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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 271 317
Rank change year-on-year -46 +46 +48
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 143 102 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.76% 0.45%
As % of the General category 1.15% 1.11% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 58 35
10th Percentile £300 £347 £400
25th Percentile £400 £481 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £710 £609
90th Percentile £698 £950 £751
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £26.25 - -
25th Percentile £40.13 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £35.00
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.61 £75.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -45.85% +114.29% +75.00%

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 12,449 9,199 10,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.77% 68.61% 62.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,931 6,052 6,567
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 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 177 120
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.05 £17.95
25th Percentile £20.26 £24.50 £25.93
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.49 £36.15
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -12.89% +21.51%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.45 £65.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.08 £36.00
% change year-on-year +15.93% -30.35% +23.08%

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 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -16 14 £525 +22.09% 49
West London -13 9 £360 +26.32% 10
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 (3.50%) IIS
2 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.70%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 25 (17.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.10%) SAP IBP
2 3 (2.10%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.40%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.70%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.70%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.70%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.70%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.70%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.70%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.70%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.70%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.88%) Azure
2 21 (14.69%) AWS
3 14 (9.79%) GCP
4 13 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.39%) GitHub
5 12 (8.39%) Snowflake
6 8 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.90%) dbt
8 5 (3.50%) Cloud Run
9 4 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.80%) Serverless
10 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.10%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (2.10%) Figma
10 3 (2.10%) Veeva
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.40%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) Firewall
1 5 (3.50%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.10%) DNS
2 3 (2.10%) WAN
3 2 (1.40%) Network Security
3 2 (1.40%) VLAN
3 2 (1.40%) VPN
3 2 (1.40%) X.21
4 1 (0.70%) CTI
4 1 (0.70%) NGFW
4 1 (0.70%) PBX
4 1 (0.70%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.70%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.09%) Power BI
2 6 (4.20%) SAP HANA
3 5 (3.50%) SAP BW
4 4 (2.80%) Metadata
4 4 (2.80%) Neo4j
5 3 (2.10%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.10%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.10%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.10%) Tableau
6 2 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.40%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.70%) Milvus
7 1 (0.70%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.70%) Stardog
7 1 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Git
1 5 (3.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.40%) GitLab
2 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.70%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) LSMW
General
1 51 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 36 (25.17%) Finance
3 27 (18.88%) Manufacturing
4 20 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.69%) Marketing
6 10 (6.99%) Legal
7 9 (6.29%) Retail
8 7 (4.90%) Banking
9 6 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.10%) Law
11 3 (2.10%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.40%) Back Office
12 2 (1.40%) Front Office
12 2 (1.40%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.40%) Spanish Language
12 2 (1.40%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (19.58%) Analyst
2 19 (13.29%) Senior
3 16 (11.19%) Business Analyst
4 15 (10.49%) Consultant
4 15 (10.49%) Project Manager
5 13 (9.09%) Architect
5 13 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.69%) Lead
7 8 (5.59%) SAP Consultant
7 8 (5.59%) SAP Manager
8 7 (4.90%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.20%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) SAP Architect
11 4 (2.80%) Business Process Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Network Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Process Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Senior Business Analyst
11 4 (2.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.39%) REST
2 7 (4.90%) Terraform
3 6 (4.20%) React
4 5 (3.50%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.50%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (3.50%) SAPUI5
4 5 (3.50%) SOAP
5 4 (2.80%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.10%) Kafka
6 3 (2.10%) SAP Basis
6 3 (2.10%) SAP PI
7 2 (1.40%) .NET
7 2 (1.40%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.40%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.40%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.40%) Playwright
7 2 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.70%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (0.70%) SAP Core Interface
Miscellaneous
1 52 (36.36%) Life Science
2 16 (11.19%) FMCG
3 15 (10.49%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.99%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.90%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.50%) Genomics
6 5 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.80%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.80%) Biopharmaceutical
7 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.10%) LIMS
8 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.10%) NHS
8 3 (2.10%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.10%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.40%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (23.08%) AI
3 30 (20.98%) Agile
4 25 (17.48%) Roadmaps
5 23 (16.08%) Analytics
5 23 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (14.69%) Validation
7 20 (13.99%) Migration
8 19 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (12.59%) Decision-Making
9 18 (12.59%) DevOps
10 17 (11.89%) CI/CD
11 16 (11.19%) Data Governance
11 16 (11.19%) Workflow
12 15 (10.49%) Change Management
12 15 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (10.49%) User Acceptance Testing
13 14 (9.79%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (9.79%) Requirements Gathering
14 13 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.69%) SQL
2 20 (13.99%) Python
3 4 (2.80%) ABAP
4 3 (2.10%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.40%) C#
5 2 (1.40%) Cypher
6 1 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.70%) Gremlin
6 1 (0.70%) Java
6 1 (0.70%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 25 (17.48%) Degree
2 11 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 10 (6.99%) PMP
4 4 (2.80%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.10%) CISM
5 3 (2.10%) CISSP
5 3 (2.10%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.10%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.40%) CAPM
6 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) CSPO
6 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.40%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.70%) APMG
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CBAP
7 1 (0.70%) CCSP
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.70%) CRISC
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.59%) Data Quality
1 18 (12.59%) GxP
2 9 (6.29%) QA
3 8 (5.59%) GDPR
3 8 (5.59%) GRC
4 6 (4.20%) HIPAA
4 6 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.50%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (2.80%) GMP
6 4 (2.80%) PMO
7 3 (2.10%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.70%) NCSC
8 1 (0.70%) NIST
8 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.70%) SLA
8 1 (0.70%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (4.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.10%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.70%) Grafana
2 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 31 (21.68%) SAP
2 13 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.90%) Google
4 5 (3.50%) Oracle
4 5 (3.50%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.50%) Zscaler
5 4 (2.80%) Ariba
5 4 (2.80%) Databricks
6 3 (2.10%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.40%) Cisco
7 2 (1.40%) Informatica
7 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.70%) Aquila
8 1 (0.70%) Avaya
8 1 (0.70%) Foundry
8 1 (0.70%) Genesys
8 1 (0.70%) LabWare
8 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.70%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.70%) OpenText