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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 263 284
Rank change year-on-year -20 +21 +109
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 123 84 108
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.69% 0.62%
As % of the General category 1.14% 1.01% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 64 55
10th Percentile £360 £458 £440
25th Percentile £438 £522 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £747 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.67% +24.42% +17.07%
75th Percentile £600 £975 £731
90th Percentile £678 £1,200 £862
England median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.36% +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 £55.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +31.22% +83.19% -28.19%

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 10,775 8,289 11,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.55% 67.74% 63.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,974 5,548 7,863
10th Percentile £350 £346 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £706 £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 192 145 232
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.20 £15.55
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.78% -6.93%
75th Percentile £46.56 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.40 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £31.00 £27.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.73% -8.33% -6.25%

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 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 22 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 -9 9 £575 +35.29% 8
West London -21 7 £400 -11.11% 5
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 (2.44%) IIS
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.81%) CMS
2 1 (0.81%) SAS
2 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (1.63%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (1.63%) InDesign
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.63%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.44%) SAP EWM
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.63%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.63%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP CS
4 1 (0.81%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.81%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.81%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.81%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.81%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.81%) SAP PP-PI
4 1 (0.81%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 22 (17.89%) AWS
2 20 (16.26%) Azure
3 8 (6.50%) GCP
4 7 (5.69%) dbt
5 6 (4.88%) Figma
5 6 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.88%) SaaS
6 4 (3.25%) Cloud Run
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.44%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.44%) GitHub
7 3 (2.44%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.44%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) Firewall
2 3 (2.44%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.44%) VLAN
3 2 (1.63%) DNS
3 2 (1.63%) VPN
3 2 (1.63%) WAN
4 1 (0.81%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.81%) Junos
4 1 (0.81%) Modbus
4 1 (0.81%) Network Security
4 1 (0.81%) NGFW
4 1 (0.81%) RS-485
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.88%) Power BI
2 2 (1.63%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.63%) Tableau
3 1 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.81%) Pinecone
3 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.81%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (0.81%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
3 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.81%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (4.07%) Git
2 4 (3.25%) JIRA
3 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.44%) MLflow
4 1 (0.81%) Hudson
4 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.81%) LSMW
4 1 (0.81%) Selenium
General
1 34 (27.64%) Finance
2 27 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.57%) Manufacturing
4 10 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.69%) Retail
7 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (4.07%) Marketing
9 4 (3.25%) Advertising
10 3 (2.44%) Legal
10 3 (2.44%) Wearables
11 2 (1.63%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.63%) Law
12 1 (0.81%) Automotive
12 1 (0.81%) Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.81%) Italian Language
12 1 (0.81%) Portuguese Language
12 1 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (13.01%) Senior
2 14 (11.38%) Project Manager
3 13 (10.57%) Data Engineer
4 11 (8.94%) Consultant
5 8 (6.50%) Accountant
5 8 (6.50%) Analyst
5 8 (6.50%) Systems Accountant
6 7 (5.69%) Architect
6 7 (5.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 7 (5.69%) Compliance Manager
6 7 (5.69%) Lead
6 7 (5.69%) Quality Manager
6 7 (5.69%) Risk Manager
7 6 (4.88%) IT Manager
8 5 (4.07%) SAP Manager
8 5 (4.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (4.07%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (3.25%) Designer
9 4 (3.25%) Product Owner
9 4 (3.25%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.25%) FastAPI
1 4 (3.25%) REST
2 3 (2.44%) IDoc
2 3 (2.44%) Ray
2 3 (2.44%) React
3 2 (1.63%) Kafka
3 2 (1.63%) LangGraph
3 2 (1.63%) Playwright
3 2 (1.63%) PyTorch
3 2 (1.63%) SAP Core Interface
4 1 (0.81%) ADO
4 1 (0.81%) boto
4 1 (0.81%) LangChain
4 1 (0.81%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (0.81%) MACH
4 1 (0.81%) Pandas
4 1 (0.81%) pgvector
4 1 (0.81%) PySpark
4 1 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (33.33%) Life Science
2 9 (7.32%) FMCG
3 8 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.07%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.25%) Genomics
6 4 (3.25%) LIMS
7 3 (2.44%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.63%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.63%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.63%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.63%) Motion Graphics
8 2 (1.63%) Omics
8 2 (1.63%) Pharmacovigilance
9 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.81%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (21.95%) AI
2 19 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (14.63%) Agile
3 18 (14.63%) Biotechnology
4 15 (12.20%) Machine Learning
4 15 (12.20%) Migration
5 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (11.38%) Data Analysis
5 14 (11.38%) Validation
6 13 (10.57%) Analytics
7 12 (9.76%) ERP
7 12 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (8.94%) DevOps
8 11 (8.94%) Project Delivery
8 11 (8.94%) Risk Management
9 10 (8.13%) CI/CD
9 10 (8.13%) Data Science
10 9 (7.32%) Project Management
10 9 (7.32%) Roadmaps
11 8 (6.50%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.89%) Python
2 14 (11.38%) SQL
3 3 (2.44%) TypeScript
4 2 (1.63%) ABAP
4 2 (1.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.81%) Bicep
5 1 (0.81%) C
5 1 (0.81%) C++
5 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.57%) Degree
2 8 (6.50%) ACCA
2 8 (6.50%) CIMA
2 8 (6.50%) PMI Certification
2 8 (6.50%) PMP
3 3 (2.44%) CISM
3 3 (2.44%) CISSP
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (1.63%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.81%) CCSP
5 1 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.81%) CRISC
5 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.82%) GxP
2 7 (5.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.69%) GMP
2 7 (5.69%) GRC
3 6 (4.88%) QA
3 6 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.25%) GDPR
4 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.25%) PMO
5 3 (2.44%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.63%) NIST
7 1 (0.81%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.81%) ITGC
7 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.25%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.81%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 20 (16.26%) SAP
2 9 (7.32%) Google
3 5 (4.07%) Databricks
4 4 (3.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.25%) Oracle
5 3 (2.44%) Palo Alto
5 3 (2.44%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.44%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.63%) Adobe
6 2 (1.63%) LabWare
6 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.63%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.81%) Citrix
7 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.81%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.81%) Juniper
7 1 (0.81%) MapR
7 1 (0.81%) Siebel
7 1 (0.81%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) VMware