Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.16% - -
As % of the General category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £550 £605
% change year-on-year -40.91% -9.09% -13.57%

All General Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 446 281 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 69.91% 62.72% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 146 205
10th Percentile £279 £244 £329
25th Percentile £367 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £507 £561
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% -9.63% +12.20%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £688
90th Percentile £620 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £471 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.74% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 4
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.88 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.13 £16.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £18.40 £21.88 £27.50
90th Percentile £18.50 £22.00 £41.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -0.68% - +1.60%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in South Yorkshire

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Sheffield - 1 £325 -
Pharmaceutical
Yorkshire

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) FMCG
1 1 (100.00%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle