Pharmaceutical Jobs in the South East

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 203 255
Rank change year-on-year -41 +52 +12
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 69 217 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 1.24% 1.05%
As % of the General category 1.05% 2.21% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 20 41 56
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £34,688 £41,250 £51,537
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,250 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £64,402
% change year-on-year - -22.36% +7.34%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 6,596 9,822 8,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 68.46% 56.00% 63.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,749 6,125 4,315
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the South East

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the South East.

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in the South East

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the South East

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley -23 21 £55,000 +22.22% 152
Berkshire +4 18 £53,750 +7.50% 94
Surrey +2 15 £102,500 +115.79% 40
Middlesex - 15 - -
Hampshire +66 7 £50,000 -16.67% 65
Kent +40 6 £30,000 -70.00% 38
West Sussex +28 3 - - 20
Oxfordshire -8 2 £66,250 +47.22% 22
East Sussex - 2 - - 18
Buckinghamshire +10 1 £45,000 - 37
Pharmaceutical
England

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (5.80%) SAS
2 1 (1.45%) WinCC
Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.45%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 10 (14.49%) TrackWise
2 2 (2.90%) SAP GTS
3 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.49%) Veeva
2 8 (11.59%) AWS
2 8 (11.59%) SaaS
3 5 (7.25%) Azure
3 5 (7.25%) GitHub
4 2 (2.90%) GCP
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.45%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) DNS
1 4 (5.80%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.35%) Ethernet
2 3 (4.35%) HTTP
2 3 (4.35%) SMTP
3 2 (2.90%) Modbus
3 2 (2.90%) MQTT
3 2 (2.90%) Network Security
3 2 (2.90%) VPN
4 1 (1.45%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (1.45%) DHCP
4 1 (1.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.45%) Internet
4 1 (1.45%) IPsec
4 1 (1.45%) MPLS
4 1 (1.45%) Profibus
4 1 (1.45%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.45%) Wireless
4 1 (1.45%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) MySQL
2 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.25%) SQLite
3 3 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.45%) KNIME
5 1 (1.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) Moq
2 2 (2.90%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (33.33%) Law
2 22 (31.88%) Social Skills
3 21 (30.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (18.84%) Telecoms
5 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (11.59%) Finance
6 8 (11.59%) Manufacturing
7 6 (8.70%) Legal
8 4 (5.80%) Marketing
9 3 (4.35%) Health Technology
10 2 (2.90%) Automotive
10 2 (2.90%) Digital Health
10 2 (2.90%) Local Government
10 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.45%) Advertising
11 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.29%) Analyst
2 12 (17.39%) Senior
3 8 (11.59%) IT Analyst
4 7 (10.14%) IT Support
4 7 (10.14%) IT Support Analyst
4 7 (10.14%) Support Analyst
5 6 (8.70%) Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Business Systems Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.25%) Information Security Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Sales Executive
6 5 (7.25%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.25%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Programmer
7 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.80%) SAS Programmer
8 3 (4.35%) Development Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Sales Executive
8 3 (4.35%) Solutions Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) Laravel
2 5 (7.25%) Vue
3 3 (4.35%) .NET
3 3 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.90%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.90%) FHIR
4 2 (2.90%) OAuth
4 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.90%) REST
5 1 (1.45%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.45%) CSS
5 1 (1.45%) Swagger
5 1 (1.45%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Biopharmaceutical
1 10 (14.49%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.70%) NHS
3 5 (7.25%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.25%) PACS
4 3 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.35%) SCADA
5 2 (2.90%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.90%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.90%) Industry 4.0
5 2 (2.90%) iPad
5 2 (2.90%) iPhone
5 2 (2.90%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.90%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.90%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.90%) YARA
6 1 (1.45%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (23.19%) Workflow
3 12 (17.39%) QMS
4 10 (14.49%) Change Control
4 10 (14.49%) Quality Management
4 10 (14.49%) Storage Management
4 10 (14.49%) Supplier Management
5 7 (10.14%) Analytics
5 7 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (10.14%) Incident Response
5 7 (10.14%) Risk Management
6 6 (8.70%) Business Development
6 6 (8.70%) Immunology
6 6 (8.70%) Information Security
6 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
7 5 (7.25%) Customer Service
7 5 (7.25%) Security Architecture
7 5 (7.25%) Security Operations
7 5 (7.25%) Threat Detection
7 5 (7.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) Python
2 6 (8.70%) PHP
2 6 (8.70%) SQL
3 5 (7.25%) R
4 3 (4.35%) C#
5 2 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.90%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (39.13%) Degree
2 9 (13.04%) DBS Check
3 5 (7.25%) A+ Certification
3 5 (7.25%) MCP
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.90%) CCFP
4 2 (2.90%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (2.90%) CISSP
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.90%) EnCE
4 2 (2.90%) GCFA
4 2 (2.90%) GCFE
4 2 (2.90%) GREM
4 2 (2.90%) HNC
4 2 (2.90%) HND
5 1 (1.45%) CCNP
5 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.29%) QA
2 13 (18.84%) GMP
3 2 (2.90%) SLA
4 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.45%) CDISC
4 1 (1.45%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) EnCase
1 2 (2.90%) FTK
1 2 (2.90%) Functional Safety
1 2 (2.90%) RSA Security Analytics
2 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.29%) SAP
3 6 (8.70%) Google
4 4 (5.80%) Splunk
5 3 (4.35%) AVEVA
5 3 (4.35%) Rockwell
5 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.35%) Siemens
6 2 (2.90%) FireEye
6 2 (2.90%) NetWitness
6 2 (2.90%) VMware
7 1 (1.45%) Cisco
7 1 (1.45%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.45%) Nexthink
7 1 (1.45%) Riverbed
7 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow