The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Rank 145 145 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 8 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.254% 0.289% -
As % of the General category 0.571% 0.735% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 0
Average salary £40,995 £36,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.54% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £41,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+3.65% -3.52%
All of the General Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1402 1361 1624
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 44.55% 39.39% 46.61%
Number of salaries quoted 813 916 1202
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Pharmaceutical Salary Trend

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Glasgow -21 4 £41,250 +22.22%
Dundee - 3 £40,995 -
Edinburgh +6 1 £46,000 +39.39%
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (29.41%) Java
1 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (17.65%) CentOS
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (17.65%) QMS
3 3 (17.65%) CAPA
3 3 (17.65%) Informatics
3 3 (17.65%) Biotechnology
3 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
3 3 (17.65%) Life Science
3 3 (17.65%) Japanese Language
3 3 (17.65%) QA
3 3 (17.65%) Hazard Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma
3 3 (17.65%) Quality Management
3 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
3 3 (17.65%) Supplier Management
3 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
3 3 (17.65%) TDD
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) IIS
3 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Linux

Pharmaceutical
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 2 (11.76%) J2EE
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) GWT
1 2 (11.76%) jQuery
2 1 (5.882%) AppFuse
2 1 (5.882%) XML
2 1 (5.882%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) IIS
1 3 (17.65%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) Documentum
2 2 (11.76%) FileNet
3 1 (5.882%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (17.65%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
1 2 (11.76%) Subversion
General
1 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
2 3 (17.65%) Japanese Language
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.882%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (17.65%) QA Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) Software Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Software Project Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.882%) IT Support
3 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (5.882%) IT Administrator
3 1 (5.882%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (5.882%) Product Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Maximo Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) Senior Developer
3 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Informatics
1 3 (17.65%) Biotechnology
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
1 3 (17.65%) Life Science
2 1 (5.882%) Eucalyptus
2 1 (5.882%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (17.65%) CentOS
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) QMS
1 3 (17.65%) CAPA
1 3 (17.65%) Hazard Analysis
1 3 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (17.65%) Six Sigma
1 3 (17.65%) Quality Management
1 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
1 3 (17.65%) Supplier Management
1 3 (17.65%) TDD
2 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (11.76%) Document Management
2 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (11.76%) Workflow
2 2 (11.76%) CAD
2 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (11.76%) Web Application Development
2 2 (11.76%) Product Management
3 1 (5.882%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.882%) Stress Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) C
3 1 (5.882%) PHP
3 1 (5.882%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 1 (5.882%) MCP
2 1 (5.882%) ISEB
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
1 3 (17.65%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.882%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) VMware
2 3 (17.65%) JBoss
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.882%) IBM
4 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.882%) Citrix