Pharmaceutical Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 190 267
Rank change year-on-year -8 +77 +34
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 106 161 221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.07% 1.05% 0.85%
As % of the General category 1.72% 1.78% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 99 138
10th Percentile £409 £360 £350
25th Percentile £450 £477 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £666 £613 £638
90th Percentile £1,065 £725 £679
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 4
10th Percentile £19.00 £26.45 -
25th Percentile £37.13 £29.31 £30.00
Median hourly rate £95.00 £56.25 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.89% +56.25% -26.53%
75th Percentile £97.50 £60.00 £47.44
90th Percentile - £68.78 £57.23
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.16 £36.00
% change year-on-year +7.76% -16.22% -26.53%

All General Skills
Work from Home

Pharmaceutical falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,176 9,033 15,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 62.35% 58.87% 58.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,155 5,908 10,633
10th Percentile £325 £331 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 477 347
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.03 £19.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.61 £29.31
Median hourly rate £32.05 £38.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.92% -23.76% +61.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £53.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.93 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%

Pharmaceutical
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Pharmaceutical trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Pharmaceutical.

Pharmaceutical daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Pharmaceutical daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Pharmaceutical.

Pharmaceutical hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Pharmaceutical hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.94%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 25 (23.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (4.72%) SAP MM
3 4 (3.77%) SAP IBP
4 3 (2.83%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.94%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.94%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.94%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.94%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.36%) AWS
2 4 (3.77%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (1.89%) Power Automate
3 2 (1.89%) Veeva
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.94%) Azure
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (0.94%) dbt
4 1 (0.94%) GCP
4 1 (0.94%) GitHub
4 1 (0.94%) iPaaS
4 1 (0.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) Firewall
2 2 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) Big Data
1 4 (3.77%) Data Lake
1 4 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.77%) Metadata
1 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.77%) Power BI
1 4 (3.77%) RDBMS
1 4 (3.77%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.94%) Neo4j
2 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.77%) ER Studio
1 4 (3.77%) ERwin
1 4 (3.77%) JIRA
2 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.94%) Git
2 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.94%) JMeter
2 1 (0.94%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.94%) NeoLoad
2 1 (0.94%) Selenium
General
1 29 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.64%) Finance
3 10 (9.43%) Manufacturing
4 9 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Italian Language
7 3 (2.83%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.83%) Legal
7 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Law
8 2 (1.89%) Publishing
8 2 (1.89%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.94%) Automotive
9 1 (0.94%) French Language
9 1 (0.94%) German Language
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Developer
2 16 (15.09%) Consultant
3 14 (13.21%) Lead
4 11 (10.38%) Analyst
5 10 (9.43%) SAP Consultant
6 9 (8.49%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.60%) React Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.72%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Integration Consultant
9 5 (4.72%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Senior
10 4 (3.77%) AWS Developer
10 4 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Data Modeller
10 4 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 4 (3.77%) SAP Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.77%) CSS
1 4 (3.77%) EDI
1 4 (3.77%) HTML
2 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
2 2 (1.89%) LDAP
2 2 (1.89%) NumPy
2 2 (1.89%) Pandas
2 2 (1.89%) React
2 2 (1.89%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.94%) CSS3
3 1 (0.94%) Flask
3 1 (0.94%) HTML5
3 1 (0.94%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.94%) Plotly
3 1 (0.94%) PySpark
3 1 (0.94%) RESTful
3 1 (0.94%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.94%) Spring
3 1 (0.94%) Spring Batch
3 1 (0.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.55%) Life Science
2 5 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.77%) Data Fabric
4 3 (2.83%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.89%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.89%) FMCG
5 2 (1.89%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.89%) PMI
6 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.94%) Genomics
6 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.94%) LIMS
6 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.94%) NHS
6 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (21.70%) Stakeholder Management
2 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (14.15%) Process Improvement
4 13 (12.26%) Agile
4 13 (12.26%) ETL
4 13 (12.26%) Project Management
5 11 (10.38%) Record to Report
6 8 (7.55%) DevOps
7 7 (6.60%) Data Governance
7 7 (6.60%) Migration
7 7 (6.60%) Waterfall
8 6 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (5.66%) Data Analysis
8 6 (5.66%) Data Modelling
8 6 (5.66%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (4.72%) Analytics
9 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (4.72%) Validation
10 4 (3.77%) CI/CD
10 4 (3.77%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.70%) Python
2 7 (6.60%) Java
3 5 (4.72%) SQL
4 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.94%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 15 (14.15%) Degree
2 6 (5.66%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.83%) PMI Certification
3 3 (2.83%) PMP
4 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.89%) CISA
4 2 (1.89%) CISM
4 2 (1.89%) CISSP
5 1 (0.94%) AAT
5 1 (0.94%) ACCA
5 1 (0.94%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.94%) CIMA
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
1 6 (5.66%) GxP
2 4 (3.77%) QA
3 3 (2.83%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (2.83%) HIPAA
3 3 (2.83%) PMO
4 2 (1.89%) NIST
4 2 (1.89%) NIST 800
4 2 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.94%) GAAP
5 1 (0.94%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.94%) IFRS
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.66%) Terraform
2 3 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.94%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.94%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 37 (34.91%) SAP
2 5 (4.72%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.77%) Ariba
4 2 (1.89%) Aruba
4 2 (1.89%) Cisco
4 2 (1.89%) F5
4 2 (1.89%) Imperva
5 1 (0.94%) Conga
5 1 (0.94%) CyberArk
5 1 (0.94%) Google
5 1 (0.94%) HP
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle