Pharmaceutical Contracts in the North of England

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 164 189
Rank change year-on-year +70 +25 -22
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 96 55 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.02% 0.95% 0.67%
As % of the General category 3.69% 1.71% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 40 33
10th Percentile £405 £296 £300
25th Percentile £463 £409 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £484 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +9.94% -12.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £585 £591 £650
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.72 £13.50 -
Median hourly rate £32.61 £14.00 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year +132.93% +1.82% -15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £14.50 -
90th Percentile £58.82 - -
England median hourly rate £30.16 £42.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% -14.29% +8.89%

All General Skills
North of England

Pharmaceutical is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,605 3,208 3,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.78% 55.21% 50.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 2,207 2,613
10th Percentile £256 £300 £205
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +7.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £560
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 95 184
10th Percentile £12.11 £14.37 £11.18
25th Percentile £13.30 £17.72 £14.87
Median hourly rate £16.06 £25.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -35.76% +33.69% -1.58%
75th Percentile £27.75 £38.75 £31.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.20 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +58.14% -4.44%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the North of England

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North of England

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the North of England

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North of England

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the North of England

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
North West +65 87 £510 +13.33% 87
Yorkshire +24 7 £550 - 58
Pharmaceutical
England

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.25%) SAS
2 5 (5.21%) Apache
2 5 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.21%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 31 (32.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (6.25%) SAP MDG
3 4 (4.17%) TrackWise
4 3 (3.13%) SAP EWM
4 3 (3.13%) SAP SD
5 2 (2.08%) SAP MDM
6 1 (1.04%) SAP BPC
6 1 (1.04%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) Power Platform
2 13 (13.54%) Snowflake
3 7 (7.29%) AWS
3 7 (7.29%) Collibra
4 6 (6.25%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.21%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.21%) Serverless
6 4 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.04%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) FTP
2 2 (2.08%) MQTT
3 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.58%) Power BI
2 12 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 7 (7.29%) Big Data
4 6 (6.25%) Ataccama
4 6 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.21%) Data Mining
5 5 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.21%) Metadata
6 4 (4.17%) EDMS
7 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.04%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.04%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (7.29%) JIRA
2 6 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (5.21%) Git
4 1 (1.04%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.04%) PyCharm
General
1 29 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.88%) Manufacturing
3 13 (13.54%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Publishing
7 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.04%) German Language
7 1 (1.04%) Marketing
7 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (34.38%) Analyst
2 22 (22.92%) Data Analyst
3 19 (19.79%) Senior
4 17 (17.71%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (13.54%) Consultant
6 11 (11.46%) SAP Analyst
7 10 (10.42%) Business Analyst
7 10 (10.42%) Senior Data Analyst
8 8 (8.33%) Data Manager
8 8 (8.33%) Data Quality Analyst
8 8 (8.33%) Lead
8 8 (8.33%) QA Analyst
8 8 (8.33%) Quality Analyst
8 8 (8.33%) SAP Data Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) Project Manager
9 7 (7.29%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) Senior QA Analyst
9 7 (7.29%) Senior Quality Analyst
10 6 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
10 6 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) JSON
1 5 (5.21%) XML
2 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Life Science
2 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.21%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.17%) IoT
4 4 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.17%) Robotics
5 2 (2.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.08%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.08%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.08%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.08%) Windows
1 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (30.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (20.83%) Data Governance
3 19 (19.79%) Data Management
4 15 (15.63%) Data Analysis
5 14 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (13.54%) ETL
7 12 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 12 (12.50%) Visualisation
8 11 (11.46%) Agile
9 10 (10.42%) Business Analysis
9 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
10 9 (9.38%) Data Engineering
10 9 (9.38%) Project Management
11 8 (8.33%) Data Architecture
11 8 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (7.29%) Business Transformation
12 7 (7.29%) Data Science
12 7 (7.29%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (6.25%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.79%) SQL
2 14 (14.58%) Python
3 6 (6.25%) Java
4 5 (5.21%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) Groovy
5 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Degree
2 5 (5.21%) IIBA
3 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.08%) PhD
4 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) Data Quality
1 15 (15.63%) QA
2 13 (13.54%) GDPR
3 8 (8.33%) GxP
4 6 (6.25%) Good Clinical Practice
5 2 (2.08%) PMO
6 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.04%) GAMP
6 1 (1.04%) GMP
6 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.08%) SCCM
2 2 (2.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 46 (47.92%) SAP
2 20 (20.83%) Ariba
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.25%) Alteryx
4 6 (6.25%) Dataiku
4 6 (6.25%) Trillium
5 5 (5.21%) Informatica
5 5 (5.21%) Talend
6 3 (3.13%) HP
7 2 (2.08%) Adobe
7 2 (2.08%) Apple
7 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.04%) Databricks
8 1 (1.04%) Google
8 1 (1.04%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce