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 20 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 21 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 5 19 27
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.37% 6.03% 6.24%
As % of the General category 2.66% 10.98% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 20
10th Percentile £610 £490 £223
25th Percentile £625 £501 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £445
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +17.98% -1.11%
75th Percentile £763 £560 £561
90th Percentile £808 £635 £575
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +37.93%

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 general skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 188 173 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 51.65% 54.92% 68.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 71 87
10th Percentile £167 £313 £166
25th Percentile £203 £425 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £625 £586 £549
90th Percentile £681 £638 £594
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.40% +2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 44 170
10th Percentile £13.33 - £13.41
25th Percentile £13.80 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile - £16.85 -
90th Percentile £24.49 £26.53 £21.03
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -21.58% +33.33% -10.13%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pharmaceutical relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend 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 20 January 2026.

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 20 January 2026. 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 -21 4 £688 +30.95% 3
Pharmaceutical
East of England

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Life Science
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) AI
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) LLM
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (40.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 1 (20.00%) Information Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) GPFS
1 2 (40.00%) Lustre
1 2 (40.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
1 2 (40.00%) Salt