Pharmaceutical Contracts in the North East

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.21% - -
As % of the General category 3.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £575 £525 £498
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.53% -5.24%

All General Skills
North East

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 common skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 183 166 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 57.73% 50.46% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 82 158
10th Percentile £202 £225 £225
25th Percentile £350 £401 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £625
90th Percentile £590 £720 £722
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 38 0
10th Percentile - £11.35 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £11.64 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.49% - -
75th Percentile £18.72 £48.06 -
90th Percentile £22.64 £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £27.19 £30.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% -6.15% +51.16%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the North East

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North East

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North East

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the North East region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear - 7 - - 6
Pharmaceutical
England

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 5 (71.43%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Security Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (71.43%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security
2 5 (71.43%) Information Security Management
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) ISMS
2 5 (71.43%) Security Management
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Register
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) Fortinet
1 5 (71.43%) HP
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Veeam
1 5 (71.43%) VMware