Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 268 287
Rank change year-on-year -24 +19 +100
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 115 81 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.64% 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.10% 0.95% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 64 55
10th Percentile £354 £433 £430
25th Percentile £472 £513 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% +16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £880 £731
90th Percentile £788 £1,178 £862
England median daily rate £516 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.14% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £23.75
25th Percentile £72.50 - £28.56
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £30.16
75th Percentile £77.50 - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £44.58
England median hourly rate £70.00 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +115.38% +7.76% +0.53%

All General Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 10,473 8,505 11,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.01% 66.88% 63.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,808 5,744 8,152
10th Percentile £350 £338 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 140 254
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.99 £15.65
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.06 £49.77
90th Percentile £72.88 £77.59 £72.13
England median hourly rate £25.50 £30.00 £26.03
% change year-on-year -15.00% +15.25% -25.63%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in London

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in London over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in London

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
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 Pharmaceutical within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London -3 13 £700 +34.94% 19
West London -19 2 £550 +22.22% 7
South London - 2 £506 - 2
Pharmaceutical
England

Pharmaceutical
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.74%) Confluence
2 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.74%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.74%) InDesign
3 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.74%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (7.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.48%) SAP EWM
3 3 (2.61%) SAP QM
4 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.74%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.74%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.87%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.87%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.87%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.87%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.87%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.87%) SAP PP-PI
5 1 (0.87%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.87%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.52%) Azure
2 18 (15.65%) AWS
3 17 (14.78%) GCP
4 8 (6.96%) GitHub
5 7 (6.09%) dbt
6 6 (5.22%) Cloud Run
6 6 (5.22%) Figma
6 6 (5.22%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.35%) SaaS
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.61%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.61%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.87%) IaaS
10 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Firewall
1 3 (2.61%) Network Security
2 2 (1.74%) Wireless
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (0.87%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.87%) Junos
3 1 (0.87%) Modbus
3 1 (0.87%) RS-485
3 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) VLAN
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) Power BI
2 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.74%) Tableau
5 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Power Query
5 1 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.87%) QlikView
5 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.87%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.87%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) JIRA
3 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.61%) MLflow
4 1 (0.87%) Hudson
4 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 28 (24.35%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.74%) Finance
3 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.83%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.96%) Marketing
6 7 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Retail
8 3 (2.61%) Advertising
8 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Wearables
9 2 (1.74%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.87%) Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Billing
10 1 (0.87%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.87%) Legal
10 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (11.30%) Data Engineer
2 12 (10.43%) Senior
3 10 (8.70%) Consultant
4 8 (6.96%) Accountant
4 8 (6.96%) Systems Accountant
5 7 (6.09%) Analyst
5 7 (6.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (6.09%) Compliance Manager
5 7 (6.09%) Developer
5 7 (6.09%) Project Manager
5 7 (6.09%) Quality Manager
5 7 (6.09%) Risk Manager
6 6 (5.22%) Architect
6 6 (5.22%) IT Manager
6 6 (5.22%) Lead
7 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
7 5 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.35%) Python Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.83%) FastAPI
2 6 (5.22%) LangGraph
2 6 (5.22%) pytest
3 3 (2.61%) IDoc
3 3 (2.61%) Ray
4 2 (1.74%) Kafka
4 2 (1.74%) Playwright
4 2 (1.74%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.74%) React
4 2 (1.74%) SAP Core Interface
5 1 (0.87%) Django
5 1 (0.87%) Flask
5 1 (0.87%) LangChain
5 1 (0.87%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.87%) MACH
5 1 (0.87%) pgvector
5 1 (0.87%) PySpark
5 1 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.87%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (34.78%) Life Science
2 10 (8.70%) FMCG
3 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.09%) Genomics
5 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.61%) LIMS
5 3 (2.61%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.74%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (1.74%) Omics
6 2 (1.74%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.87%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.09%) AI
2 26 (22.61%) Machine Learning
3 23 (20.00%) Biotechnology
4 22 (19.13%) Agile
5 18 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (13.04%) Data Science
7 14 (12.17%) Containerisation
7 14 (12.17%) DevOps
8 13 (11.30%) Analytics
9 12 (10.43%) Data Analysis
9 12 (10.43%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (10.43%) ERP
9 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (9.57%) Project Delivery
10 11 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (9.57%) Test Automation
10 11 (9.57%) Validation
11 10 (8.70%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (8.70%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.48%) Python
2 15 (13.04%) SQL
3 2 (1.74%) ABAP
3 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.74%) R
3 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.87%) Bicep
4 1 (0.87%) C
4 1 (0.87%) C++
4 1 (0.87%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (12.17%) Degree
2 8 (6.96%) ACCA
2 8 (6.96%) CIMA
3 4 (3.48%) PMI Certification
3 4 (3.48%) PMP
4 2 (1.74%) CISSP
4 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.87%) CCA
5 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) GxP
2 5 (4.35%) GMP
3 4 (3.48%) QA
4 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) PMO
5 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) GRC
5 2 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.87%) ITGC
6 1 (0.87%) MiFID
System Software
1 14 (12.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.61%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.87%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (17.39%) SAP
2 14 (12.17%) Google
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.48%) Databricks
4 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.61%) Oracle
6 2 (1.74%) Adobe
6 2 (1.74%) LabWare
6 2 (1.74%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.74%) VMware
6 2 (1.74%) Zscaler
7 1 (0.87%) Avaya
7 1 (0.87%) Citrix
7 1 (0.87%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.87%) Genesys
7 1 (0.87%) IFS
7 1 (0.87%) Juniper
7 1 (0.87%) MapR
7 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft