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 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 280 300
Rank change year-on-year -23 +20 +74
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 150 93 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.69% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.20% 1.00% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 54 36
10th Percentile £300 £309 £400
25th Percentile £400 £500 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £621 £723 £620
90th Percentile £694 £950 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £26.25 - -
25th Percentile £35.50 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.72 £95.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.24% +137.50% +77.54%

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 12,540 9,314 10,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.59% 69.16% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,018 6,144 6,716
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 183 121
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.04 £24.64 £25.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -7.14% +22.81%
75th Percentile £45.16 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.03 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +23.88% -34.68% +29.41%

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 19 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in London over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in London

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 19 September 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 -18 15 £525 +22.09% 34
West London -14 10 £400 +40.35% 11
East London - 1 £225 - 7
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 5 (3.33%) IIS
2 3 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.33%) InDesign
2 2 (1.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.67%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.67%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (14.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.00%) SAP IBP
2 3 (2.00%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.33%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.67%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.67%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.67%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.67%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.67%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.67%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.67%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 32 (21.33%) Azure
2 25 (16.67%) AWS
3 15 (10.00%) GCP
4 12 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.33%) GitHub
5 11 (7.33%) Snowflake
6 8 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.67%) dbt
7 7 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.33%) Cloud Run
8 5 (3.33%) Figma
9 4 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.67%) Serverless
10 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (2.00%) Veeva
11 2 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.33%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.33%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.33%) Firewall
1 5 (3.33%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.00%) DNS
2 3 (2.00%) WAN
3 2 (1.33%) VLAN
3 2 (1.33%) VPN
3 2 (1.33%) X.21
4 1 (0.67%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.00%) Power BI
2 5 (3.33%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.67%) Metadata
3 4 (2.67%) Neo4j
3 4 (2.67%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.00%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.00%) Tableau
5 2 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.33%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.33%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.67%) Milvus
6 1 (0.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.00%) Git
2 5 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.33%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.33%) GitLab
3 2 (1.33%) JIRA
3 2 (1.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.67%) LSMW
General
1 50 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.67%) Finance
3 26 (17.33%) Manufacturing
4 20 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.00%) Marketing
6 11 (7.33%) Retail
7 7 (4.67%) Legal
8 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.33%) Banking
10 4 (2.67%) Health Technology
11 3 (2.00%) Law
12 2 (1.33%) Back Office
12 2 (1.33%) Front Office
12 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.33%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.33%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (16.67%) Analyst
2 20 (13.33%) Senior
3 17 (11.33%) Project Manager
4 16 (10.67%) Consultant
5 14 (9.33%) Data Engineer
5 14 (9.33%) Lead
6 13 (8.67%) Business Analyst
7 12 (8.00%) Architect
8 8 (5.33%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (4.67%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.67%) SAP Manager
10 6 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Business Process Analyst
12 4 (2.67%) Change Manager
12 4 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Data Business Analyst
12 4 (2.67%) Process Analyst
12 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.33%) REST
2 9 (6.00%) Terraform
3 6 (4.00%) React
4 5 (3.33%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.67%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.67%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (2.67%) SAPUI5
5 4 (2.67%) SOAP
6 3 (2.00%) Kafka
7 2 (1.33%) .NET
7 2 (1.33%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.33%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.33%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.33%) Playwright
7 2 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.33%) SAP Basis
7 2 (1.33%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.67%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 56 (37.33%) Life Science
2 15 (10.00%) FMCG
3 14 (9.33%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.00%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.67%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.00%) Biopharmaceutical
7 5 (3.33%) Genomics
8 4 (2.67%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.00%) LIMS
9 3 (2.00%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.00%) NHS
9 3 (2.00%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.33%) Graphic Design
10 2 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 35 (23.33%) AI
3 33 (22.00%) Agile
4 24 (16.00%) Analytics
4 24 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (15.33%) Validation
6 22 (14.67%) Migration
7 21 (14.00%) Roadmaps
8 20 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 19 (12.67%) Decision-Making
9 19 (12.67%) DevOps
10 18 (12.00%) Data Governance
10 18 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (10.67%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (10.00%) Change Management
12 15 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (10.00%) Workflow
13 14 (9.33%) Machine Learning
14 13 (8.67%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (8.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.67%) Python
2 20 (13.33%) SQL
3 4 (2.67%) ABAP
4 3 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.33%) C#
5 2 (1.33%) Cypher
6 1 (0.67%) Bicep
6 1 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.67%) Gremlin
6 1 (0.67%) Java
6 1 (0.67%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (15.33%) Degree
2 13 (8.67%) PMI Certification
2 13 (8.67%) PMP
3 4 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.00%) CISM
4 3 (2.00%) CISSP
4 3 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.33%) CAPM
5 2 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.33%) CSPO
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.33%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) CRISC
6 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.00%) GxP
2 18 (12.00%) Data Quality
3 9 (6.00%) GDPR
3 9 (6.00%) QA
4 8 (5.33%) GRC
5 6 (4.00%) HIPAA
5 6 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (4.00%) PMO
5 6 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (3.33%) PCI DSS
7 4 (2.67%) GMP
8 3 (2.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (1.33%) NIST
10 1 (0.67%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.67%) NCSC
10 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.67%) SLA
10 1 (0.67%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (6.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.67%) Grafana
2 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (18.00%) SAP
2 13 (8.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.33%) Oracle
4 7 (4.67%) Google
5 5 (3.33%) Databricks
5 5 (3.33%) Palo Alto
5 5 (3.33%) Zscaler
6 4 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.00%) Ariba
7 3 (2.00%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.33%) Adobe
8 2 (1.33%) Informatica
8 2 (1.33%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.67%) Aquila
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco
9 1 (0.67%) Foundry
9 1 (0.67%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.67%) OpenText
9 1 (0.67%) Siebel
9 1 (0.67%) Splunk