Pharmaceutical Jobs in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 289 354 231
Rank change year-on-year +65 -123 +43
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 643 514 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.91% 0.85% 1.57%
As % of the General category 1.58% 1.24% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 230 145 176
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,575 £37,000
25th Percentile £36,563 £42,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,375 £73,250 £70,938
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% +10.17% +10.28%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 40,663 41,296 42,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 57.34% 68.66% 60.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26,430 18,767 24,017
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +32 198 £47,500 -24.00% 137
North of England +88 154 £40,000 -19.19% 170
Midlands +52 106 £60,000 +9.09% 92
East of England -36 77 £50,000 -4.76% 102
Yorkshire +81 76 £40,000 -36.00% 58
North West +58 73 £45,000 -9.09% 96
East Midlands +21 72 £48,750 -37.10% 43
South West +29 54 £47,500 - 77
West Midlands +35 34 £60,000 +14.29% 49
Northern Ireland +25 26 £50,000 +9.29% 6
Scotland -60 23 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Wales +3 5 - - 16
North East - 5 £55,000 - 21
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.02%) Documentum
3 12 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.24%) SAS
5 3 (0.47%) Confluence
5 3 (0.47%) WinCC
6 2 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (9.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (4.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.31%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.31%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.31%) SPSS
7 2 (0.31%) Stata
Business Applications
1 16 (2.49%) TrackWise
2 4 (0.62%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (0.47%) Q-Pulse
4 2 (0.31%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (8.24%) Azure
2 43 (6.69%) Power Platform
3 33 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (3.27%) PowerApps
5 18 (2.80%) SaaS
6 12 (1.87%) AWS
6 12 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (1.87%) Power Automate
7 11 (1.71%) OneDrive
7 11 (1.71%) ShareGate
8 9 (1.40%) Google Analytics
8 9 (1.40%) Google Tag Manager
9 7 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (1.09%) GCP
10 6 (0.93%) GitHub
11 5 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (0.62%) BigCommerce
13 3 (0.47%) PaaS
14 2 (0.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.40%) Firewall
2 7 (1.09%) Ethernet
2 7 (1.09%) Intranet
3 6 (0.93%) Network Security
3 6 (0.93%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.78%) DHCP
4 5 (0.78%) DNS
4 5 (0.78%) RS-232
5 4 (0.62%) Bluetooth
5 4 (0.62%) Internet
5 4 (0.62%) Wireless
6 3 (0.47%) LAN
6 3 (0.47%) SAN
6 3 (0.47%) VSAN
7 2 (0.31%) WAN
7 2 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.16%) Modbus
8 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (5.60%) Power BI
2 23 (3.58%) SQL Server
3 14 (2.18%) Tableau
4 11 (1.71%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.56%) Big Data
5 10 (1.56%) Metadata
6 9 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 9 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.40%) MySQL
7 8 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.09%) Looker
8 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 7 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (0.62%) GIS
10 3 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.16%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (2.18%) Git
2 11 (1.71%) JIRA
3 9 (1.40%) Postman
4 7 (1.09%) Subversion
5 6 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.78%) JMeter
6 5 (0.78%) Newman
6 5 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 5 (0.78%) Selenium
7 4 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
7 4 (0.62%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.47%) MSTest
8 3 (0.47%) NUnit
9 2 (0.31%) GitLab
9 2 (0.31%) gulp
9 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.16%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.16%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 273 (42.46%) Manufacturing
2 267 (41.52%) Social Skills
3 125 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (9.33%) Finance
6 43 (6.69%) Automotive
6 43 (6.69%) Marketing
7 39 (6.07%) Legal
8 35 (5.44%) Retail
9 28 (4.35%) Aerospace
10 23 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (3.42%) Electronics
12 17 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 13 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.40%) Aviation
15 7 (1.09%) Banking
16 6 (0.93%) Law
17 5 (0.78%) German Language
17 5 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 97 (15.09%) Senior
2 76 (11.82%) Analyst
3 68 (10.58%) Lead
4 40 (6.22%) Project Manager
4 40 (6.22%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 39 (6.07%) QA Manager
6 36 (5.60%) QA Specialist
7 25 (3.89%) Technical Leader
