Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in South London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
London > South London

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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.68% - 0.39%
As % of the General category 1.18% - 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £502 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £514 - -
90th Percentile £517 - -
London median daily rate £533 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -26.55% +20.83% +14.29%

All General Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 170 146 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 57.43% 73.00% 56.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 93 90
10th Percentile £300 £330 £185
25th Percentile £455 £463 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £585
90th Percentile £668 £917 £638
London median daily rate £537 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.57% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 17
10th Percentile £62.13 - £16.37
25th Percentile £62.69 £15.84 £17.25
Median hourly rate £64.75 £24.92 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +159.83% +6.04% -35.55%
75th Percentile £66.19 £78.40 £83.25
90th Percentile £66.38 £79.84 £83.75
London median hourly rate £29.02 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.09% +16.67% -6.25%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in South London

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the South London region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Croydon - 2 £506 - 2
Pharmaceutical
London

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Junos
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Research
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft