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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 270 287
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +88
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 110 80 116
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the General category 1.03% 0.93% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 65 59
10th Percentile £361 £435 £422
25th Percentile £472 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% +9.59%
75th Percentile £650 £880 £731
90th Percentile £788 £1,200 £821
England median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 £75.00 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +130.77% +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 10,660 8,589 11,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.91% 67.47% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,949 5,808 8,078
10th Percentile £345 £337 £334
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £701 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 139 249
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £15.90
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +18.97% -10.77%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.63 £46.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.83
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.11% -14.79%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -2 13 £675 +30.12% 8
West London -25 2 £550 +22.22% 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 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.91%) SAS
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.82%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.82%) InDesign
2 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.82%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (8.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.64%) SAP EWM
3 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.73%) SAP QM
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.82%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.82%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.91%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.91%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.91%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.91%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.91%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.91%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.91%) SAP PP-PI
5 1 (0.91%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.91%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.27%) Azure
2 18 (16.36%) AWS
3 15 (13.64%) GCP
4 8 (7.27%) dbt
5 6 (5.45%) Figma
5 6 (5.45%) SaaS
6 5 (4.55%) GitHub
7 4 (3.64%) Cloud Run
7 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.64%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.73%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.73%) Azure AKS
8 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.73%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.82%) Dagster
9 2 (1.82%) Fivetran
9 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.82%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) Ethernet
1 1 (0.91%) Firewall
1 1 (0.91%) Junos
1 1 (0.91%) Modbus
1 1 (0.91%) Network Security
1 1 (0.91%) RS-485
1 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.91%) VLAN
1 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) Power BI
2 3 (2.73%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.91%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.91%) Tableau
4 1 (0.91%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Git
2 4 (3.64%) JIRA
3 3 (2.73%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.73%) MLflow
4 1 (0.91%) Hudson
4 1 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.91%) LSMW
4 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 27 (24.55%) Finance
2 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (6.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.36%) Retail
7 6 (5.45%) Marketing
8 3 (2.73%) Advertising
8 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Wearables
9 2 (1.82%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.91%) Automotive
10 1 (0.91%) Aviation
10 1 (0.91%) Billing
10 1 (0.91%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Legal
10 1 (0.91%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (14.55%) Senior
2 14 (12.73%) Data Engineer
3 10 (9.09%) Consultant
4 8 (7.27%) Accountant
4 8 (7.27%) Systems Accountant
5 7 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (6.36%) Compliance Manager
5 7 (6.36%) Quality Manager
5 7 (6.36%) Risk Manager
6 6 (5.45%) Analyst
6 6 (5.45%) Architect
6 6 (5.45%) Developer
6 6 (5.45%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Backend Developer
7 5 (4.55%) Lead
7 5 (4.55%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Python Developer
7 5 (4.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.36%) FastAPI
2 4 (3.64%) LangGraph
2 4 (3.64%) pytest
3 3 (2.73%) IDoc
3 3 (2.73%) Ray
4 2 (1.82%) Kafka
4 2 (1.82%) Playwright
4 2 (1.82%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.82%) React
4 2 (1.82%) SAP Core Interface
5 1 (0.91%) EDI
5 1 (0.91%) Flask
5 1 (0.91%) LangChain
5 1 (0.91%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.91%) MACH
5 1 (0.91%) pgvector
5 1 (0.91%) PySpark
5 1 (0.91%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.91%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (31.82%) Life Science
2 9 (8.18%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.27%) FMCG
4 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.45%) Genomics
6 5 (4.55%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.73%) LIMS
7 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.82%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.82%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.82%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (1.82%) Omics
8 2 (1.82%) Pharmacovigilance
9 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.45%) AI
2 21 (19.09%) Machine Learning
3 18 (16.36%) Biotechnology
4 15 (13.64%) Agile
5 14 (12.73%) Data Science
6 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (10.91%) Containerisation
7 12 (10.91%) Data Analysis
7 12 (10.91%) DevOps
7 12 (10.91%) ERP
8 11 (10.00%) Migration
9 10 (9.09%) Analytics
9 10 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 10 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (9.09%) Validation
10 9 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (8.18%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.27%) Data Engineering
11 8 (7.27%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.64%) Python
2 17 (15.45%) SQL
3 2 (1.82%) ABAP
3 2 (1.82%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.91%) Bicep
4 1 (0.91%) C
4 1 (0.91%) C++
4 1 (0.91%) R
4 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.00%) Degree
2 8 (7.27%) ACCA
2 8 (7.27%) CIMA
3 3 (2.73%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.73%) PMP
4 2 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.82%) GxP
2 5 (4.55%) GMP
3 4 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.64%) PMO
3 4 (3.64%) QA
4 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.82%) GDPR
5 2 (1.82%) GRC
6 1 (0.91%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.91%) ITGC
6 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.91%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.91%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (18.18%) SAP
2 12 (10.91%) Google
3 5 (4.55%) Databricks
4 4 (3.64%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.64%) Oracle
4 4 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.82%) Adobe
6 2 (1.82%) LabWare
6 2 (1.82%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.91%) Citrix
7 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.91%) IBM
7 1 (0.91%) IFS
7 1 (0.91%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.91%) Juniper
7 1 (0.91%) MapR
7 1 (0.91%) Siebel
7 1 (0.91%) Splunk
7 1 (0.91%) VMware