The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in IT jobs advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 3 months to 24 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 Macclesfield region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Rank 41 32 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 2 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 1.058% 1.887% -
As % of the General category 4.444% 7.692% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+3.65% -3.52%
All of the General Category
Macclesfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
45 39 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 23.81% 24.53% 9.953%
Number of salaries quoted 42 38 17
Average salary £31,000 £33,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.14% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,650 £25,250 £21,800
10% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £39,750 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Pharmaceutical
Cheshire

Pharmaceutical
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield 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 Macclesfield region.

Macclesfield Pharmaceutical Salary Trend

Pharmaceutical
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield 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 8 (66.67%) Java
1 8 (66.67%) Web Services
1 8 (66.67%) Python
1 8 (66.67%) MATLAB
1 8 (66.67%) Bioinformatics
1 8 (66.67%) R
2 7 (58.33%) Workflow
3 6 (50.00%) Grid Computing
3 6 (50.00%) PhD
3 6 (50.00%) OO
3 6 (50.00%) Ontologies
3 6 (50.00%) jBPM
4 3 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
5 2 (16.67%) SOAP
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Cognizant
5 2 (16.67%) Neural Network
5 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 2 (16.67%) Biology
5 2 (16.67%) Life Science
5 2 (16.67%) Statistics
5 2 (16.67%) SciPy
5 2 (16.67%) NumPy
5 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 2 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
6 1 (8.333%) Business Transformation
6 1 (8.333%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (8.333%) Java EE

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield 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 8 (66.67%) Web Services
2 6 (50.00%) jBPM
3 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) SciPy
3 2 (16.67%) NumPy
4 1 (8.333%) Java EE
4 1 (8.333%) REST
4 1 (8.333%) JPA
4 1 (8.333%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (8.333%) ICEfaces
4 1 (8.333%) Spring
4 1 (8.333%) JSF
4 1 (8.333%) Middleware
4 1 (8.333%) WSDL
4 1 (8.333%) XML
4 1 (8.333%) XSD
4 1 (8.333%) XSLT
4 1 (8.333%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
1 1 (8.333%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) StarTeam
1 1 (8.333%) JIRA
1 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
1 1 (8.333%) Mockito
1 1 (8.333%) Maven
1 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
1 1 (8.333%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
1 7 (58.33%) Java Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Lead Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Business Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.333%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 6 (50.00%) Ontologies
2 2 (16.67%) Neural Network
2 2 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (16.67%) Biology
2 2 (16.67%) Life Science
2 2 (16.67%) Statistics
2 2 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (8.333%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Bioinformatics
2 7 (58.33%) Workflow
3 6 (50.00%) OO
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (16.67%) Statistical Modelling
5 1 (8.333%) Business Transformation
5 1 (8.333%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (8.333%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
5 1 (8.333%) Performance Management
5 1 (8.333%) Business Process Improvement
5 1 (8.333%) BPEL
5 1 (8.333%) Information Management
5 1 (8.333%) Migration
5 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.333%) EAI
5 1 (8.333%) SOA
5 1 (8.333%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
1 8 (66.67%) Python
1 8 (66.67%) MATLAB
1 8 (66.67%) R
2 1 (8.333%) XPath
2 1 (8.333%) XQuery
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) PhD
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
1 1 (8.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Cognizant
3 1 (8.333%) Remedy
3 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.333%) Business Objects