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 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 23 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -10 +19
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 20 21 44
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.57% 5.29% 8.63%
As % of the General category 10.15% 9.91% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 25
10th Percentile £452 £478 £285
25th Percentile £501 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £650 £560 £525
90th Percentile £725 £635 £575
East of England median daily rate £580 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +10.48% +0.96% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
75th Percentile - - £20.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - £60.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +200.00% -25.93%

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 common skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 197 212 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 54.87% 53.40% 68.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 57 113
10th Percentile £210 £238 £176
25th Percentile £381 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +6.95% -0.27%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £550
90th Percentile £700 £641 £623
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 83 182
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £18.50 £16.85 £17.72
90th Percentile £31.00 £48.75 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +3.75% +12.87% -10.55%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 -10 18 £625 +19.05% 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (15.00%) SuccessFactors
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Route 53
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Text Mining
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) AWS Developer
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Integration Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Information Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Amplify
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Life Science
2 2 (10.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Business Case
1 6 (30.00%) IT Strategy
1 6 (30.00%) Roadmaps
1 6 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 6 (30.00%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (25.00%) AI
3 3 (15.00%) Change Management
3 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Supplier Management
4 2 (10.00%) API Management
4 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (10.00%) Feasibility Study
4 2 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (10.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (10.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
1 2 (10.00%) GPFS
1 2 (10.00%) Lustre
1 2 (10.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Puppet
1 2 (10.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (15.00%) Workday
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) SAP