Pharmaceutical Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in Oxfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 71 63
Rank change year-on-year +22 -8 +17
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 5 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.68% 0.89% 1.06%
As % of the General category 1.51% 1.40% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £50,022 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,242 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.85% +13.87% -35.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £52,462 £47,500
90th Percentile £86,500 - -
South East median annual salary £61,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +23.50% +11.11% -33.33%

All General Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 331 500 445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 45.28% 63.61% 58.86%
Number of salaries quoted 233 202 368
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% +3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Pharmaceutical.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in Oxfordshire

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Oxford +9 4 £65,000 - 12
Pharmaceutical
South East

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (20.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Business Development Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Business Manager
1 4 (80.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Development
2 3 (60.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) OWASP
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle