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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 12 23
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -3
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 12 35 36
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.39% 10.77% 7.38%
As % of the General category 6.78% 19.13% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 28
10th Percentile - £296 £363
25th Percentile £406 £379 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £513 £410
Median % change year-on-year -19.51% +25.00% -13.68%
75th Percentile £419 £650 £525
90th Percentile £580 £688 £545
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £478
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.06% -4.40%

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 177 183 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 50.00% 56.31% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 98 79
10th Percentile £211 £200 £225
25th Percentile £406 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £410
Median % change year-on-year +3.36% +17.99% -8.89%
75th Percentile £579 £597 £538
90th Percentile £641 £678 £609
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 123
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.15 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.22 £15.81 £15.38
Median hourly rate £15.28 £18.54 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.59% +14.20% +11.93%
75th Percentile £18.23 £31.00 £21.46
90th Percentile £30.70 £31.86 £56.75
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year -35.38% -14.74% +93.90%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -14 12 £413 -18.72% 8
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Developer
1 2 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
1 2 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) CRISPR
2 3 (25.00%) Life Science
3 1 (8.33%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (66.67%) Bioinformatics
3 3 (25.00%) Biotechnology
3 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Informatics
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Commercialisation
5 1 (8.33%) Data Governance
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (66.67%) R
3 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GxP
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Ariba