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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 281 287
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +110
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 105 67 110
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.49% 0.60%
As % of the General category 1.09% 0.75% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 43 58
10th Percentile £388 £403 £291
25th Percentile £506 £439 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £750 £965 £638
90th Percentile £871 £1,125 £775
England median daily rate £528 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% +4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - - £23.75
25th Percentile £72.50 - £25.35
Median hourly rate £75.00 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +114.29% +16.05% -65.03%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £36.60
90th Percentile - - £42.63
England median hourly rate £75.00 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +130.77% +51.16% +43.33%

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 9,642 8,946 11,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.65% 65.26% 63.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,284 5,634 8,389
10th Percentile £350 £325 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 112 255
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.88 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.52 £25.94 £18.42
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +26.84% +3.64%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £73.29
England median hourly rate £22.92 £30.40 £25.71
% change year-on-year -24.61% +18.24% -1.12%

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 February 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 February 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 14 £775 +96.83% 12
West London -25 1 £285 -35.01% 6
North London - 1 £400 -
South London - 1 £513 -
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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.86%) CMS
2 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (10.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.86%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.90%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.90%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.90%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.90%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.90%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.95%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.95%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.95%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.95%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.95%) SAP PP-PI
4 1 (0.95%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.95%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.90%) GCP
2 16 (15.24%) Azure
2 16 (15.24%) GitHub
3 15 (14.29%) AWS
4 12 (11.43%) Cloud Run
5 5 (4.76%) dbt
5 5 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.81%) Figma
6 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.86%) IaaS
7 3 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.90%) SaaS
8 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.90%) Veeva
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.95%) Collibra
9 1 (0.95%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) Firewall
1 2 (1.90%) Network Security
1 2 (1.90%) Wireless
2 1 (0.95%) Cisco ICM
2 1 (0.95%) DHCP
2 1 (0.95%) DNS
2 1 (0.95%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.95%) Modbus
2 1 (0.95%) RS-485
2 1 (0.95%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.95%) VPN
2 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 5 (4.76%) Power BI
2 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.90%) Tableau
4 1 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.95%) KNIME
4 1 (0.95%) Metadata
4 1 (0.95%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Power Query
4 1 (0.95%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.95%) QlikView
4 1 (0.95%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.95%) Spotfire
4 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (14.29%) Git
2 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (0.95%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.95%) Hudson
3 1 (0.95%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.95%) MLflow
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.14%) Finance
3 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.67%) Marketing
6 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Digital Health
7 2 (1.90%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Wearables
8 1 (0.95%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.95%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.95%) Publishing
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (10.48%) Data Engineer
1 11 (10.48%) Senior
2 9 (8.57%) Consultant
3 8 (7.62%) Analyst
3 8 (7.62%) Project Manager
4 7 (6.67%) Compliance Manager
4 7 (6.67%) Developer
4 7 (6.67%) Lead
4 7 (6.67%) Quality Manager
4 7 (6.67%) Risk Manager
4 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) Accountant
5 6 (5.71%) Architect
5 6 (5.71%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (5.71%) Systems Accountant
6 5 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 5 (4.76%) Python Developer
6 5 (4.76%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 12 (11.43%) pytest
3 10 (9.52%) LangGraph
4 4 (3.81%) React
5 3 (2.86%) MACH
5 3 (2.86%) Playwright
6 2 (1.90%) pydantic
6 2 (1.90%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.95%) Django
7 1 (0.95%) Flask
7 1 (0.95%) Kafka
7 1 (0.95%) Ray
7 1 (0.95%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (36.19%) Life Science
2 15 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 13 (12.38%) Genomics
4 9 (8.57%) FMCG
5 5 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.81%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.86%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (2.86%) LIMS
7 3 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.86%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.90%) NHS
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.86%) Android
3 2 (1.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.48%) AI
2 30 (28.57%) Machine Learning
3 29 (27.62%) Agile
4 21 (20.00%) Biotechnology
4 21 (20.00%) DevOps
4 21 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
6 17 (16.19%) Software Engineering
7 16 (15.24%) Analytics
7 16 (15.24%) Containerisation
8 15 (14.29%) Data Science
8 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (13.33%) Natural Language Processing
9 14 (13.33%) Unit Testing
10 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (12.38%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (12.38%) ERP
10 13 (12.38%) Proteomics
11 11 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (10.48%) Transcriptomics
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.48%) Python
2 14 (13.33%) SQL
3 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.86%) R
5 1 (0.95%) C
5 1 (0.95%) C++
5 1 (0.95%) Ruby
5 1 (0.95%) Scala
5 1 (0.95%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 23 (21.90%) Degree
2 6 (5.71%) ACCA
2 6 (5.71%) CIMA
3 5 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.81%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.81%) PMP
5 2 (1.90%) CISSP
5 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) CBAP
6 1 (0.95%) CCA
6 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.95%) MBA
6 1 (0.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) GxP
2 6 (5.71%) GMP
3 4 (3.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.81%) QA
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 2 (1.90%) PMO
6 1 (0.95%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.95%) GAMP
6 1 (0.95%) GRC
6 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.95%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.95%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.95%) ITGC
6 1 (0.95%) MiFID
6 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (19.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (0.95%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.95%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (18.10%) Google
1 19 (18.10%) SAP
2 9 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.90%) Databricks
5 2 (1.90%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.95%) Adobe
6 1 (0.95%) Apple
6 1 (0.95%) Avaya
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco
6 1 (0.95%) Digital Fuel
6 1 (0.95%) Genesys
6 1 (0.95%) IBM
6 1 (0.95%) IDERA
6 1 (0.95%) LabWare
6 1 (0.95%) MEDITECH
6 1 (0.95%) Siemens
6 1 (0.95%) VMware