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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 182 270
Rank change year-on-year -10 +88 +45
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 153 222 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.18% 1.09% 0.78%
As % of the General category 1.89% 2.01% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 140 122
10th Percentile £304 £363 £253
25th Percentile £500 £405 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £575
90th Percentile £700 £652 £724
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £494
% change year-on-year +4.76% +6.33% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 4
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £12.96
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.75 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £28.61
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +39.84% -41.62%
75th Percentile £33.75 £60.00 £47.44
90th Percentile £42.35 £67.92 £57.23
UK median hourly rate £51.80 £33.83 £42.00
% change year-on-year +53.10% -19.45% -14.29%

All General Skills
UK excluding 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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,105 11,039 12,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.39% 54.32% 56.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,972 6,310 8,864
10th Percentile £210 £207 £230
25th Percentile £361 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -0.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 592 1,650 745
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 £13.31
25th Percentile £16.02 £15.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £24.50 £28.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -0.57% +48.21%
75th Percentile £54.25 £53.75 £60.70
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.04 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £27.45 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.50% -7.69% +44.44%

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 2025.

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 18 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 +8 74 £550 +7.06% 92
North of England -16 59 £550 +7.84% 103
North West -22 51 £550 +7.84% 58
South East +22 8 £250 -51.50% 138
Midlands +20 8 £513 +51.85% 55
North East - 7 - - 20
Wales - 7 £305 - 20
West Midlands +4 4 £525 +55.56% 25
East Midlands - 4 £500 - 30
South West +30 1 - - 22
Yorkshire +9 1 - - 32
Scotland +5 1 £438 +9.38% 24
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 2 (1.31%) SAS
2 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (15.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 51 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.27%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.96%) SAP BPC
3 3 (1.96%) SAP CO
3 3 (1.96%) SAP FI
3 3 (1.96%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.65%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.65%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 13 (8.50%) AWS
2 10 (6.54%) Azure
3 8 (5.23%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (2.61%) Azure AI
4 4 (2.61%) GCP
4 4 (2.61%) Google Gemini
4 4 (2.61%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.96%) GitHub
5 3 (1.96%) Power Automate
5 3 (1.96%) Veeva
6 2 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.31%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.31%) Serverless
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.65%) SaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.23%) Power BI
2 6 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.27%) Data Lake
3 5 (3.27%) Metadata
4 4 (2.61%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.31%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.31%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.31%) Text Mining
6 1 (0.65%) Big Data
6 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) JIRA
2 5 (3.27%) LoadRunner
2 5 (3.27%) NeoLoad
3 4 (2.61%) Git
4 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.96%) JMeter
5 1 (0.65%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.65%) ERwin
General
1 44 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.49%) Finance
3 26 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (15.03%) Manufacturing
5 11 (7.19%) Legal
6 8 (5.23%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.61%) Banking
8 4 (2.61%) Retail
9 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.96%) Local Government
10 2 (1.31%) Games
10 2 (1.31%) German Language
10 2 (1.31%) Italian Language
10 2 (1.31%) Law
10 2 (1.31%) Marketing
10 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.31%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.65%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (20.26%) Lead
2 18 (11.76%) Analyst
3 14 (9.15%) Architect
4 12 (7.84%) Senior
5 11 (7.19%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.54%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.88%) Developer
8 6 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) Consultant
9 5 (3.27%) Associate Director
9 5 (3.27%) AWS Developer
9 5 (3.27%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.27%) Designer
9 5 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) SAP Analyst
9 5 (3.27%) SAP Architect
9 5 (3.27%) Security Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Python Developer
10 4 (2.61%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.58%) Middleware
2 4 (2.61%) CSS
2 4 (2.61%) HTML
2 4 (2.61%) PyTorch
2 4 (2.61%) TensorFlow
3 2 (1.31%) LDAP
4 1 (0.65%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (0.65%) CSS3
4 1 (0.65%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.65%) Flask
4 1 (0.65%) HTML5
4 1 (0.65%) Kafka
4 1 (0.65%) OLE
4 1 (0.65%) React
4 1 (0.65%) RESTful
4 1 (0.65%) Spring
4 1 (0.65%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.65%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.65%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.61%) Life Science
2 10 (6.54%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.58%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.92%) FMCG
5 6 (3.92%) NHS
6 4 (2.61%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.96%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.96%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.96%) EPoS
7 3 (1.96%) Learning Management System
8 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.31%) CRISPR
8 2 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.31%) LIMS
8 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.31%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.65%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Windows
3 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (20.26%) Agile
3 29 (18.95%) Migration
4 26 (16.99%) Analytics
4 26 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (15.03%) Project Management
6 21 (13.73%) Data Management
7 19 (12.42%) Data Design
8 18 (11.76%) Data Migration
9 17 (11.11%) Data Governance
9 17 (11.11%) ERP
10 14 (9.15%) Business Analysis
10 14 (9.15%) Decision-Making
11 13 (8.50%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (8.50%) Data Modelling
12 12 (7.84%) Data Cleansing
12 12 (7.84%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (7.19%) Data Analysis
13 11 (7.19%) Record to Report
14 10 (6.54%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.80%) Python
2 7 (4.58%) SQL
3 3 (1.96%) JavaScript
3 3 (1.96%) R
3 3 (1.96%) Scala
4 2 (1.31%) Java
4 2 (1.31%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.65%) C#
5 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (15.03%) Degree
2 8 (5.23%) Master's Degree
3 4 (2.61%) CCA
4 3 (1.96%) HNC
5 2 (1.31%) PhD
6 1 (0.65%) AAT
6 1 (0.65%) ACCA
6 1 (0.65%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.65%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.23%) GxP
3 5 (3.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.27%) PMO
3 5 (3.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (2.61%) QA
5 3 (1.96%) GDPR
5 3 (1.96%) SLA
6 2 (1.31%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.65%) GAAP
7 1 (0.65%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.65%) IFRS
7 1 (0.65%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (3.92%) Docker
2 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.96%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 68 (44.44%) SAP
2 23 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.76%) Ariba
4 5 (3.27%) Anaplan
4 5 (3.27%) Cisco
4 5 (3.27%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.27%) HP
4 5 (3.27%) Hyperion
4 5 (3.27%) Veeam
4 5 (3.27%) VMware
5 3 (1.96%) Remedy
5 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.31%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe
7 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle
7 1 (0.65%) SnapLogic