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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 259 299
Rank change year-on-year -12 +40 +62
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 151 91 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.72% 0.54%
As % of the General category 1.31% 1.06% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 69 47
10th Percentile £326 £450 £390
25th Percentile £425 £513 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £705 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.53% +22.61% +6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £880 £638
90th Percentile £672 £1,200 £822
England median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% +1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £73.13 - £23.75
25th Percentile £74.06 - £28.56
Median hourly rate £78.75 - £30.16
75th Percentile £84.06 - £40.00
90th Percentile £85.38 - £44.58
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +21.74% +90.65% +14.83%

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 11,534 8,607 11,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.32% 68.16% 62.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,423 5,749 7,880
10th Percentile £350 £331 £335
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £700
90th Percentile £788 £815 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £535
% change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 159 236
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.48 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +14.40% -5.58%
75th Percentile £46.25 £51.22 £47.81
90th Percentile £72.00 £65.00 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.97 £32.29
% change year-on-year +16.20% -13.38% +15.03%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -11 8 £575 +34.50% 4
West London -22 7 £400 - 1
South London - 1 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £225 -
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 (3.31%) IIS
2 3 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.66%) Apache
3 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) SAS
3 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.32%) InDesign
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.32%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (7.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.99%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.99%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.32%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP CS
4 1 (0.66%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.66%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.66%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.66%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP PP-PI
4 1 (0.66%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.66%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.66%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.88%) Azure
2 26 (17.22%) AWS
3 9 (5.96%) dbt
4 8 (5.30%) GCP
4 8 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.64%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.97%) Figma
6 6 (3.97%) SaaS
7 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.65%) Cloud Run
7 4 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.65%) GitHub
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (1.99%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.99%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (1.99%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.99%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.99%) Veeva
9 2 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) Firewall
1 5 (3.31%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.99%) DNS
2 3 (1.99%) VLAN
2 3 (1.99%) VPN
2 3 (1.99%) WAN
3 2 (1.32%) X.21
4 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.66%) Junos
4 1 (0.66%) Modbus
4 1 (0.66%) Network Security
4 1 (0.66%) NGFW
4 1 (0.66%) RS-485
4 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.30%) Power BI
2 3 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.99%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.32%) Tableau
4 1 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.66%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.66%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.66%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.66%) Pinecone
4 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.66%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (3.97%) Git
2 4 (2.65%) JIRA
3 3 (1.99%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.99%) MLflow
4 1 (0.66%) Hudson
4 1 (0.66%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) LSMW
4 1 (0.66%) Selenium
4 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (25.17%) Finance
1 38 (25.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.57%) Manufacturing
3 18 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.96%) Marketing
5 9 (5.96%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (3.97%) Retail
7 4 (2.65%) Advertising
7 4 (2.65%) Legal
8 3 (1.99%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.99%) Law
8 3 (1.99%) Wearables
9 2 (1.32%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.32%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.66%) Automotive
10 1 (0.66%) Banking
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.66%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (11.92%) Senior
2 17 (11.26%) Consultant
3 16 (10.60%) Analyst
4 15 (9.93%) Data Engineer
4 15 (9.93%) Project Manager
5 10 (6.62%) Business Analyst
5 10 (6.62%) Lead
6 8 (5.30%) Accountant
6 8 (5.30%) Architect
6 8 (5.30%) Systems Accountant
7 7 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (4.64%) Product Owner
8 6 (3.97%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (3.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (3.97%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Compliance Manager
9 5 (3.31%) Quality Manager
9 5 (3.31%) Risk Manager
9 5 (3.31%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (2.65%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.97%) REST
2 4 (2.65%) React
3 3 (1.99%) FastAPI
3 3 (1.99%) IDoc
3 3 (1.99%) Ray
4 2 (1.32%) Kafka
4 2 (1.32%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.32%) Playwright
4 2 (1.32%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.32%) SAP Core Interface
5 1 (0.66%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.66%) boto
5 1 (0.66%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.66%) LangChain
5 1 (0.66%) LlamaIndex
5 1 (0.66%) MACH
5 1 (0.66%) Pandas
5 1 (0.66%) pgvector
5 1 (0.66%) PySpark
5 1 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 48 (31.79%) Life Science
2 12 (7.95%) Product Ownership
3 11 (7.28%) FMCG
4 6 (3.97%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.31%) LIMS
6 4 (2.65%) Genomics
7 3 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.99%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.32%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.32%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.32%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.32%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (1.32%) Omics
8 2 (1.32%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.97%) Windows
2 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.53%) AI
2 26 (17.22%) Agile
3 20 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (13.25%) Validation
4 19 (12.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (11.92%) Migration
6 17 (11.26%) Biotechnology
7 16 (10.60%) Data Analysis
7 16 (10.60%) Machine Learning
7 16 (10.60%) Roadmaps
8 15 (9.93%) Analytics
8 15 (9.93%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (9.27%) DevOps
10 13 (8.61%) Decision-Making
11 12 (7.95%) CI/CD
12 11 (7.28%) Data Protection
12 11 (7.28%) ERP
12 11 (7.28%) Project Management
13 10 (6.62%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.57%) Python
2 17 (11.26%) SQL
3 3 (1.99%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.32%) ABAP
4 2 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.66%) Bicep
5 1 (0.66%) C
5 1 (0.66%) C#
5 1 (0.66%) C++
5 1 (0.66%) Cypher
5 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.60%) Degree
2 10 (6.62%) PMI Certification
2 10 (6.62%) PMP
3 8 (5.30%) ACCA
3 8 (5.30%) CIMA
4 4 (2.65%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.99%) CISM
5 3 (1.99%) CISSP
5 3 (1.99%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.32%) CSPO
6 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.66%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.89%) GxP
2 12 (7.95%) QA
3 10 (6.62%) GRC
4 8 (5.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (4.64%) Data Quality
5 7 (4.64%) GMP
6 6 (3.97%) GDPR
6 6 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (3.31%) HIPAA
7 5 (3.31%) PCI DSS
7 5 (3.31%) PMO
8 3 (1.99%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
9 2 (1.32%) NIST
10 1 (0.66%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.66%) ITGC
10 1 (0.66%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (3.97%) Docker
2 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.31%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.31%) Terraform
2 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.66%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) SAP
2 8 (5.30%) Google
3 6 (3.97%) Databricks
3 6 (3.97%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.31%) Oracle
5 4 (2.65%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.65%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.32%) Adobe
7 2 (1.32%) LabWare
7 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.32%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.66%) Citrix
8 1 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.66%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.66%) IFS
8 1 (0.66%) Juniper
8 1 (0.66%) MapR
8 1 (0.66%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.66%) Splunk