Pharmacovigilance Contract Job Trends

Pharmacovigilance
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmacovigilance in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmacovigilance over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	703	573	-
Rank change year-on-year	-130	-	-
Contract jobs citing Pharmacovigilance	3	1	0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.005%	0.003%	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.015%	0.008%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	1	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£400	£475	-
Median % change year-on-year	-15.79%	-	-
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	-	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£21.25	-	-
Median hourly rate	£22.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£22.75	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£22.00	-	-

All Generic Skills
UK

Pharmacovigilance falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing generic IT skills.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	20,097	12,720	11,274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	35.96%	35.83%	30.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	12,001	7,857	6,655
10^th Percentile	£320	£277	£281
25^th Percentile	£420	£406	£409
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£513	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+2.44%	-2.38%	-4.55%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£657
90^th Percentile	£738	£750	£788
UK excluding London median daily rate	£500	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1,560	685	355
10^th Percentile	£13.74	£13.50	£16.94
25^th Percentile	£17.50	£17.98	£22.50
Median hourly rate	£36.00	£27.00	£37.50
Median % change year-on-year	+33.33%	-28.00%	-14.77%
75^th Percentile	£68.75	£50.75	£68.75
90^th Percentile	£85.40	£72.50	£75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£26.00	£37.50
% change year-on-year	+30.77%	-30.67%	-18.80%

Pharmacovigilance Job Vacancy Trend

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

Pharmacovigilance Daily Rate Trend

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

Pharmacovigilance Hourly Rate Trend

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

Pharmacovigilance Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmacovigilance within the UK over the 6 months to 13 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-113	2	£400	-15.79%	10
South East	-	2	£400	-	2
UK excluding London	-	2	£400	-	4
Work from Home	-	1	-	-	5

Pharmacovigilance Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Pharmacovigilance also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing Pharmacovigilance.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	66.7%	2
2	AI	33.3%	1
2	Biomedicine	33.3%	1
2	Biotechnology	33.3%	1
2	Case Management	33.3%	1
2	Customer Experience	33.3%	1
2	Customer Service	33.3%	1
2	Data Extraction	33.3%	1
2	Data Protection	33.3%	1
2	Degree	33.3%	1
2	Functional Testing	33.3%	1
2	GxP	33.3%	1
2	Integration Patterns	33.3%	1
2	Machine Learning	33.3%	1
2	Regulatory Compliance	33.3%	1
2	Risk Assessment	33.3%	1
2	SaaS	33.3%	1
2	Strategic Thinking	33.3%	1
2	Validation	33.3%	1
2	Veeva	33.3%	1

Pharmacovigilance Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Life Science	66.7%	2
2	Cloud Native	33.3%	1
2	Data Protection Act	33.3%	1
2	Data Structures	33.3%	1
2	Enterprise Software	33.3%	1
2	Management Information System	33.3%	1