Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.17% - 2.31%
As % of the General category 2.88% - 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £475
75th Percentile £488 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £450 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -28.00% +13.64% +17.33%

All General Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 139 97 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 40.76% 49.24% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 32
10th Percentile £218 £153 £259
25th Percentile £416 £389 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.62% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £670 £578 £633
90th Percentile £688 £630 £773
North West median daily rate £500 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +6.84% -6.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 47
10th Percentile £14.76 - -
25th Percentile £26.90 £26.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £31.50 £47.12 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.15% +161.78% -60.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £63.40 £39.23
90th Percentile £64.09 £73.41 £43.10
North West median hourly rate £35.00 £28.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% +13.64%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pharmaceutical relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Preston - 2 £475 -
Pharmaceutical
North West

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 (50.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (25.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Integration Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Pricing Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP SD Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SAP SD Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Robotics
2 1 (25.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Order to Cash
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) SYSPRO
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow