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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 282 321
Rank change year-on-year -22 +39 +41
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 148 92 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.68% 0.47%
As % of the General category 1.19% 0.99% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 36
10th Percentile £286 £401 £381
25th Percentile £400 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +1.38%
75th Percentile £600 £748 £627
90th Percentile £684 £980 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.84%
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 £40.61 £95.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -57.25% +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 12,455 9,324 10,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.30% 69.05% 62.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,925 6,144 6,763
10th Percentile £350 £325 £332
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 186 125
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.75 £17.70
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.15% -6.59% +9.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.36 £65.00 £65.61
England median hourly rate £31.31 £25.15 £38.68
% change year-on-year +24.48% -34.97% +40.64%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 13 £525 +22.81% 28
West London -8 10 £400 - 9
East London - 1 £225 - 6
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%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.35%) InDesign
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.35%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.68%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (14.86%) 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 30 (20.27%) Azure
2 23 (15.54%) AWS
3 14 (9.46%) GCP
4 11 (7.43%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.76%) Snowflake
6 9 (6.08%) GitHub
7 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.73%) dbt
8 5 (3.38%) Cloud Run
8 5 (3.38%) Figma
8 5 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.03%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (2.03%) Serverless
10 3 (2.03%) Veeva
11 2 (1.35%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.35%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (1.35%) Collibra
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 11 (7.43%) Power BI
2 4 (2.70%) Metadata
2 4 (2.70%) SAP HANA
3 3 (2.03%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.03%) Neo4j
3 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.03%) SAP BW
3 3 (2.03%) Tableau
4 2 (1.35%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.35%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (1.35%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.68%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 6 (4.05%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.03%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.03%) 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 53 (35.81%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.97%) Finance
3 27 (18.24%) Manufacturing
4 22 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.43%) Marketing
6 10 (6.76%) Retail
7 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.73%) Legal
8 6 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (3.38%) Banking
10 4 (2.70%) Health Technology
11 3 (2.03%) Law
12 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.35%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.68%) Aviation
13 1 (0.68%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.68%) German Language
13 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (16.89%) Analyst
2 17 (11.49%) Project Manager
2 17 (11.49%) Senior
3 15 (10.14%) Consultant
4 13 (8.78%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
4 13 (8.78%) Lead
5 10 (6.76%) Architect
6 8 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (4.73%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.73%) SAP Manager
8 5 (3.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (2.70%) Business Process Analyst
9 4 (2.70%) Change Manager
9 4 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (2.70%) Process Analyst
9 4 (2.70%) Product Owner
9 4 (2.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.76%) REST
2 8 (5.41%) Terraform
3 6 (4.05%) React
4 5 (3.38%) FastAPI
5 4 (2.70%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.03%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (2.03%) SAPUI5
6 3 (2.03%) SOAP
7 2 (1.35%) .NET
7 2 (1.35%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.35%) Kafka
7 2 (1.35%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.35%) Playwright
7 2 (1.35%) SAP Core Interface
8 1 (0.68%) Google JAX
8 1 (0.68%) JAX
8 1 (0.68%) LangChain
8 1 (0.68%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (0.68%) MACH
8 1 (0.68%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 56 (37.84%) Life Science
2 14 (9.46%) FMCG
3 12 (8.11%) Cloud Native
4 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.73%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.38%) Biopharmaceutical
6 5 (3.38%) Genomics
7 4 (2.70%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.03%) LIMS
8 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.03%) NHS
8 3 (2.03%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.35%) Graphic Design
9 2 (1.35%) Learning Management System
9 2 (1.35%) Motion Graphics
9 2 (1.35%) Pharmacovigilance
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
3 32 (21.62%) AI
4 23 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (15.54%) Validation
5 22 (14.86%) Migration
6 21 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (13.51%) Analytics
8 18 (12.16%) CI/CD
8 18 (12.16%) Decision-Making
8 18 (12.16%) DevOps
8 18 (12.16%) Roadmaps
8 18 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (11.49%) Data Governance
10 15 (10.14%) Change Management
10 15 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (9.46%) Machine Learning
11 14 (9.46%) Workflow
12 13 (8.78%) Biotechnology
12 13 (8.78%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.19%) Python
2 18 (12.16%) SQL
3 4 (2.70%) 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%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.68%) CCSP
6 1 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.86%) GxP
2 17 (11.49%) Data Quality
3 11 (7.43%) QA
4 9 (6.08%) GDPR
4 9 (6.08%) GRC
5 6 (4.05%) HIPAA
5 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (4.05%) PMO
5 6 (4.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (3.38%) GMP
6 5 (3.38%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.03%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (1.35%) NIST
9 1 (0.68%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.68%) NCSC
9 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.68%) SLA
9 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 29 (19.59%) SAP
2 11 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.73%) Oracle
4 6 (4.05%) 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%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.68%) OpenText
9 1 (0.68%) Splunk