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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 264 296
Rank change year-on-year -31 +32 +101
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 118 87 100
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.70% 0.57%
As % of the General category 1.10% 1.03% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 68 51
10th Percentile £361 £450 £425
25th Percentile £438 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £734 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.47% +22.33% +17.07%
75th Percentile £610 £975 £744
90th Percentile £679 £1,200 £903
England median daily rate £507 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.91% +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 £72.50 £32.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +123.08% +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 10,690 8,416 11,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.43% 67.75% 63.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,919 5,651 7,861
10th Percentile £350 £344 £336
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 142 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.60
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £46.25 £51.07 £44.75
90th Percentile £67.30 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.12
% change year-on-year +11.20% -8.70% -5.88%

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 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 19 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 9 £575 +35.29% 13
West London -20 6 £400 -11.11% 7
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 3 (2.54%) IIS
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) CMS
2 1 (0.85%) SAS
2 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.69%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.69%) InDesign
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.69%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (7.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.54%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.69%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.69%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.85%) SAP CS
4 1 (0.85%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.85%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.85%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.85%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.85%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.85%) SAP PP-PI
4 1 (0.85%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.64%) AWS
2 20 (16.95%) Azure
3 8 (6.78%) GCP
4 7 (5.93%) dbt
5 6 (5.08%) Figma
5 6 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.08%) SaaS
6 4 (3.39%) Cloud Run
7 3 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.54%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.54%) GitHub
7 3 (2.54%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.54%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.69%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.54%) VLAN
3 2 (1.69%) DNS
3 2 (1.69%) VPN
3 2 (1.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.85%) Junos
4 1 (0.85%) Modbus
4 1 (0.85%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) NGFW
4 1 (0.85%) RS-485
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.08%) Power BI
2 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.69%) Tableau
3 1 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.85%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.85%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
3 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) JIRA
3 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.54%) MLflow
4 1 (0.85%) Hudson
4 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.85%) LSMW
4 1 (0.85%) Selenium
General
1 32 (27.12%) Finance
2 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.17%) Manufacturing
4 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.63%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.93%) Retail
7 6 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.24%) Marketing
9 3 (2.54%) Advertising
9 3 (2.54%) Wearables
10 2 (1.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.85%) Automotive
11 1 (0.85%) Aviation
11 1 (0.85%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.85%) Legal
11 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (11.86%) Project Manager
1 14 (11.86%) Senior
2 13 (11.02%) Data Engineer
3 10 (8.47%) Consultant
4 8 (6.78%) Accountant
4 8 (6.78%) Analyst
4 8 (6.78%) Systems Accountant
5 7 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (5.93%) Compliance Manager
5 7 (5.93%) Quality Manager
5 7 (5.93%) Risk Manager
6 6 (5.08%) Architect
6 6 (5.08%) IT Manager
6 6 (5.08%) Lead
7 5 (4.24%) SAP Manager
7 5 (4.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 5 (4.24%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.39%) Designer
8 4 (3.39%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.39%) FastAPI
1 4 (3.39%) REST
2 3 (2.54%) IDoc
2 3 (2.54%) Ray
2 3 (2.54%) React
3 2 (1.69%) Kafka
3 2 (1.69%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.69%) Playwright
3 2 (1.69%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.69%) SAP Core Interface
4 1 (0.85%) ADO
4 1 (0.85%) boto
4 1 (0.85%) EDI
4 1 (0.85%) MACH
4 1 (0.85%) OAuth
4 1 (0.85%) Pandas
4 1 (0.85%) PySpark
4 1 (0.85%) SAML
4 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (33.90%) Life Science
2 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.93%) FMCG
4 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.39%) Genomics
7 3 (2.54%) LIMS
7 3 (2.54%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.69%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.69%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.69%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (1.69%) Omics
8 2 (1.69%) Pharmacovigilance
9 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (22.03%) AI
2 18 (15.25%) Agile
2 18 (15.25%) Biotechnology
2 18 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (12.71%) Machine Learning
3 15 (12.71%) Migration
4 14 (11.86%) Data Analysis
5 13 (11.02%) Analytics
5 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (11.02%) Validation
6 12 (10.17%) ERP
7 11 (9.32%) DevOps
7 11 (9.32%) Project Delivery
7 11 (9.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (8.47%) CI/CD
8 10 (8.47%) Data Science
9 9 (7.63%) Project Management
9 9 (7.63%) Risk Management
10 8 (6.78%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (6.78%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.64%) Python
2 14 (11.86%) SQL
3 3 (2.54%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.69%) ABAP
4 2 (1.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.85%) Bicep
5 1 (0.85%) C
5 1 (0.85%) C++
5 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Degree
2 8 (6.78%) ACCA
2 8 (6.78%) CIMA
2 8 (6.78%) PMI Certification
2 8 (6.78%) PMP
3 3 (2.54%) CISM
3 3 (2.54%) CISSP
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CCSP
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.85%) CRISC
5 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.71%) GxP
2 7 (5.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.93%) GMP
3 6 (5.08%) QA
3 6 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (4.24%) GRC
5 4 (3.39%) GDPR
5 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.39%) PMO
6 3 (2.54%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.54%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.69%) NIST
8 1 (0.85%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.85%) ITGC
8 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.85%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (16.95%) SAP
2 9 (7.63%) Google
3 5 (4.24%) Databricks
4 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.39%) Oracle
5 3 (2.54%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.54%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.69%) Adobe
6 2 (1.69%) LabWare
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.69%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.85%) Citrix
7 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.85%) IFS
7 1 (0.85%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.85%) Juniper
7 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) Siebel
7 1 (0.85%) VMware