Biopharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in London

Biopharmaceutical
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biopharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biopharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 365 398
Rank change year-on-year -5 +33 +156
Contract jobs citing Biopharmaceutical 7 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.048% 0.013% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.13% 0.039% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile £950 - £638
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £614 £413 £575
% change year-on-year +48.85% -28.26% +21.05%

All Generic Skills
London

Biopharmaceutical falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,569 5,087 6,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.55% 34.26% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,588 3,236 4,428
10th Percentile £343 £325 £313
25th Percentile £431 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £722
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 65 108
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.72
25th Percentile £20.41 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +17.21% -14.69%
75th Percentile £46.88 £58.75 £49.28
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £65.60
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -21.62% -12.94% +25.67%

Biopharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Biopharmaceutical job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biopharmaceutical.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biopharmaceutical in London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Biopharmaceutical in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biopharmaceutical.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Biopharmaceutical

Biopharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Pipelines
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (28.57%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) CircleCI
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (42.86%) Publishing
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Health
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
4 1 (14.29%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DataOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Healthcare Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Genomics
1 3 (42.86%) Omics
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Biomedicine
3 3 (42.86%) Code Coverage
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) DataOps
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (42.86%) GitOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Fuel