8 24 (3.73%) IT Manager
9 22 (3.42%) Software Engineer
10 20 (3.11%) Developer
11 18 (2.80%) QA Leader
11 18 (2.80%) Research Analyst
12 17 (2.64%) Business Manager
12 17 (2.64%) Systems Manager
13 16 (2.49%) Associate Director
13 16 (2.49%) QA Officer
14 15 (2.33%) Data Scientist
15 14 (2.18%) Business Development Manager
15 14 (2.18%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.49%) .NET
2 8 (1.24%) .NET Framework
3 6 (0.93%) HTML
3 6 (0.93%) Web Services
4 5 (0.78%) Swagger
4 5 (0.78%) XML
5 4 (0.62%) Gherkin
5 4 (0.62%) React
5 4 (0.62%) XSLT
5 4 (0.62%) Yocto
6 3 (0.47%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.47%) Blazor
6 3 (0.47%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.47%) Middleware
6 3 (0.47%) Node.js
6 3 (0.47%) WPF
7 2 (0.31%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.31%) Next.js
7 2 (0.31%) Tailwind CSS
7 2 (0.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 120 (18.66%) Management Information System
2 80 (12.44%) Life Science
3 51 (7.93%) Biopharmaceutical
4 46 (7.15%) NHS
5 28 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.27%) FMCG
7 16 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.18%) LIMS
9 12 (1.87%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
10 10 (1.56%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
11 9 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.09%) Operational Technology
13 6 (0.93%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.93%) SCADA
14 4 (0.62%) Fat Client
14 4 (0.62%) IoT
14 4 (0.62%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.62%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.80%) Windows
2 10 (1.56%) Linux
2 10 (1.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (27.99%) QMS
2 126 (19.60%) Validation
3 83 (12.91%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (12.44%) Mentoring
5 68 (10.58%) CAPA
6 65 (10.11%) Biotechnology
6 65 (10.11%) Project Management
7 56 (8.71%) Coaching
8 49 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (7.47%) Business Development
9 48 (7.47%) DevOps
9 48 (7.47%) Supplier Management
10 47 (7.31%) Chemistry
11 46 (7.15%) Line Management
12 41 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (6.38%) Quality Management
13 39 (6.07%) Roadmaps
14 37 (5.75%) Change Control
14 37 (5.75%) Data Analysis
15 36 (5.60%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 53 (8.24%) SQL
2 33 (5.13%) C#
3 26 (4.04%) Python
4 20 (3.11%) R
5 15 (2.33%) C
6 10 (1.56%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.24%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.78%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.62%) Bash
9 4 (0.62%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.62%) Groovy
9 4 (0.62%) Java
10 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.31%) JSX
11 2 (0.31%) PHP
11 2 (0.31%) VB
12 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 239 (37.17%) Degree
2 48 (7.47%) Master's Degree
3 30 (4.67%) PhD
4 22 (3.42%) DBS Check
5 20 (3.11%) CIPD
6 11 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (1.71%) MBA
6 11 (1.71%) NVQ Level 3
7 10 (1.56%) CFA
7 10 (1.56%) CIMA
8 9 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.78%) A+ Certification
11 5 (0.78%) CISSP
11 5 (0.78%) HNC
12 4 (0.62%) CISA
12 4 (0.62%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.62%) PMP
13 3 (0.47%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (36.24%) QA
2 207 (32.19%) GMP
3 34 (5.29%) GxP
4 28 (4.35%) GLP
4 28 (4.35%) Good Clinical Practice
5 17 (2.64%) GDPR
5 17 (2.64%) ISO 13485
6 14 (2.18%) ISO 9001
6 14 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (2.02%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 5 (0.78%) GAMP
9 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.62%) COSHH
10 4 (0.62%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.62%) IEC 62304
10 4 (0.62%) PMO
10 4 (0.62%) SLA
11 3 (0.47%) NIST
12 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.78%) Docker
3 5 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.62%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (2.18%) Terraform
2 13 (2.02%) SCOM
3 6 (0.93%) Ansible
4 4 (0.62%) Functional Safety
5 3 (0.47%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.47%) FortiGate
5 3 (0.47%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.47%) SCCM
5 3 (0.47%) Wonderware InTouch
6 2 (0.31%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.16%) DatAdvantage
7 1 (0.16%) Puppet
7 1 (0.16%) QRadar
7 1 (0.16%) Stealthwatch
7 1 (0.16%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.98%) Google
3 29 (4.51%) SAP
4 13 (2.02%) VMware
5 11 (1.71%) Nintex
6 9 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.24%) Databricks
8 6 (0.93%) Siemens
9 5 (0.78%) Rockwell
9 5 (0.78%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.62%) AVEVA
10 4 (0.62%) Cisco
10 4 (0.62%) HP
10 4 (0.62%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.62%) SYSPRO
11 3 (0.47%) Adobe
11 3 (0.47%) Allen-Bradley
11 3 (0.47%) New Relic
11 3 (0.47%) RedGate
11 3 (0.47%) Wonderware