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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 279 311
Rank change year-on-year -30 +32 +66
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 148 92 77
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.69% 0.48%
As % of the General category 1.20% 1.00% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 56 37
10th Percentile £300 £394 £385
25th Percentile £400 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £620 £725 £619
90th Percentile £685 £950 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £26.25 - -
25th Percentile £39.38 - -
Median hourly rate £88.75 - £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 12,338 9,229 10,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.23% 69.14% 62.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,851 6,084 6,737
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -4.78% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £796 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 187 121
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.80 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.64 £24.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.13 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +23.77% -34.68% +40.00%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -16 13 £525 +22.09% 37
West London -11 10 £400 - 17
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 (3.38%) IIS
2 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) CMS
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.35%) InDesign
2 2 (1.35%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.68%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (15.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.03%) SAP IBP
2 3 (2.03%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.35%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.68%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.68%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.68%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.68%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.68%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.68%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.95%) Azure
2 24 (16.22%) AWS
3 15 (10.14%) GCP
4 12 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 11 (7.43%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.76%) GitHub
7 8 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (4.73%) dbt
9 6 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.38%) Cloud Run
10 5 (3.38%) Figma
11 4 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.03%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (2.03%) Serverless
12 3 (2.03%) Veeva
13 2 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (1.35%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.35%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) HTTPS
2 4 (2.70%) Firewall
3 3 (2.03%) DNS
3 3 (2.03%) WAN
4 2 (1.35%) VLAN
4 2 (1.35%) VPN
4 2 (1.35%) X.21
5 1 (0.68%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) Power BI
2 5 (3.38%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.70%) Metadata
3 4 (2.70%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.03%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.03%) Neo4j
4 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.03%) Tableau
5 2 (1.35%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.35%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.68%) Milvus
6 1 (0.68%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Git
2 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.03%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.35%) JIRA
4 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.68%) GitLab
5 1 (0.68%) LSMW
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 51 (34.46%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.65%) Finance
3 28 (18.92%) Manufacturing
4 20 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.43%) Marketing
5 11 (7.43%) Retail
6 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.73%) Legal
7 6 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.38%) Banking
9 4 (2.70%) Health Technology
10 3 (2.03%) Law
11 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.35%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.68%) Aviation
12 1 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) German Language
12 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (16.22%) Analyst
2 19 (12.84%) Senior
3 17 (11.49%) Project Manager
4 15 (10.14%) Consultant
5 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
5 13 (8.78%) Lead
6 12 (8.11%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.43%) Architect
8 8 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (4.73%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) SAP Manager
10 5 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Business Process Analyst
11 4 (2.70%) Change Manager
11 4 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (2.70%) Product Owner
11 4 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.43%) REST
2 8 (5.41%) Terraform
3 6 (4.05%) React
4 5 (3.38%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.70%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.70%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (2.70%) SAPUI5
5 4 (2.70%) SOAP
6 3 (2.03%) Kafka
7 2 (1.35%) .NET
7 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.35%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.35%) Playwright
7 2 (1.35%) SAP Basis
7 2 (1.35%) SAP Core Interface
7 2 (1.35%) SAP PI
8 1 (0.68%) Google JAX
8 1 (0.68%) JAX
8 1 (0.68%) LangChain
8 1 (0.68%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 55 (37.16%) Life Science
2 15 (10.14%) FMCG
3 13 (8.78%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.76%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.73%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.05%) Biopharmaceutical
7 5 (3.38%) Genomics
8 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.03%) LIMS
9 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.03%) NHS
9 3 (2.03%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.35%) Graphic Design
10 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.35%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (23.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 33 (22.30%) Agile
2 33 (22.30%) AI
3 23 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (14.86%) Analytics
4 22 (14.86%) Migration
4 22 (14.86%) Validation
5 20 (13.51%) Roadmaps
6 19 (12.84%) CI/CD
6 19 (12.84%) DevOps
6 19 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (12.16%) Decision-Making
8 17 (11.49%) Data Governance
9 16 (10.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (10.14%) Change Management
10 15 (10.14%) Workflow
11 14 (9.46%) Machine Learning
12 13 (8.78%) Biotechnology
12 13 (8.78%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.19%) Python
2 19 (12.84%) SQL
3 5 (3.38%) ABAP
4 3 (2.03%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.35%) C#
5 2 (1.35%) Cypher
6 1 (0.68%) Bicep
6 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) Gremlin
6 1 (0.68%) Java
6 1 (0.68%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (14.86%) Degree
2 13 (8.78%) PMI Certification
2 13 (8.78%) PMP
3 4 (2.70%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.03%) CISM
4 3 (2.03%) CISSP
4 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.03%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.35%) CAPM
5 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.35%) CSPO
5 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.35%) Postgraduate
5 2 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.19%) GxP
2 17 (11.49%) Data Quality
3 10 (6.76%) QA
4 9 (6.08%) GDPR
5 8 (5.41%) GRC
6 6 (4.05%) HIPAA
6 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (4.05%) PMO
6 6 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
8 4 (2.70%) GMP
9 3 (2.03%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (1.35%) NIST
11 1 (0.68%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.68%) NCSC
11 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.68%) SLA
11 1 (0.68%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (6.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.68%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 28 (18.92%) SAP
2 12 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.41%) Oracle
4 7 (4.73%) Google
5 5 (3.38%) Databricks
6 4 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.70%) Zscaler
7 3 (2.03%) Ariba
7 3 (2.03%) JD Edwards
8 2 (1.35%) Adobe
8 2 (1.35%) Informatica
8 2 (1.35%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.68%) Aquila
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) LabWare
9 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.68%) OpenText
9 1 (0.68%) Siebel
9 1 (0.68%) Splunk