Biopharmaceutical Contracts

Biopharmaceutical
UK

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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 686 808
Rank change year-on-year +131 +122 -115
Contract jobs citing Biopharmaceutical 14 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.016% 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.048% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 13
10th Percentile £299 £312 £303
25th Percentile £363 £320 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £413 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -28.26% +11.65%
75th Percentile £600 £541 £711
90th Percentile £615 £636 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £394 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -28.41% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £30.16 - -
75th Percentile £42.31 - -
90th Percentile £64.17 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Biopharmaceutical is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,908 18,829 29,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.33% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,321 12,959 20,354
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 612 715
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.50% -18.52% +5.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.98 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.38 £21.26 £21.13
% change year-on-year +47.58% +0.64% -8.57%

Biopharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biopharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

Biopharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biopharmaceutical.

Daily rate trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

Biopharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biopharmaceutical over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

Biopharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biopharmaceutical.

Hourly rate trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

Biopharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Biopharmaceutical over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biopharmaceutical within the UK over the 6 months to 24 May 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
England +108 14 £375 -9.09% 52
London +96 8 £600 -14.29% 21
Work from Home +123 5 £600 +26.32% 14
UK excluding London +48 5 £375 -4.76% 33
South East - 4 £375 - 18
North of England +34 1 - - 3

Biopharmaceutical
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Tableau
2 1 (7.14%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 12 (85.71%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) French Language
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
2 2 (14.29%) React Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) UX Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Functional Architect
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Programmer
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Functional Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SAP MM Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SAP PP Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) EDI
3 1 (7.14%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Life Science
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Agile
1 5 (35.71%) Project Management
1 5 (35.71%) Validation
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Analytics
3 3 (21.43%) Biology
3 3 (21.43%) Biotechnology
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
3 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (21.43%) Data Validation
3 3 (21.43%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (21.43%) Use Case
3 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Business Transformation
4 2 (14.29%) Data Interpretation
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GxP
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) Sitecore
3 1 (7.14%) Ariba