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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 268 309
Rank change year-on-year -12 +41 +72
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 157 93 86
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.69% 0.51%
As % of the General category 1.31% 1.01% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 69 45
10th Percentile £314 £425 £404
25th Percentile £408 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £820 £638
90th Percentile £682 £1,200 £761
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - £30.16
Median hourly rate £82.50 - £37.50
75th Percentile £86.25 - £43.75
90th Percentile - - £45.40
England median hourly rate £55.00 £95.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +153.33% +66.44%

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 12,013 9,240 10,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.62% 68.13% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,647 6,155 7,472
10th Percentile £350 £330 £331
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 173 183
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.57
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £21.11
Median hourly rate £31.50 £32.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -5.19% -3.57%
75th Percentile £44.03 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.04 £35.86
% change year-on-year +30.53% -27.37% +19.42%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -12 10 £525 +22.09% 12
West London -6 7 £400 - 5
South London - 1 £500 - 1
East London - 1 £225 - 3
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 (3.18%) IIS
2 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.64%) SAS
4 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.91%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.27%) InDesign
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.27%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (12.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.91%) SAP EWM
2 3 (1.91%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.27%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.27%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.64%) Bankmaster
4 1 (0.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 1 (0.64%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP CS
4 1 (0.64%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.64%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.64%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.64%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.64%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP PP-PI
4 1 (0.64%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.64%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 31 (19.75%) Azure
2 27 (17.20%) AWS
3 10 (6.37%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.73%) dbt
4 9 (5.73%) GCP
5 8 (5.10%) Snowflake
6 7 (4.46%) Figma
7 6 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.82%) GitHub
7 6 (3.82%) SaaS
8 4 (2.55%) Cloud Run
8 4 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.91%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.91%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (1.91%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.91%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.18%) Firewall
1 5 (3.18%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.91%) DNS
2 3 (1.91%) VLAN
2 3 (1.91%) VPN
2 3 (1.91%) WAN
3 2 (1.27%) X.21
4 1 (0.64%) Junos
4 1 (0.64%) Network Security
4 1 (0.64%) NGFW
4 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.37%) Power BI
2 4 (2.55%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.91%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.91%) Tableau
4 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.27%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.27%) Metadata
4 2 (1.27%) Neo4j
4 2 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.64%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.64%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.64%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.64%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.64%) Stardog
5 1 (0.64%) Triplestore
5 1 (0.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Git
2 4 (2.55%) JIRA
3 3 (1.91%) Cypress.io
3 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.91%) MLflow
4 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.64%) Hudson
5 1 (0.64%) LSMW
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 46 (29.30%) Social Skills
2 37 (23.57%) Finance
3 26 (16.56%) Manufacturing
4 20 (12.74%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.37%) Marketing
5 10 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (6.37%) Retail
6 9 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.18%) Legal
8 4 (2.55%) Advertising
8 4 (2.55%) Health Technology
9 3 (1.91%) Banking
9 3 (1.91%) Law
9 3 (1.91%) Wearables
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Italian Language
10 2 (1.27%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
11 1 (0.64%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (12.10%) Analyst
2 18 (11.46%) Consultant
2 18 (11.46%) Senior
3 17 (10.83%) Project Manager
4 14 (8.92%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.01%) Business Analyst
5 11 (7.01%) Lead
6 10 (6.37%) Architect
7 9 (5.73%) SAP Consultant
8 7 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (4.46%) Product Owner
9 6 (3.82%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 6 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Change Manager
10 5 (3.18%) Designer
10 5 (3.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.73%) REST
2 6 (3.82%) React
3 3 (1.91%) FastAPI
3 3 (1.91%) IDoc
3 3 (1.91%) Ray
3 3 (1.91%) SAP Fiori
3 3 (1.91%) SOAP
4 2 (1.27%) .NET
4 2 (1.27%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.27%) Kafka
4 2 (1.27%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.27%) Playwright
4 2 (1.27%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.27%) SAP Core Interface
4 2 (1.27%) SAPUI5
5 1 (0.64%) boto
5 1 (0.64%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.64%) Node.js
5 1 (0.64%) Pandas
5 1 (0.64%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (34.39%) Life Science
2 13 (8.28%) FMCG
2 13 (8.28%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.82%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.18%) LIMS
6 4 (2.55%) Genomics
7 3 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.27%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.27%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.27%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.27%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (1.27%) Omics
8 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.27%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.27%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (21.66%) AI
2 31 (19.75%) Agile
3 27 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (14.65%) Validation
5 21 (13.38%) Migration
6 19 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 18 (11.46%) Roadmaps
8 17 (10.83%) Analytics
9 16 (10.19%) DevOps
9 16 (10.19%) Machine Learning
10 15 (9.55%) CI/CD
11 14 (8.92%) Biotechnology
11 14 (8.92%) Decision-Making
12 13 (8.28%) Data Modelling
12 13 (8.28%) Project Delivery
13 12 (7.64%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (7.64%) Change Management
13 12 (7.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.65%) Python
2 19 (12.10%) SQL
3 4 (2.55%) ABAP
4 3 (1.91%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.27%) C#
5 2 (1.27%) Cypher
6 1 (0.64%) Bicep
6 1 (0.64%) C
6 1 (0.64%) C++
6 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.64%) Gremlin
6 1 (0.64%) Java
6 1 (0.64%) SPARQL
6 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (10.19%) Degree
2 11 (7.01%) PMI Certification
2 11 (7.01%) PMP
3 4 (2.55%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.91%) ACCA
4 3 (1.91%) CIMA
4 3 (1.91%) CISM
4 3 (1.91%) CISSP
4 3 (1.91%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.91%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.27%) CSPO
5 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.64%) CCSP
6 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.65%) GxP
2 12 (7.64%) QA
3 9 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.73%) GRC
4 7 (4.46%) GDPR
4 7 (4.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (3.82%) GMP
5 6 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.18%) HIPAA
6 5 (3.18%) PCI DSS
6 5 (3.18%) PMO
7 3 (1.91%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.27%) NIST
9 1 (0.64%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.64%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.64%) SLA
9 1 (0.64%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (3.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (3.18%) Kubernetes
1 5 (3.18%) Terraform
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (0.64%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (17.20%) SAP
2 8 (5.10%) Google
3 7 (4.46%) Databricks
3 7 (4.46%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.18%) Oracle
5 4 (2.55%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.55%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.27%) Adobe
6 2 (1.27%) LabWare
6 2 (1.27%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.64%) Ariba
7 1 (0.64%) Citrix
7 1 (0.64%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.64%) Informatica
7 1 (0.64%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.64%) Juniper
7 1 (0.64%) Siebel
7 1 (0.64%) VMware