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 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 355 387
Rank change year-on-year -44 +32 +130
Contract jobs citing Biopharmaceutical 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.018% 0.016% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.049% 0.044% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £568
25th Percentile - £281 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £288 £600
Median % change year-on-year +91.30% -52.08% -
75th Percentile £582 £294 £625
90th Percentile £601 - £633
England median daily rate £550 £350 £600
% change year-on-year +57.14% -41.67% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £30.16
England median hourly rate £17.44 - £30.16

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 6,119 4,549 5,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.74% 35.43% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,961 3,036 4,207
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £706
90th Percentile £800 £850 £825
England median daily rate £513 £543 £545
% change year-on-year -5.53% -0.46% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 73 168
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.29 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.41 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.04 £35.89 £29.36
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +22.24% -16.11%
75th Percentile £58.21 £56.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £75.35 £80.75 £65.53
England median hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.70% +25.45% +15.59%

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

Biopharmaceutical
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
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
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biopharmaceutical within the London region over the 6 months to 22 March 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
West London - 2 £550 - 1
Biopharmaceutical
England

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Health Technology
1 2 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Life Science
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Genomics
2 1 (33.33%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Biotechnology
2 2 (66.67%) Budget Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Biomedicine
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PMI Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PMP
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GxP
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
1 2 (66.67%) Sitecore