Pharmaceutical Job Trends in Glasgow

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - 206
Rank change year-on-year - - -104
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 2 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.20% - 0.30%
As % of the General category 0.43% - 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £117,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £132,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £125,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +100.00% -3.85% -

All General Skills
Glasgow

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 general skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 462 470 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 46.43% 77.69% 79.34%
Number of salaries quoted 232 150 461
10th Percentile £27,025 £25,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £29,938 £32,588 £39,347
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,688 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -13.04%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Pharmaceutical relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Pharmaceutical.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 2 (100.00%) Pinecone
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 2 (100.00%) Automotive
1 2 (100.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (100.00%) IoT
1 2 (100.00%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki