Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in Slough

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Berkshire > Slough

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in Slough. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Slough 3.45% 5.00% 2.30%
As % of the General category 6.06% 6.12% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £284 £515 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £530 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.87% - -
75th Percentile £311 £545 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £530 £501
% change year-on-year -10.38% +5.79% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £70.25
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -75.65% +48.75%
75th Percentile - - £86.88
90th Percentile - - £88.75
Berkshire median hourly rate - £18.87 £67.81
% change year-on-year - -72.17% +30.15%

All General Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 33 49 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 56.90% 81.67% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 20
10th Percentile £368 £178 £361
25th Percentile £375 £276 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £625 £545 £638
90th Percentile - £625 £678
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £70.25
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - £18.87 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year - -75.65% +222.92%
75th Percentile - £21.77 £86.88
90th Percentile - £23.50 £88.75
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.79 £34.80 £61.06
% change year-on-year +140.80% -43.02% +35.69%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in Slough

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in Slough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Slough citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Information Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Biomedicine
1 1 (50.00%) Content Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Text Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python