC 14 3 (0.119 %) ISO27001 15 2 (0.079 %) PCI QSA 16 1 (0.040 %) PCI DSS 16 1 (0.040 %) ISO17799 16 1 (0.040 %) Basel II 16 1 (0.040 %) TickIT	System Software 1 71 (2.814 %) Active Directory 2 10 (0.396 %) MSMQ 3 5 (0.198 %) NFS 4 3 (0.119 %) NetBackup 4 3 (0.119 %) Backup Exec 5 1 (0.040 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.040 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 5 (0.198 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (0.119 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.119 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 1 (0.040 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 623 (24.69 %) SAP 2 303 (12.01 %) Oracle 3 254 (10.07 %) Microsoft 4 84 (3.329 %) Cognos 5 65 (2.576 %) Siebel 6 44 (1.744 %) Cisco 7 42 (1.665 %) Citrix 8 35 (1.387 %) Business Objects 9 34 (1.348 %) Sybase 10 31 (1.229 %) Lotus 11 28 (1.110 %) IBM 12 25 (0.991 %) Ab Initio 13 23 (0.912 %) HP 14 20 (0.793 %) EMC 15 17 (0.674 %) MicroStrategy 15 17 (0.674 %) SolidWorks 16 15 (0.595 %) VMware 16 15 (0.595 %) Avaya 17 13 (0.515 %) Vignette 17 13 (0.515 %) Stellent