GxP Contract Job Trends

GxP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GxP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 514 540
Rank change year-on-year -73 +26 +98
Contract jobs citing GxP 87 50 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.086%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.93% 0.89% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 14
10th Percentile £321 £478 £458
25th Percentile £409 £522 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £561 £700 £583
90th Percentile £623 £740 £679
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -32.00% +19.05% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £33.70 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £52.50
75th Percentile £43.75 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,344 5,598 5,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.39% 16.99% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,930 3,597 3,154
10th Percentile £325 £289 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.39% -2.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +3.58% -1.71% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 583 259 282
10th Percentile £13.86 £13.60 £11.81
25th Percentile £17.29 £17.14 £14.46
Median hourly rate £35.82 £30.00 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% +18.58% -26.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £60.63 £56.88
90th Percentile £79.80 £83.45 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.07 £27.02 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.52% +11.72% -27.57%

GxP
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GxP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

GxP job vacancy trend in the UK

GxP
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GxP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GxP

GxP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GxP over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GxP in the UK

GxP
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GxP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GxP

GxP
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. 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 -88 58 £500 -18.37% 36
UK excluding London -77 32 £425 -32.00% 18
Work from Home -40 28 £525 -6.67% 16
London -53 28 £525 -12.50% 18
South East -55 13 £350 - 8
East of England -20 10 £475 -22.45% 2
North of England -70 6 £400 -40.74% 2
North West -50 5 £400 -40.74% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £400 -
South West - 1 £750 - 1
Wales - 1 £300 -
Scotland - 1 £425 -

GxP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (4.60%) FactoryTalk
3 3 (3.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (11.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.45%) SAP SD
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.30%) SAP PP
4 1 (1.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.15%) SAP GTS
4 1 (1.15%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.15%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.15%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.20%) AWS
1 8 (9.20%) Azure
2 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
3 2 (2.30%) GCP
4 1 (1.15%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (1.15%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (1.15%) Azure AI
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.15%) dbt
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.15%) OCI
4 1 (1.15%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) Firewall
2 6 (6.90%) VLAN
3 5 (5.75%) HTTP
4 4 (4.60%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.30%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.30%) Network Security
5 2 (2.30%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.75%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) Metadata
4 1 (1.15%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.15%) Power BI
4 1 (1.15%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.15%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) JIRA
2 5 (5.75%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.15%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) LSMW
3 1 (1.15%) Selenium
General
1 57 (65.52%) Pharmaceutical
2 41 (47.13%) Manufacturing
3 27 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Finance
6 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.45%) Billing
8 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Health Technology
8 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) German Language
9 1 (1.15%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Retail
9 1 (1.15%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 11 (12.64%) Architect
1 11 (12.64%) Consultant
2 10 (11.49%) Developer
2 10 (11.49%) Product Owner
3 9 (10.34%) Analyst
3 9 (10.34%) Lead
3 9 (10.34%) Project Manager
4 8 (9.20%) Senior
5 7 (8.05%) Software Developer
6 6 (6.90%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Automation Specialist
8 4 (4.60%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Lead Software Developer
8 4 (4.60%) LIMS Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Administrator
9 3 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (2.30%) Business Process Analyst
10 2 (2.30%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) .NET
1 9 (10.34%) REST
2 8 (9.20%) SOAP
3 6 (6.90%) XML
4 5 (5.75%) .NET Framework
4 5 (5.75%) Middleware
4 5 (5.75%) Web Services
5 2 (2.30%) FHIR
5 2 (2.30%) IDoc
6 1 (1.15%) ADO
6 1 (1.15%) EDI
6 1 (1.15%) JSON
6 1 (1.15%) LangChain
6 1 (1.15%) LDAP
6 1 (1.15%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.15%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (1.15%) OAuth
6 1 (1.15%) pgvector
6 1 (1.15%) SAML
6 1 (1.15%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 41 (47.13%) Life Science
2 15 (17.24%) LIMS
3 10 (11.49%) Operational Technology
3 10 (11.49%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (6.90%) Biopharmaceutical
4 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.60%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.60%) SCADA
6 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
6 2 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.30%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 2 (2.30%) Pharmacovigilance
6 2 (2.30%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.15%) FMCG
7 1 (1.15%) Learning Management System
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.09%) Windows
2 10 (11.49%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.15%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) VMS
3 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.98%) Validation
2 25 (28.74%) Agile
3 24 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (26.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (18.39%) Biotechnology
6 14 (16.09%) Roadmaps
6 14 (16.09%) SDLC
6 14 (16.09%) User Stories
7 12 (13.79%) AI
7 12 (13.79%) Migration
7 12 (13.79%) Scrum
8 11 (12.64%) Acceptance Criteria
8 11 (12.64%) Data Governance
8 11 (12.64%) Data Modelling
8 11 (12.64%) Sprint Planning
9 10 (11.49%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 10 (11.49%) Kanban
9 10 (11.49%) Product Backlog
9 10 (11.49%) Product Roadmap
9 10 (11.49%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.64%) SQL
2 9 (10.34%) C#
3 7 (8.05%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.30%) Java
4 2 (2.30%) Python
5 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (16.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) CSPO
4 5 (5.75%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.75%) PMP
5 4 (4.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.30%) CISM
6 2 (2.30%) CISSP
6 2 (2.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.59%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 22 (25.29%) GMP
3 16 (18.39%) QA
4 8 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
5 5 (5.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (3.45%) EU AI Act
6 3 (3.45%) GDPR
7 2 (2.30%) GAMP
8 1 (1.15%) Good Clinical Practice
8 1 (1.15%) GRC
8 1 (1.15%) NIST
8 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) Oracle
2 11 (12.64%) SAP
3 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.34%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.60%) Rockwell
4 4 (4.60%) Splunk
4 4 (4.60%) VMware
5 3 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 3 (3.45%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.30%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (2.30%) JD Edwards
6 2 (2.30%) LabVantage
6 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.30%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.15%) Ariba
7 1 (1.15%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.15%) HP
7 1 (1.15%) Progress
7 1 (1.15%) Siebel