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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 278 282
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 +104
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 115 79 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the General category 1.11% 0.92% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 63 55
10th Percentile £355 £430 £430
25th Percentile £475 £519 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £688 £880 £706
90th Percentile £831 £1,185 £800
England median daily rate £523 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% +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 £70.00 £32.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +115.38% +14.04% -5.00%

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 10,387 8,572 11,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.36% 66.77% 63.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,757 5,735 8,212
10th Percentile £350 £333 £333
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £699
90th Percentile £784 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 132 256
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.05 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.42 £25.50 £18.66
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% +16.88% -7.20%
75th Percentile £48.75 £55.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.31 £73.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £31.35 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.76% +20.56% -25.71%

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 March 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 March 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 0 12 £738 +42.17% 20
West London -18 2 £550 +22.22% 8
South London - 2 £506 - 2
North London - 1 £400 - 2
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 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.74%) Confluence
3 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (12.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.48%) SAP EWM
3 3 (2.61%) SAP QM
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.74%) SAP MM
4 2 (1.74%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.87%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.87%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.87%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.87%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.87%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.87%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.87%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.87%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.87%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.87%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.87%) SAP PP-PI
5 1 (0.87%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.87%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.91%) AWS
1 16 (13.91%) GCP
2 15 (13.04%) Azure
3 9 (7.83%) GitHub
4 7 (6.09%) Cloud Run
4 7 (6.09%) dbt
5 5 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.35%) SaaS
6 4 (3.48%) Figma
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.61%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.61%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.61%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.61%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.74%) IaaS
8 2 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.87%) Dagster
9 1 (0.87%) Fivetran
9 1 (0.87%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) Firewall
1 3 (2.61%) Network Security
2 2 (1.74%) Wireless
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (0.87%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.87%) Junos
3 1 (0.87%) Modbus
3 1 (0.87%) RS-485
3 1 (0.87%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.87%) VLAN
3 1 (0.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.35%) Power BI
2 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.74%) Tableau
5 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Power Query
5 1 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.87%) QlikView
5 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.87%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (10.43%) Git
2 4 (3.48%) JIRA
3 3 (2.61%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.61%) MLflow
4 1 (0.87%) Hudson
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 31 (26.96%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.74%) Finance
3 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.57%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.22%) Marketing
7 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Retail
9 3 (2.61%) Advertising
9 3 (2.61%) Wearables
10 2 (1.74%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.87%) Billing
11 1 (0.87%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (11.30%) Senior
2 12 (10.43%) Data Engineer
3 11 (9.57%) Consultant
4 8 (6.96%) Accountant
4 8 (6.96%) Project Manager
4 8 (6.96%) Systems Accountant
5 7 (6.09%) Analyst
5 7 (6.09%) Compliance Manager
5 7 (6.09%) Developer
5 7 (6.09%) Quality Manager
5 7 (6.09%) Risk Manager
6 6 (5.22%) Architect
6 6 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) IT Manager
6 6 (5.22%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (4.35%) Backend Developer
7 5 (4.35%) Lead
7 5 (4.35%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.35%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.70%) FastAPI
2 7 (6.09%) pytest
3 6 (5.22%) LangGraph
4 3 (2.61%) IDoc
4 3 (2.61%) Ray
4 3 (2.61%) React
5 2 (1.74%) Playwright
5 2 (1.74%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.74%) SAP Core Interface
6 1 (0.87%) ADO
6 1 (0.87%) BAPI
6 1 (0.87%) Django
6 1 (0.87%) EDI
6 1 (0.87%) Flask
6 1 (0.87%) Kafka
6 1 (0.87%) REST
6 1 (0.87%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.87%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.87%) SOAP
6 1 (0.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 43 (37.39%) Life Science
2 10 (8.70%) FMCG
3 9 (7.83%) Cloud Native
4 8 (6.96%) Genomics
4 8 (6.96%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.61%) LIMS
6 3 (2.61%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.74%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.74%) Omics
7 2 (1.74%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.87%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.87%) SCADA
8 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (26.96%) AI
2 25 (21.74%) Machine Learning
3 24 (20.87%) Biotechnology
4 22 (19.13%) Agile
5 21 (18.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (13.04%) Data Science
7 14 (12.17%) DevOps
7 14 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (11.30%) Analytics
8 13 (11.30%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.30%) ERP
9 12 (10.43%) Data Analysis
9 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (10.43%) Test Automation
10 11 (9.57%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (9.57%) Project Delivery
10 11 (9.57%) Validation
11 10 (8.70%) Software Engineering
12 9 (7.83%) Natural Language Processing
12 9 (7.83%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.48%) Python
2 14 (12.17%) SQL
3 2 (1.74%) ABAP
3 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.74%) R
3 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.87%) C
4 1 (0.87%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (13.91%) Degree
2 8 (6.96%) ACCA
2 8 (6.96%) CIMA
3 5 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 5 (4.35%) PMP
4 2 (1.74%) CISSP
4 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.87%) CCA
5 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) GxP
2 6 (5.22%) GMP
3 4 (3.48%) QA
4 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) GRC
5 2 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.87%) ITGC
6 1 (0.87%) MiFID
6 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (11.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.74%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (0.87%) Cisco UCCX
3 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.87%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) SAP
2 15 (13.04%) Google
3 6 (5.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.48%) Databricks
5 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.61%) Oracle
7 2 (1.74%) LabWare
7 2 (1.74%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.74%) VMware
7 2 (1.74%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.87%) Cisco
8 1 (0.87%) Citrix
8 1 (0.87%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.87%) Genesys
8 1 (0.87%) IBM
8 1 (0.87%) IFS
8 1 (0.87%) Juniper
8 1 (0.87%) MapR
8 1 (0.87%) MuleSoft