Pharmaceutical Contracts in Hertfordshire

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 49 38
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 6 9 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.42% 1.28% 4.06%
As % of the General category 2.56% 2.09% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 28
10th Percentile £240 - £421
25th Percentile £263 £475 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £301 £500 £688
Median % change year-on-year -39.90% -27.27% +25.00%
75th Percentile £400 £525 £725
90th Percentile £460 - £738
East of England median daily rate £575 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - £60.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year - +238.60% -52.75%

All General Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 234 430 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 55.19% 61.17% 51.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 94 201
10th Percentile £199 £193 £259
25th Percentile £406 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.63% -27.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £675
90th Percentile £684 £625 £800
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 223 80
10th Percentile £16.95 £31.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £23.98 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -28.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -6.25% +125.73% -9.13%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in Hertfordshire

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in Hertfordshire

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in Hertfordshire

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in Hertfordshire

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Stevenage 0 4 £301 -39.90% 1
Pharmaceutical
East of England

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ER Studio
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Biotechnology
1 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
2 1 (16.67%) Ontologies
2 1 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
1 1 (16.67%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GMP
2 1 (16.67%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Lustre
1 1 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) TeamSite
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy