21 CFR Part 11 Contracts

21 CFR Part 11
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring 21 CFR Part 11 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited 21 CFR Part 11 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 - 712
Rank change year-on-year - - +119
Contract jobs citing 21 CFR Part 11 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% - 0.002%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.11% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

21 CFR Part 11 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

21 CFR Part 11
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing 21 CFR Part 11 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for 21 CFR Part 11 in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 21 CFR Part 11.

Daily rate trend for 21 CFR Part 11 in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing 21 CFR Part 11.

Hourly rate trend for 21 CFR Part 11 in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 21 CFR Part 11 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Work from Home - 3 - - 15
London - 2 £700 - 4
England - 2 £700 - 9

21 CFR Part 11
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (20.00%) SAP QM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (20.00%) SAP SD
1 1 (20.00%) SAP SRM
1 1 (20.00%) Teamcenter
1 1 (20.00%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Compliance Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Quality Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Life Science
2 2 (40.00%) PMI
3 1 (20.00%) IoT
3 1 (20.00%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) FMECA
4 1 (20.00%) PLM
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (60.00%) PMP
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (40.00%) GxP
2 2 (40.00%) QA
3 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 13485
3 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 3 (60.00%) Ariba
3 2 (40.00%) Aruba
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) F5
3 2 (40.00%) Imperva
4 1 (20.00%) Siemens