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

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 24 24 40
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 6.50% 5.59% 7.78%
As % of the General category 11.43% 10.48% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 22
10th Percentile £379 £406 £278
25th Percentile £501 £475 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +12.96% +0.49%
75th Percentile £650 £576 £525
90th Percentile £688 £644 £570
East of England median daily rate £580 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +10.48% -2.78% +4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
75th Percentile - - £20.00
90th Percentile - - £24.25
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 210 229 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 56.91% 53.38% 67.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 64 110
10th Percentile £231 £232 £185
25th Percentile £413 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +7.82% -2.37%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £539
90th Percentile £688 £649 £625
East of England median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 97 183
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% -3.33%
75th Percentile £18.50 £16.85 £17.72
90th Percentile £31.00 £53.75 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £22.54 £30.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -24.88% +69.30% -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 5 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 5 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 -1 22 £550 +4.76% 5
Peterborough - 1 £675 -
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 (8.33%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Weka
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%) iPaaS
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
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%) DevOps Engineer
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
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%) DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (12.50%) Supplier Management
5 2 (8.33%) Benchmarking
5 2 (8.33%) Economics
5 2 (8.33%) ETL
5 2 (8.33%) Informatics
5 2 (8.33%) Ontologies
5 2 (8.33%) Statistical Analysis
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%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) GPFS
2 1 (4.17%) Lustre
2 1 (4.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
1 1 (4.17%) Puppet
1 1 (4.17%) Salt
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