Pharmaceutical Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 268 336
Rank change year-on-year +84 +68 -49
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 238 194 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.80% 0.60%
As % of the General category 2.09% 1.42% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 132 127
10th Percentile £400 £263 £264
25th Percentile £438 £332 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £458
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -1.64% -8.50%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £568
90th Percentile £600 £650 £618
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 14
10th Percentile £17.72 - £28.13
25th Percentile £20.63 £10.75 £44.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £12.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.50% -75.51% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60.00 £14.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £68.24 £31.00 -
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £30.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +0.53% -38.78% +8.89%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,392 13,668 17,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.81% 56.46% 55.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,552 9,314 11,892
10th Percentile £205 £228 £208
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 813 1,057
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £31.27 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.66% +69.03% -7.50%
75th Percentile £51.44 £61.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £54.79
UK median hourly rate £28.42 £35.00 £21.84
% change year-on-year -18.80% +60.27% -2.94%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
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 Pharmaceutical within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 +36 114 £525 +16.67% 87
North of England +85 111 £525 +5.00% 158
North West +66 103 £525 +12.30% 88
South East -15 28 £530 +17.78% 125
South West +27 10 - - 49
Midlands +37 6 £338 -28.95% 63
West Midlands +32 6 £338 -28.95% 34
Yorkshire +22 6 £525 -4.55% 53
Scotland +32 4 £425 - 38
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (2.94%) SAS
2 6 (2.52%) Confluence
2 6 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.10%) Apache
3 5 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.10%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.42%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 62 (26.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.10%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.68%) TrackWise
4 3 (1.26%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.26%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.84%) Avolution ABACUS
5 2 (0.84%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.84%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.42%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.42%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.42%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 20 (8.40%) Power Platform
2 14 (5.88%) Snowflake
3 12 (5.04%) Collibra
4 11 (4.62%) Azure
5 9 (3.78%) AWS
6 7 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.52%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.10%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.10%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.10%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.10%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.10%) Serverless
9 4 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.68%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.68%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.10%) FTP
2 3 (1.26%) LAN
2 3 (1.26%) WAN
3 2 (0.84%) MQTT
4 1 (0.42%) VPN
4 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.40%) Power BI
2 12 (5.04%) Data Lake
3 11 (4.62%) Metadata
4 8 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.94%) Big Data
5 7 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.52%) Ataccama
6 6 (2.52%) Data Mining
6 6 (2.52%) Qlik Sense
6 6 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.10%) EDMS
8 3 (1.26%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.84%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.42%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.42%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.42%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (7.98%) JIRA
2 11 (4.62%) Git
3 6 (2.52%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.52%) PyCharm
3 6 (2.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.42%) LabVIEW
General
1 89 (37.39%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.59%) Manufacturing
3 41 (17.23%) Finance
4 21 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.36%) Aerospace
6 8 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.52%) Electronics
7 6 (2.52%) Marketing
8 5 (2.10%) Banking
9 4 (1.68%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Legal
10 3 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.26%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Publishing
12 1 (0.42%) Advertising
12 1 (0.42%) German Language
Job Titles
1 64 (26.89%) Analyst
2 32 (13.45%) Consultant
3 30 (12.61%) Data Analyst
4 27 (11.34%) Business Analyst
5 26 (10.92%) Project Manager
5 26 (10.92%) Senior
6 24 (10.08%) Functional Consultant
7 23 (9.66%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
8 22 (9.24%) Lead
9 20 (8.40%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (5.88%) Data Manager
11 11 (4.62%) Data Governance Analyst
11 11 (4.62%) Data Governance Manager
11 11 (4.62%) Governance Manager
11 11 (4.62%) SAP Analyst
12 10 (4.20%) Senior Data Analyst
13 9 (3.78%) Engineering Manager
13 9 (3.78%) QA Specialist
13 9 (3.78%) SAP Manager
14 8 (3.36%) SAP Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.52%) React
2 5 (2.10%) JSON
2 5 (2.10%) XML
3 2 (0.84%) PySpark
4 1 (0.42%) CSS
4 1 (0.42%) HTML
4 1 (0.42%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Basis
4 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.11%) Life Science
2 16 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.62%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.78%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.52%) Biopharmaceutical
5 6 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.10%) PMI
6 5 (2.10%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.68%) IoT
7 4 (1.68%) LIMS
7 4 (1.68%) Robotics
8 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.26%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.84%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.84%) Industrial Internet of Things
9 2 (0.84%) Industry 4.0
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.36%) Windows
2 4 (1.68%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (33.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 41 (17.23%) Data Governance
3 40 (16.81%) Project Management
4 26 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (10.50%) Business Transformation
5 25 (10.50%) Data Management
6 24 (10.08%) Decision-Making
7 22 (9.24%) Agile
8 20 (8.40%) Project Delivery
9 19 (7.98%) Business Analysis
9 19 (7.98%) Lean Six Sigma
9 19 (7.98%) Six Sigma
10 18 (7.56%) Analytics
11 17 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (6.72%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (6.72%) Change Management
12 16 (6.72%) Data Modelling
12 16 (6.72%) Data Protection
12 16 (6.72%) Visualisation
13 15 (6.30%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.18%) Python
2 21 (8.82%) SQL
3 11 (4.62%) Java
4 7 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.52%) Groovy
6 5 (2.10%) C#
7 2 (0.84%) R
Qualifications
1 50 (21.01%) Degree
2 12 (5.04%) IIBA
3 8 (3.36%) Master's Degree
4 7 (2.94%) PMP
5 6 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 6 (2.52%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.68%) CCNA
6 4 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.68%) MCSA
6 4 (1.68%) MCSE
6 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.26%) PhD
8 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.84%) MCP
9 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.42%) CISA
9 1 (0.42%) CISM
9 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.50%) GDPR
2 24 (10.08%) GxP
2 24 (10.08%) QA
3 23 (9.66%) Data Quality
4 18 (7.56%) Good Clinical Practice
5 11 (4.62%) GMP
6 7 (2.94%) PMO
7 6 (2.52%) SLA
8 3 (1.26%) GAMP
9 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.42%) CDISC
10 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.42%) HAZOP
10 1 (0.42%) NIST
10 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (4.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.26%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.84%) SCCM
2 2 (0.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 83 (34.87%) SAP
2 49 (20.59%) Ariba
3 18 (7.56%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.94%) Adobe
5 7 (2.94%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.52%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.52%) Talend
6 6 (2.52%) Trillium
7 5 (2.10%) Google
7 5 (2.10%) Informatica
8 3 (1.26%) HP
9 2 (0.84%) Apple
9 2 (0.84%) Concur
9 2 (0.84%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.84%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (0.84%) Snow
9 2 (0.84%) Workday
10 1 (0.42%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.42%) Databricks