Pharmaceutical Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Central London > West End of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies in West End of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 2.70% 2.63% -
As % of the General category 5.26% 4.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Central London median daily rate £775 £394 £575
% change year-on-year +96.83% -31.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All General Skills
West End of London

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 general skills in West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 19 46 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 51.35% 60.53% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 17
10th Percentile £433 £430 £163
25th Percentile £494 £450 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £487 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.96% -7.24% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £650
90th Percentile £646 £619 £869
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +34.62% -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -19.66% +32.65% -39.51%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Pharmaceutical relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in West End of London

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Pharmaceutical.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Run
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL