Pharmaceutical Jobs in Cambridge

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 64 53
Rank change year-on-year +37 -11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 16 21 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 6.30% 2.03% 4.68%
As % of the General category 9.82% 3.85% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 7
10th Percentile £32,875 £33,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,063 - £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -13.04% -32.35%
75th Percentile £69,063 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,625 - £82,250
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £53,750 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -23.21% +21.74% -32.35%

All General Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 163 545 584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 64.17% 52.71% 65.03%
Number of salaries quoted 96 417 213
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £29,023
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £80,001 £77,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in Cambridge

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in Cambridge

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in Cambridge over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in Cambridge

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Amazon SageMaker
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) LAN
1 2 (12.50%) VLAN
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) WAN
1 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Moq
1 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (75.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Law
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) QA Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Security Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Product Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) Keras
1 9 (56.25%) NumPy
1 9 (56.25%) PyTorch
1 9 (56.25%) scikit-learn
1 9 (56.25%) TensorFlow
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
2 1 (6.25%) FHIR
2 1 (6.25%) MFC
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) STL
2 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Algorithms
2 5 (31.25%) Biopharmaceutical
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Analytics
1 11 (68.75%) Computer Science
1 11 (68.75%) Software Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (56.25%) Bioinformatics
2 9 (56.25%) Biology
2 9 (56.25%) Computational Biology
2 9 (56.25%) Data Analytics
2 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) Data Transformation
2 9 (56.25%) Data Visualisation
2 9 (56.25%) Deep Learning
2 9 (56.25%) Machine Learning
2 9 (56.25%) Mathematics
2 9 (56.25%) Physics
2 9 (56.25%) PLM
2 9 (56.25%) Statistics
2 9 (56.25%) User Experience
2 9 (56.25%) UX Design
2 9 (56.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) C++
2 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Degree
2 9 (56.25%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) GMP
2 3 (18.75%) GxP
3 2 (12.50%) GDPR
3 2 (12.50%) NIST
3 2 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (6.25%) CDISC
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft