Pharmaceutical Jobs in England

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 284 362
Rank change year-on-year -100 +78 -59
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 307 858 773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.99% 0.88%
As % of the General category 0.91% 1.68% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 127 312 362
10th Percentile £23,050 £29,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £38,688 £48,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £88,125 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £85,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £64,701
% change year-on-year - -22.72% +10.13%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 33,824 51,162 59,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 69.99% 59.05% 68.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,571 35,712 32,579
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in England

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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
London -20 81 £95,000 +57.68% 358
North of England -40 77 £30,000 -27.27% 455
South East -24 68 £50,000 +5.26% 489
East of England +18 55 £55,000 +10.00% 329
North West -27 49 £23,175 -48.50% 233
Yorkshire -5 18 £30,000 -25.00% 170
South West +58 16 £86,250 +81.58% 190
North East +50 10 £57,500 +4.55% 57
Midlands -26 9 £47,500 -20.83% 335
East Midlands -30 7 £47,500 -17.39% 134
West Midlands +34 2 - - 184
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (1.30%) CMS
1 4 (1.30%) SAS
2 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.98%) WinCC
2 3 (0.98%) WordPress
3 2 (0.65%) Apache
3 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 18 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.33%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 10 (3.26%) TrackWise
2 4 (1.30%) Maximo
3 3 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.65%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 29 (9.45%) AWS
2 18 (5.86%) Azure
3 12 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (3.58%) Veeva
5 10 (3.26%) GitHub
5 10 (3.26%) SaaS
6 9 (2.93%) Amazon SageMaker
7 5 (1.63%) GCP
8 4 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.30%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.30%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.30%) Serverless
9 3 (0.98%) Google Ads
9 3 (0.98%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.98%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (0.98%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.26%) DNS
1 10 (3.26%) TCP/IP
2 9 (2.93%) Firewall
2 9 (2.93%) HTTP
2 9 (2.93%) SMTP
2 9 (2.93%) VPN
3 7 (2.28%) Network Security
4 5 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (1.30%) Internet
5 4 (1.30%) VLAN
6 3 (0.98%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.98%) LAN
6 3 (0.98%) Profibus
6 3 (0.98%) WAN
6 3 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.33%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) SAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wireless
7 1 (0.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.21%) MySQL
2 13 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.95%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 6 (1.95%) SQLite
5 5 (1.63%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.30%) DB2
6 4 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.98%) Power BI
8 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.33%) KNIME
9 1 (0.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (2.61%) Moq
1 8 (2.61%) SpecFlow
2 7 (2.28%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.28%) JIRA
3 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 90 (29.32%) Social Skills
2 87 (28.34%) Manufacturing
3 60 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (16.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (14.33%) Law
6 27 (8.79%) Telecoms
7 19 (6.19%) Marketing
8 16 (5.21%) Retail
9 11 (3.58%) Finance
10 9 (2.93%) Banking
11 8 (2.61%) Automotive
11 8 (2.61%) Legal
12 6 (1.95%) Publishing
13 5 (1.63%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.63%) Electronics
13 5 (1.63%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.30%) Dutch Language
14 4 (1.30%) French Language
14 4 (1.30%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.98%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 54 (17.59%) Analyst
2 47 (15.31%) Senior
3 32 (10.42%) Automation Engineer
4 27 (8.79%) IT Support
5 25 (8.14%) IT Analyst
6 23 (7.49%) IT Support Analyst
6 23 (7.49%) Support Analyst
7 18 (5.86%) QA Officer
8 16 (5.21%) Lead
8 16 (5.21%) Security Engineer
9 14 (4.56%) Field Engineer
9 14 (4.56%) IT Manager
10 13 (4.23%) Business Systems Analyst
10 13 (4.23%) Developer
10 13 (4.23%) Systems Analyst
11 12 (3.91%) 1st Line Support
11 12 (3.91%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 12 (3.91%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (3.91%) Field Service Engineer
12 11 (3.58%) Information Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.23%) FHIR
2 11 (3.58%) PyTorch
2 11 (3.58%) scikit-learn
2 11 (3.58%) TensorFlow
3 10 (3.26%) .NET
3 10 (3.26%) Laravel
4 9 (2.93%) Keras
4 9 (2.93%) NumPy
5 8 (2.61%) .NET Core
5 8 (2.61%) .NET Framework
5 8 (2.61%) Entity Framework
5 8 (2.61%) OAuth
5 8 (2.61%) OAuth2
5 8 (2.61%) REST
6 6 (1.95%) Swagger
6 6 (1.95%) Vue
7 5 (1.63%) JSON
7 5 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.30%) Django
8 4 (1.30%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.75%) Life Science
2 25 (8.14%) Algorithms
3 21 (6.84%) Biopharmaceutical
4 18 (5.86%) SCADA
5 16 (5.21%) EPoS
6 15 (4.89%) PACS
7 13 (4.23%) NHS
8 11 (3.58%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.26%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.95%) FMCG
10 6 (1.95%) LIMS
11 5 (1.63%) IoT
12 4 (1.30%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.30%) Digital Media
12 4 (1.30%) iPad
12 4 (1.30%) iPhone
12 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.98%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.54%) Windows
2 4 (1.30%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.30%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.98%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.33%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (19.22%) Validation
3 44 (14.33%) Analytics
3 44 (14.33%) Computer Science
4 41 (13.36%) Software Engineering
5 40 (13.03%) Biotechnology
6 38 (12.38%) QMS
7 33 (10.75%) Data Science
7 33 (10.75%) Project Management
8 32 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (9.77%) Customer Service
10 29 (9.45%) Data Security
11 28 (9.12%) Process Improvement
11 28 (9.12%) Roadmaps
12 27 (8.79%) Agile
13 26 (8.47%) Artificial Intelligence
13 26 (8.47%) Statistics
13 26 (8.47%) Visualisation
14 25 (8.14%) CAPA
14 25 (8.14%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (11.73%) Python
2 16 (5.21%) SQL
3 10 (3.26%) PHP
4 8 (2.61%) C#
4 8 (2.61%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.28%) Java
6 6 (1.95%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.63%) R
8 2 (0.65%) C
8 2 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.33%) C++
9 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 124 (40.39%) Degree
2 29 (9.45%) Master's Degree
3 28 (9.12%) PhD
4 19 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.19%) Security Cleared
5 18 (5.86%) HNC
6 14 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.91%) DBS Check
7 12 (3.91%) HND
8 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.63%) A+ Certification
9 5 (1.63%) MCP
10 4 (1.30%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.98%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.98%) MBA
12 2 (0.65%) GCFA
12 2 (0.65%) MCSE
12 2 (0.65%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (16.61%) QA
2 46 (14.98%) GMP
3 22 (7.17%) GxP
4 11 (3.58%) Good Clinical Practice
5 10 (3.26%) GDPR
6 9 (2.93%) GLP
7 7 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 7 (2.28%) NIST
8 6 (1.95%) CDISC
9 5 (1.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (1.63%) HL7
9 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (1.30%) SLA
11 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.33%) IEC 62304
12 1 (0.33%) IFRS
12 1 (0.33%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 16 (5.21%) Docker
2 4 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.98%) Firmware
4 2 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.65%) EnCase
2 2 (0.65%) FTK
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.65%) RSA Security Analytics
2 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (10.10%) SAP
2 30 (9.77%) Google
3 28 (9.12%) Microsoft
4 8 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.30%) IBM
5 4 (1.30%) Splunk
6 3 (0.98%) AVEVA
6 3 (0.98%) Cisco
6 3 (0.98%) Minitab
6 3 (0.98%) Rockwell
6 3 (0.98%) Siemens
7 2 (0.65%) FireEye
7 2 (0.65%) NetWitness
7 2 (0.65%) Veeam
7 2 (0.65%) VMware
8 1 (0.33%) Ariba
8 1 (0.33%) Informatica
8 1 (0.33%) Intel
8 1 (0.33%) Riverbed
8 1 (0.33%) Twitter