Pharmaceutical Contracts

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 222 273 321
Rank change year-on-year +51 +48 +51
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 367 378 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 0.87% 0.78%
As % of the General category 1.85% 1.52% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 226 274
10th Percentile £353 £363 £300
25th Percentile £475 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -3.81%
75th Percentile £688 £600 £625
90th Percentile £796 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 37 19
10th Percentile £16.22 £19.24 £17.04
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £51.80 £30.16 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +71.73% +33.87% -54.02%
75th Percentile £97.50 £55.00 £62.75
90th Percentile - £63.12 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £40.00 £19.86
% change year-on-year -52.83% +101.41% -47.04%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,793 24,809 32,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.18% 57.07% 58.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,417 15,531 22,541
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.57% -2.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1,954 1,037
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.81 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.62 £16.85
Median hourly rate £27.28 £31.76 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.09% +4.11% +24.90%
75th Percentile £52.00 £53.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.38 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £30.60 £25.13
% change year-on-year -24.83% +21.78% +25.63%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 July 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
England +34 306 £550 +7.84% 2,004
UK excluding London +4 159 £550 +10.00% 1,185
Work from Home +10 110 £525 -4.55% 822
London +45 93 £688 +19.65% 885
East of England +18 75 £550 +15.79% 184
North of England -21 60 £550 +10.00% 305
North West -9 56 £550 +10.00% 190
South East +25 9 £638 +27.25% 299
Midlands +14 7 £500 +1.27% 169
Wales - 7 £305 - 30
South West +30 4 £750 - 120
East Midlands +6 4 £500 - 78
West Midlands +5 3 £525 +6.33% 91
North East - 3 - - 25
Scotland -1 1 £438 - 69
Yorkshire -6 1 - - 92

Pharmaceutical
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 7 (1.91%) Confluence
2 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.54%) SAS
4 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) CMS
4 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.27%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 100 (27.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.18%) SAP PP
3 7 (1.91%) SAP ERP
3 7 (1.91%) SAP MM
4 6 (1.63%) SAP IBP
4 6 (1.63%) SAP VC
5 5 (1.36%) SAP PLM
6 4 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.82%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.82%) SAP MII
7 3 (0.82%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.82%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.54%) SAP APO
8 2 (0.54%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.27%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.27%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.27%) Shopify
9 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.90%) AWS
2 14 (3.81%) Azure
3 10 (2.72%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.45%) GitHub
5 7 (1.91%) Veeva
6 6 (1.63%) GCP
6 6 (1.63%) Snowflake
7 4 (1.09%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.09%) Azure AI
7 4 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.09%) Google Gemini
7 4 (1.09%) SaaS
7 4 (1.09%) Serverless
8 3 (0.82%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.82%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (0.82%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (0.82%) iPaaS
8 3 (0.82%) OCI
8 3 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.72%) Firewall
2 5 (1.36%) Network Security
3 2 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.54%) NGFW
3 2 (0.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.27%) Intranet
4 1 (0.27%) LAN
4 1 (0.27%) Skype
4 1 (0.27%) VLAN
4 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.54%) Metadata
2 11 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (2.72%) Power BI
4 9 (2.45%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.63%) Big Data
6 5 (1.36%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.36%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.09%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.09%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.09%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.54%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.54%) Tableau
8 2 (0.54%) Text Mining
9 1 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.27%) DTS
9 1 (0.27%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 17 (4.63%) JIRA
2 5 (1.36%) ERwin
2 5 (1.36%) LoadRunner
2 5 (1.36%) NeoLoad
3 4 (1.09%) ER Studio
3 4 (1.09%) Git
4 3 (0.82%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.82%) JMeter
5 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
General
1 116 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 100 (27.25%) Finance
3 50 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (12.81%) Manufacturing
5 21 (5.72%) Legal
6 15 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (3.00%) Marketing
8 10 (2.72%) Banking
9 7 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.36%) German Language
11 5 (1.36%) Italian Language
11 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.36%) Retail
12 4 (1.09%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.82%) Law
14 1 (0.27%) Automotive
14 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (16.08%) Lead
2 37 (10.08%) Consultant
3 34 (9.26%) Project Manager
4 33 (8.99%) Analyst
5 30 (8.17%) Developer
6 27 (7.36%) SAP Consultant
7 25 (6.81%) Business Analyst
8 22 (5.99%) Senior
9 20 (5.45%) Architect
10 15 (4.09%) AWS Developer
10 15 (4.09%) SAP Manager
11 13 (3.54%) IT Manager
12 11 (3.00%) Python Developer
13 10 (2.72%) React Developer
14 9 (2.45%) SAP Analyst
14 9 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
15 8 (2.18%) Designer
15 8 (2.18%) IT Project Manager
15 8 (2.18%) SAP Business Analyst
15 8 (2.18%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.18%) Middleware
2 5 (1.36%) React
3 4 (1.09%) EDI
3 4 (1.09%) PyTorch
3 4 (1.09%) TensorFlow
4 3 (0.82%) CSS
4 3 (0.82%) HTML
5 2 (0.54%) .NET
5 2 (0.54%) AWS Amplify
5 2 (0.54%) FHIR
5 2 (0.54%) Kafka
5 2 (0.54%) LDAP
5 2 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.54%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.27%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.27%) FastAPI
6 1 (0.27%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Core Interface
6 1 (0.27%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.71%) Life Science
2 15 (4.09%) FMCG
3 10 (2.72%) LIMS
4 9 (2.45%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.18%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.18%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.91%) Data Fabric
6 7 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.91%) NHS
7 6 (1.63%) Genomics
7 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.36%) CRISPR
8 5 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.09%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.82%) Omics
10 3 (0.82%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.18%) Linux
2 5 (1.36%) Windows
3 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.82%) Unix
3 3 (0.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 55 (14.99%) Agile
4 52 (14.17%) Project Management
5 40 (10.90%) Analytics
6 37 (10.08%) Migration
7 33 (8.99%) Data Governance
7 33 (8.99%) Data Management
8 32 (8.72%) Change Management
9 29 (7.90%) Process Improvement
10 26 (7.08%) User Acceptance Testing
11 25 (6.81%) ERP
11 25 (6.81%) Record to Report
11 25 (6.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 24 (6.54%) Decision-Making
13 23 (6.27%) Data Design
14 22 (5.99%) Artificial Intelligence
14 22 (5.99%) Data Analysis
14 22 (5.99%) ETL
15 21 (5.72%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (14.44%) Python
2 20 (5.45%) SQL
3 13 (3.54%) R
4 9 (2.45%) Java
5 5 (1.36%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.09%) ABAP
7 3 (0.82%) Scala
8 2 (0.54%) C#
8 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.54%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.27%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.27%) Bicep
9 1 (0.27%) Groovy
9 1 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 54 (14.71%) Degree
2 15 (4.09%) Master's Degree
3 9 (2.45%) PMI Certification
3 9 (2.45%) PMP
4 8 (2.18%) ACCA
4 8 (2.18%) CIMA
5 7 (1.91%) Security Cleared
6 6 (1.63%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.82%) CISM
7 3 (0.82%) CISSP
7 3 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.54%) CCA
8 2 (0.54%) CCNP
8 2 (0.54%) CCSA
8 2 (0.54%) CISA
8 2 (0.54%) PhD
8 2 (0.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.72%) GxP
2 26 (7.08%) Data Quality
3 19 (5.18%) QA
4 11 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (2.72%) PMO
6 8 (2.18%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.63%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.09%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (1.09%) APQC
9 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.82%) NCSC
9 3 (0.82%) SLA
10 2 (0.54%) GDPR
10 2 (0.54%) HL7
10 2 (0.54%) NIST
10 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.27%) GAAP
11 1 (0.27%) GMP
11 1 (0.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 10 (2.72%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.63%) Terraform
3 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.54%) CASB
4 2 (0.54%) TeamSite
5 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 164 (44.69%) SAP
2 36 (9.81%) Ariba
3 24 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.18%) Cisco
4 8 (2.18%) Oracle
4 8 (2.18%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.63%) HP
5 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.63%) Siemens
6 5 (1.36%) Workday
7 4 (1.09%) Anaplan
7 4 (1.09%) Hyperion
7 4 (1.09%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.09%) Remedy
7 4 (1.09%) Sparx
7 4 (1.09%) Zscaler
8 3 (0.82%) Fortinet
8 3 (0.82%) Veeam
8 3 (0.82%) VMware
9 2 (0.54%) Google