Pharmaceutical Contracts in England

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 215 230 328
Rank change year-on-year +15 +98 +42
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 297 378 381
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.22% 1.02% 0.76%
As % of the General category 1.90% 1.75% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 238 261
10th Percentile £378 £363 £281
25th Percentile £500 £434 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £625
90th Percentile £862 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 8
10th Percentile £16.20 £17.72 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.81 £20.75 £26.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.16 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -16.22% -26.53%
75th Percentile £86.94 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £63.91 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.16 £36.00
% change year-on-year +7.76% -16.22% -26.53%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 15,615 21,610 29,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.01% 58.30% 59.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,138 13,923 20,829
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 1,793 972
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.00 £13.73
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £18.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.16 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% -7.20% +51.16%
75th Percentile £55.76 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.03 £70.72
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £33.44
% change year-on-year -8.33% -10.29% +52.01%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England.

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England.

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London +24 83 £725 +20.83% 264
East of England +7 75 £550 +4.76% 99
North of England -11 62 £550 +7.84% 69
North West -12 53 £550 +7.84% 40
South East +22 8 £231 -60.81% 131
Midlands +17 8 £513 +51.85% 46
North East - 7 - - 10
West Midlands +15 4 £525 +55.56% 27
East Midlands - 4 £500 - 19
Yorkshire +6 2 £343 -37.64% 20
South West +31 1 - - 33
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.01%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) CMS
3 2 (0.67%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 80 (26.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.02%) SAP CO
2 6 (2.02%) SAP ERP
2 6 (2.02%) SAP FI
2 6 (2.02%) SAP FI/CO
3 4 (1.35%) Teamcenter
4 3 (1.01%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.67%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.67%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.67%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.67%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.34%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.34%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 46 (15.49%) AWS
2 14 (4.71%) Azure
3 10 (3.37%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.02%) GitHub
5 5 (1.68%) GCP
5 5 (1.68%) SaaS
5 5 (1.68%) Snowflake
5 5 (1.68%) Veeva
6 4 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (1.35%) Azure AI
6 4 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.35%) Google Gemini
7 3 (1.01%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.67%) dbt
8 2 (0.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.67%) iPaaS
8 2 (0.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.36%) Firewall
2 4 (1.35%) Network Security
3 2 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.67%) NGFW
4 1 (0.34%) IMAP
4 1 (0.34%) POP3
4 1 (0.34%) SMTP
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.37%) Power BI
2 9 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.69%) Metadata
4 6 (2.02%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.35%) Big Data
5 4 (1.35%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.67%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.67%) Text Mining
8 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.34%) DTS
8 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (5.05%) JIRA
2 5 (1.68%) LoadRunner
2 5 (1.68%) NeoLoad
3 4 (1.35%) Git
4 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.01%) JMeter
5 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.67%) ERwin
6 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 87 (29.29%) Finance
2 80 (26.94%) Social Skills
3 36 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.45%) Manufacturing
5 22 (7.41%) Legal
6 11 (3.70%) Banking
6 11 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.69%) Marketing
8 7 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.68%) Italian Language
10 5 (1.68%) Local Government
10 5 (1.68%) Retail
11 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Publishing
13 2 (0.67%) Automotive
13 2 (0.67%) Billing
13 2 (0.67%) Games
13 2 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 52 (17.51%) Lead
2 30 (10.10%) Analyst
3 28 (9.43%) Developer
4 25 (8.42%) Project Manager
5 23 (7.74%) Senior
6 20 (6.73%) Business Analyst
7 17 (5.72%) Architect
8 16 (5.39%) Consultant
9 15 (5.05%) React Developer
10 14 (4.71%) Python Developer
11 13 (4.38%) AWS Developer
12 10 (3.37%) IT Manager
13 8 (2.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 8 (2.69%) Senior Manager
13 8 (2.69%) Test Leader
14 7 (2.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 7 (2.36%) Data Engineer
14 7 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (2.36%) SAP Analyst
14 7 (2.36%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.03%) React
2 7 (2.36%) Middleware
3 4 (1.35%) CSS
3 4 (1.35%) HTML
3 4 (1.35%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.35%) TensorFlow
4 2 (0.67%) LDAP
4 2 (0.67%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.34%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.34%) NumPy
5 1 (0.34%) OLE
5 1 (0.34%) Pandas
5 1 (0.34%) Polars
5 1 (0.34%) PySpark
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.34%) SAPUI5
5 1 (0.34%) SciPy
5 1 (0.34%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.50%) Life Science
2 12 (4.04%) FMCG
3 9 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.69%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.36%) NHS
6 6 (2.02%) LIMS
6 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.02%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.68%) CRISPR
7 5 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.35%) Genomics
9 3 (1.01%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.01%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.01%) EPoS
9 3 (1.01%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.01%) Omics
9 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.01%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.37%) Linux
2 4 (1.35%) Unix
3 3 (1.01%) Windows
4 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (13.80%) Project Management
4 40 (13.47%) Migration
5 39 (13.13%) Analytics
6 38 (12.79%) Agile
7 34 (11.45%) Data Management
8 30 (10.10%) Record to Report
9 28 (9.43%) Process Improvement
10 24 (8.08%) ERP
11 23 (7.74%) Data Governance
12 22 (7.41%) Data Design
13 21 (7.07%) Data Analysis
13 21 (7.07%) Decision-Making
14 20 (6.73%) Data Migration
15 19 (6.40%) Artificial Intelligence
16 18 (6.06%) ETL
17 16 (5.39%) Business Analysis
17 16 (5.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 16 (5.39%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (16.84%) Python
2 14 (4.71%) SQL
3 10 (3.37%) Java
4 9 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.36%) R
6 4 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.01%) Scala
8 2 (0.67%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.67%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.34%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 40 (13.47%) Degree
2 9 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.68%) HNC
4 4 (1.35%) CCA
5 3 (1.01%) CISM
5 3 (1.01%) CISSP
5 3 (1.01%) SAP Certification
6 2 (0.67%) CISA
6 2 (0.67%) PhD
7 1 (0.34%) AAT
7 1 (0.34%) ACCA
7 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.34%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.34%) CIMA
7 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.39%) GxP
3 14 (4.71%) QA
4 8 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.02%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.02%) PMO
6 5 (1.68%) GDPR
6 5 (1.68%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.01%) SLA
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.67%) NIST
8 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.34%) GAAP
9 1 (0.34%) GLP
9 1 (0.34%) GMP
9 1 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) SOX 404
System Software
1 10 (3.37%) Docker
2 5 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.34%) HDFS
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.69%) Terraform
3 4 (1.35%) HP ALM
4 3 (1.01%) TeamSite
5 2 (0.67%) CASB
5 2 (0.67%) PingFederate
5 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (40.74%) SAP
2 33 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.74%) Ariba
4 9 (3.03%) HP
5 8 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.02%) Cisco
7 5 (1.68%) Anaplan
7 5 (1.68%) Fortinet
7 5 (1.68%) Hyperion
7 5 (1.68%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.68%) Splunk
7 5 (1.68%) Veeam
7 5 (1.68%) VMware
8 3 (1.01%) Remedy
8 3 (1.01%) Siemens
9 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.67%) CyberArk
9 2 (0.67%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.67%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.67%) Workday