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 in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 58 121
Rank change year-on-year -8 +63 +18
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 56 83 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.86% 3.06% 1.32%
As % of the General category 5.00% 5.71% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 61 29
10th Percentile - £405 £263
25th Percentile £500 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +13.33% +6.51%
75th Percentile £663 £538 £500
90th Percentile £700 £585 £600
England median daily rate £563 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 0
10th Percentile £14.78 - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £17.72 -
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% - -
75th Percentile £33.75 £30.51 -
90th Percentile £35.90 £53.53 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £30.16 £36.00
% change year-on-year +7.76% -16.22% -26.53%

All General Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,121 1,453 1,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 57.31% 53.66% 52.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 890 1,143
10th Percentile £267 £300 £305
25th Percentile £380 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 191 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.50 £16.15
25th Percentile £17.58 £14.50 £19.04
Median hourly rate £29.52 £17.72 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +66.56% -34.85% +36.00%
75th Percentile £53.94 £36.72 £38.03
90th Percentile £75.63 £51.91 £53.06
England median hourly rate £27.70 £30.50 £32.40
% change year-on-year -9.18% -5.86% +50.70%

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 7 May 2025.

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 7 May 2025.

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 7 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
Cheshire -11 43 £550 +7.84% 18
Manchester +24 9 £575 - 13
Merseyside 0 2 £513 +345.65% 9
Lancashire -1 1 £523 +10.00% 5
Cumbria - 1 - -
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 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (30.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) Azure
2 5 (8.93%) AWS
3 4 (7.14%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (7.14%) Azure AI
3 4 (7.14%) GCP
3 4 (7.14%) Google Gemini
3 4 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.14%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.79%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (1.79%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (7.14%) Metadata
1 4 (7.14%) Neo4j
1 4 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 19 (33.93%) Manufacturing
1 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.79%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (25.00%) Finance
4 10 (17.86%) Legal
5 5 (8.93%) Local Government
6 2 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.79%) French Language
7 1 (1.79%) Games
7 1 (1.79%) German Language
7 1 (1.79%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (12.50%) Analyst
1 7 (12.50%) Architect
1 7 (12.50%) Senior
2 6 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
2 6 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 5 (8.93%) Facilities Manager
3 5 (8.93%) Facilities Project Manager
3 5 (8.93%) Lead
4 4 (7.14%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 4 (7.14%) SAP Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Associate Director
5 3 (5.36%) Business IT Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Data Migration Expert
5 3 (5.36%) IT Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) IT Business Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 4 (7.14%) TensorFlow
2 3 (5.36%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Life Science
2 6 (10.71%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.93%) NHS
4 4 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.57%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.79%) LIMS
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (25.00%) Agile
3 12 (21.43%) Project Management
4 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (17.86%) Data Migration
5 10 (17.86%) Information Architecture
5 10 (17.86%) Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Business Analysis
6 8 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 8 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
6 8 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 7 (12.50%) Analytics
7 7 (12.50%) Data Design
8 6 (10.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.71%) Decision-Making
8 6 (10.71%) ETL
8 6 (10.71%) Machine Learning
8 6 (10.71%) Natural Language Processing
8 6 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Python
2 3 (5.36%) Scala
3 1 (1.79%) Java
3 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) HNC
3 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) GxP
2 2 (3.57%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.57%) PMO
3 1 (1.79%) IEC 61508
3 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (50.00%) SAP
2 9 (16.07%) Ariba
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) Anaplan
4 2 (3.57%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce