Pharmaceutical Contracts in the North West

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 107 140
Rank change year-on-year +51 +33 -20
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 86 46 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.11% 1.43% 1.03%
As % of the General category 5.81% 2.77% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 30 28
10th Percentile £405 £263 £291
25th Percentile £463 £363 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £455 £423
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% +7.69% -15.50%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £561
90th Percentile £578 £594 £621
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.75 -
Median hourly rate £17.72 £11.50 £13.75
Median % change year-on-year +54.09% -16.36% -71.05%
75th Percentile £30.51 £13.38 -
90th Percentile £53.53 £14.05 -
England median hourly rate £30.16 £36.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -16.22% -26.53% +8.89%

All General Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,480 1,660 2,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.56% 51.67% 49.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 906 1,140 1,425
10th Percentile £300 £305 £213
25th Percentile £395 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 83 115
10th Percentile £12.50 £14.67 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.04 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.72 £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.85% +30.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £36.95 £38.03 £43.75
90th Percentile £51.91 £52.81 £53.52
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the North West

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Cheshire +27 73 £510 +13.33% 38
Merseyside +23 5 £115 -75.00% 7
Manchester +5 3 £575 +15.00% 38
Lancashire - 3 £475 - 5
Pharmaceutical
England

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.98%) SAS
2 5 (5.81%) Apache
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 25 (29.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.65%) SAP MDG
2 4 (4.65%) TrackWise
3 3 (3.49%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.16%) SAP BPC
4 1 (1.16%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.28%) Power Platform
2 13 (15.12%) Snowflake
3 7 (8.14%) Collibra
4 6 (6.98%) AWS
4 6 (6.98%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.81%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (5.81%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.81%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.81%) Serverless
6 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.16%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.16%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) FTP
2 2 (2.33%) MQTT
3 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) Power BI
2 12 (13.95%) Data Lake
3 7 (8.14%) Big Data
4 6 (6.98%) Ataccama
4 6 (6.98%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (6.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.81%) Data Mining
5 5 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.81%) Metadata
6 4 (4.65%) EDMS
7 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.16%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) JIRA
2 6 (6.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (5.81%) Git
4 1 (1.16%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.16%) PyCharm
General
1 27 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Manufacturing
3 12 (13.95%) Finance
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.81%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Banking
6 2 (2.33%) Publishing
7 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.16%) German Language
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
7 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (37.21%) Analyst
2 21 (24.42%) Data Analyst
3 18 (20.93%) Senior
4 16 (18.60%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (11.63%) Business Analyst
5 10 (11.63%) Consultant
5 10 (11.63%) SAP Analyst
6 9 (10.47%) Senior Data Analyst
7 8 (9.30%) Data Manager
7 8 (9.30%) Data Quality Analyst
7 8 (9.30%) QA Analyst
7 8 (9.30%) Quality Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) SAP Data Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) Senior QA Analyst
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Quality Analyst
9 6 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Functional Consultant
9 6 (6.98%) Project Manager
9 6 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) JSON
1 5 (5.81%) XML
2 1 (1.16%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.42%) Life Science
2 8 (9.30%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.81%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.65%) IoT
4 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.65%) Robotics
5 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (2.33%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
1 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (22.09%) Data Management
3 18 (20.93%) Data Governance
4 14 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (16.28%) Data Analysis
5 12 (13.95%) ETL
5 12 (13.95%) Visualisation
6 11 (12.79%) Agile
6 11 (12.79%) Data Modelling
7 10 (11.63%) Business Analysis
7 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.47%) Project Management
9 8 (9.30%) Data Architecture
9 8 (9.30%) Data Engineering
9 8 (9.30%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (8.14%) Data Science
10 7 (8.14%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (6.98%) Analytics
11 6 (6.98%) Business Transformation
11 6 (6.98%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.09%) SQL
2 14 (16.28%) Python
3 6 (6.98%) Java
4 5 (5.81%) C#
5 1 (1.16%) Groovy
5 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Degree
2 5 (5.81%) IIBA
3 4 (4.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.33%) PhD
4 2 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.44%) QA
2 14 (16.28%) Data Quality
3 12 (13.95%) GDPR
4 8 (9.30%) GxP
5 6 (6.98%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (2.33%) PMO
7 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.16%) GAMP
7 1 (1.16%) GMP
7 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.33%) SCCM
2 2 (2.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 40 (46.51%) SAP
2 20 (23.26%) Ariba
3 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.98%) Alteryx
4 6 (6.98%) Dataiku
4 6 (6.98%) Trillium
5 5 (5.81%) Informatica
5 5 (5.81%) Talend
6 2 (2.33%) Adobe
6 2 (2.33%) Apple
6 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.16%) Databricks
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.16%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle
7 1 (1.16%) Salesforce