Pharmaceutical Jobs in the Thames Valley

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 140 149
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 +8
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 24 109 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.71% 1.62% 1.95%
As % of the General category 0.92% 3.08% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 32
10th Percentile £40,000 £28,622 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -28.00% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £57,500 £89,688
90th Percentile £85,750 £104,500 £99,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% -

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,595 3,539 3,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 76.50% 52.68% 64.48%
Number of salaries quoted 760 2,210 1,703
10th Percentile £26,988 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £34,000 £35,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,643 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £73,750 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the Thames Valley

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in the Thames Valley

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the Thames Valley

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire +22 20 £53,750 +7.50% 24
Oxfordshire -6 3 £66,250 +47.22% 10
Buckinghamshire +16 1 £45,000 - 9
Pharmaceutical
South East

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) WinCC
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SAP GTS
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
1 1 (4.17%) Profibus
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) KNIME
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Moq
1 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (33.33%) Legal
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Health Technology
5 2 (8.33%) Digital Health
6 1 (4.17%) Advertising
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Compliance Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Programmer
2 4 (16.67%) SAS Programmer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior C# Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
1 2 (8.33%) .NET Framework
1 2 (8.33%) Entity Framework
1 2 (8.33%) FHIR
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth
1 2 (8.33%) OAuth2
1 2 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) Laravel
2 1 (4.17%) Swagger
2 1 (4.17%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Biopharmaceutical
2 5 (20.83%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Life Science
3 1 (4.17%) LIMS
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Immunology
1 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.83%) Biotechnology
2 5 (20.83%) Budgeting
2 5 (20.83%) Process Improvement
3 4 (16.67%) Agile
3 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (16.67%) Contract Negotiation
3 4 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (16.67%) Logistics
3 4 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
3 4 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
3 4 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (12.50%) Validation
5 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (8.33%) Data Security
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
1 4 (16.67%) R
2 2 (8.33%) C#
2 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.17%) PHP
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) DBS Check
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) CDISC
2 1 (4.17%) GMP
2 1 (4.17%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
1 5 (20.83%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) AVEVA
2 1 (4.17%) Rockwell
2 1 (4.17%) Siemens