Pharmaceutical Jobs in Berkshire

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
South East > Berkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in Berkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 115 132
Rank change year-on-year +15 +17 -29
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 20 44 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.24% 1.43% 1.77%
As % of the General category 1.64% 3.07% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 15
10th Percentile £38,125 £44,250 -
25th Percentile £40,938 £45,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -20.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £66,250 £77,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,750 £122,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% -

All General Skills
Berkshire

Pharmaceutical falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,217 1,432 2,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 75.22% 46.54% 64.75%
Number of salaries quoted 313 865 898
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,250 £34,500 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.63% -9.91%
75th Percentile £78,750 £63,750 £69,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £82,875
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in Berkshire

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in Berkshire

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in Berkshire

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Slough -23 6 - - 7
Reading +49 4 £57,500 +15.00% 5
Maidenhead -38 4 - - 3
Bracknell +33 1 - -
Pharmaceutical
South East

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 4 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) SAP GTS
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) Profibus
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) KNIME
1 1 (5.00%) MySQL
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 8 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (40.00%) Legal
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Finance
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Digital Health
5 2 (10.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (5.00%) Advertising
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Compliance Manager
1 4 (20.00%) Programmer
1 4 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 4 (20.00%) SAS Programmer
2 1 (5.00%) Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Architect
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Healthcare Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) PHP Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Senior
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Product Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Software Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Software Product Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Laravel
1 1 (5.00%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Biopharmaceutical
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Immunology
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Budgeting
2 5 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Biotechnology
3 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (20.00%) Contract Negotiation
3 4 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (20.00%) Logistics
3 4 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
3 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (15.00%) Validation
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (5.00%) Bioinformatics
6 1 (5.00%) Chemistry
6 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) R
2 1 (5.00%) PHP
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GMP
1 1 (5.00%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) AVEVA
2 1 (5.00%) Rockwell
2 1 (5.00%) Siemens