Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in North Wales

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Wales > North Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in North Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Wales 4.08% - -
As % of the General category 4.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £173 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - -
75th Percentile £178 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £175 £305 -
% change year-on-year -42.71% - -

All General Skills
North Wales

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 North Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 41 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales 83.67% 27.78% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 0
10th Percentile £190 £178 -
25th Percentile - £208 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £263 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - -
75th Percentile £254 £272 -
90th Percentile £337 £274 -
Wales median daily rate £468 £400 £423
% change year-on-year +16.88% -5.33% -11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.93 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.85 - £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +55.38%
75th Percentile £36.70 - £51.75
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £21.63 £16.00 £25.27
% change year-on-year +35.16% -36.68% +107.13%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in North Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pharmaceutical relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Wales.

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in North Wales

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in North Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Wales citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Wales citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend in North Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Wales citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Wales citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in North Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Wrexham - 2 £175 - 1
Pharmaceutical
Wales

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Wales 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FMCG
1 1 (50.00%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Supplier Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware