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 5 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 272 284
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 +98
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 111 83 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.66% 0.59%
As % of the General category 1.04% 0.98% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 67 54
10th Percentile £361 £450 £414
25th Percentile £438 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £1,000 £734
90th Percentile £718 £1,200 £872
England median daily rate £503 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -10.67% +7.14% +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 £75.00 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +130.77% +7.76% -16.22%

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 10,710 8,490 11,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.16% 67.55% 63.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,963 5,734 7,967
10th Percentile £346 £340 £335
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 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 137 244
10th Percentile £18.37 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +20.35% -11.50%
75th Percentile £49.38 £51.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £64.86
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.82% -7.20%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -7 11 £650 +52.94% 21
West London -24 4 £455 +1.11% 6
South London - 1 £500 -
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 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.80%) IIS
2 1 (0.90%) CMS
2 1 (0.90%) SAS
2 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.80%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.80%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.80%) InDesign
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.80%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.60%) SAP EWM
3 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.70%) SAP QM
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.80%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.80%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.90%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.90%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.90%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.90%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.90%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.90%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.90%) SAP PP-PI
5 1 (0.90%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.90%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.32%) Azure
2 16 (14.41%) AWS
3 9 (8.11%) GCP
4 6 (5.41%) dbt
4 6 (5.41%) Figma
4 6 (5.41%) SaaS
5 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.70%) Cloud Run
6 3 (2.70%) GitHub
6 3 (2.70%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.80%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.90%) Fivetran
8 1 (0.90%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) Firewall
1 3 (2.70%) VLAN
2 2 (1.80%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.90%) Junos
3 1 (0.90%) Modbus
3 1 (0.90%) Network Security
3 1 (0.90%) RS-485
3 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) Power BI
2 2 (1.80%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.80%) Tableau
3 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.90%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.90%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.90%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.90%) Spark SQL
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.90%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Git
2 4 (3.60%) JIRA
3 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.70%) MLflow
4 1 (0.90%) Hudson
4 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.90%) LSMW
4 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 31 (27.93%) Finance
2 23 (20.72%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.81%) Manufacturing
4 11 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.31%) Retail
7 6 (5.41%) Marketing
8 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.70%) Advertising
9 3 (2.70%) Wearables
10 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.90%) Automotive
11 1 (0.90%) Aviation
11 1 (0.90%) Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.90%) Legal
11 1 (0.90%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (13.51%) Senior
2 11 (9.91%) Data Engineer
2 11 (9.91%) Project Manager
3 10 (9.01%) Consultant
4 8 (7.21%) Accountant
4 8 (7.21%) Systems Accountant
5 7 (6.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (6.31%) Compliance Manager
5 7 (6.31%) Quality Manager
5 7 (6.31%) Risk Manager
6 6 (5.41%) Analyst
6 6 (5.41%) Architect
6 6 (5.41%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.50%) Lead
7 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (3.60%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.60%) Developer
8 4 (3.60%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) FastAPI
2 3 (2.70%) IDoc
2 3 (2.70%) Ray
2 3 (2.70%) React
2 3 (2.70%) REST
3 2 (1.80%) Kafka
3 2 (1.80%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.80%) Playwright
3 2 (1.80%) SAP Core Interface
4 1 (0.90%) Django
4 1 (0.90%) EDI
4 1 (0.90%) Flask
4 1 (0.90%) LangChain
4 1 (0.90%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (0.90%) MACH
4 1 (0.90%) pgvector
4 1 (0.90%) PySpark
4 1 (0.90%) pytest
4 1 (0.90%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.90%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.33%) Life Science
2 8 (7.21%) FMCG
3 7 (6.31%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.50%) Genomics
5 3 (2.70%) LIMS
5 3 (2.70%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.80%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.80%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Motion Graphics
6 2 (1.80%) Omics
6 2 (1.80%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.90%) CRISPR
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.80%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.32%) AI
2 17 (15.32%) Machine Learning
2 17 (15.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (14.41%) Biotechnology
4 15 (13.51%) Agile
4 15 (13.51%) Migration
5 12 (10.81%) Analytics
5 12 (10.81%) Data Analysis
5 12 (10.81%) ERP
6 11 (9.91%) Containerisation
6 11 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (9.91%) Data Science
6 11 (9.91%) DevOps
6 11 (9.91%) Validation
7 10 (9.01%) CI/CD
7 10 (9.01%) Project Delivery
8 9 (8.11%) Risk Management
8 9 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (7.21%) Project Management
10 7 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.72%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) SQL
3 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.80%) ABAP
4 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.90%) Bicep
5 1 (0.90%) C
5 1 (0.90%) C++
5 1 (0.90%) R
5 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) Degree
2 8 (7.21%) ACCA
2 8 (7.21%) CIMA
3 7 (6.31%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.31%) PMP
4 2 (1.80%) CISM
4 2 (1.80%) CISSP
4 2 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) GxP
2 7 (6.31%) GMP
3 5 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.60%) GRC
4 4 (3.60%) PMO
4 4 (3.60%) QA
5 3 (2.70%) GDPR
6 2 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.90%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.90%) ITGC
7 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (8.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.80%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.90%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (18.02%) SAP
2 9 (8.11%) Google
3 5 (4.50%) Databricks
4 4 (3.60%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle
4 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.80%) Adobe
6 2 (1.80%) LabWare
6 2 (1.80%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.90%) Citrix
7 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.90%) IBM
7 1 (0.90%) IFS
7 1 (0.90%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.90%) Juniper
7 1 (0.90%) MapR
7 1 (0.90%) Siebel
7 1 (0.90%) Splunk
7 1 (0.90%) VMware