GxP Contracts in the UK excluding London

GxP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GxP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GxP over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 365 418
Rank change year-on-year +38 +53 +69
Contract jobs citing GxP 12 34 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.58% 1.09% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 22
10th Percentile £468 - £252
25th Percentile £496 £405 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £410 £375
Median % change year-on-year +30.79% +9.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £563 £506 £475
90th Percentile £585 £553 £514
UK median daily rate £534 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +30.18% -8.89% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £42.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -32.00% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

GxP falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,066 3,127 3,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.15% 15.07% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,299 1,824 2,397
10th Percentile £212 £254 £213
25th Percentile £363 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £664 £681 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 309 180
10th Percentile £17.72 £10.95 £12.66
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.63 £18.21
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £60.50
90th Percentile £80.32 £67.40 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £20.80 £36.25
% change year-on-year +67.05% -42.61% +29.46%

GxP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GxP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GxP in the UK excluding London

GxP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GxP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GxP in the UK excluding London

GxP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GxP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GxP in the UK excluding London

GxP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GxP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GxP in the UK excluding London

GxP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GxP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
East of England +19 11 £550 +34.15% 9
North of England +10 1 £523 +27.44% 1
North West +1 1 £523 +27.44% 1
GxP
UK

GxP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
1 3 (25.00%) JMeter
1 3 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (25.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 1 (8.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Operational Technology
2 4 (33.33%) Life Science
3 3 (25.00%) FMCG
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (8.33%) LIMS
5 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Apple iOS
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 10 (83.33%) Validation
3 7 (58.33%) Coaching
3 7 (58.33%) Computer Security
3 7 (58.33%) Incident Management
3 7 (58.33%) Software Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Matrix Management
5 3 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (25.00%) Test Management
5 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) ERP
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 1 (8.33%) Data Management
7 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba