Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 21 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 24 26 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.88% 6.05% 6.83%
As % of the General category 11.59% 11.06% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 19
10th Percentile £379 £363 £265
25th Percentile £501 £456 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +13.89% -1.37%
75th Percentile £650 £547 £519
90th Percentile £688 £641 £537
East of England median daily rate £580 £500 £506
% change year-on-year +16.00% -1.23% -2.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
75th Percentile - - £18.29
90th Percentile - - £32.75
East of England median hourly rate - £60.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +238.60% -34.37%

All General Skills
Cambridgeshire

Pharmaceutical falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 207 235 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 59.31% 54.65% 65.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 60 115
10th Percentile £213 £273 £202
25th Percentile £365 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £585 £538
90th Percentile £688 £650 £633
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 107 180
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £18.50 £16.85 £17.72
90th Percentile £31.00 £48.75 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.12 £17.72
% change year-on-year -21.30% +115.12% -10.55%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in Cambridgeshire

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in Cambridgeshire

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge 0 22 £544 +6.10% 7
Peterborough - 1 £675 - 1
Pharmaceutical
East of England

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 2 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (8.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (12.50%) Serverless
2 3 (12.50%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Route 53
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) Text Mining
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
General
1 1 (4.17%) Finance
1 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Information Scientist
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Amplify
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Life Science
2 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) CRISPR
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Business Case
1 6 (25.00%) IT Strategy
1 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 6 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (20.83%) Analytics
2 5 (20.83%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 4 (16.67%) Change Management
3 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Supplier Management
5 2 (8.33%) Economics
5 2 (8.33%) Health Informatics
5 2 (8.33%) Informatics
5 2 (8.33%) Machine Learning
5 2 (8.33%) Ontologies
5 2 (8.33%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) MATLAB
4 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) SAP
1 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 3 (12.50%) Workday
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) SnapLogic