Biopharmaceutical Jobs in the UK excluding London

Biopharmaceutical
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biopharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Biopharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 686 694
Rank change year-on-year +125 +8 -153
Permanent jobs citing Biopharmaceutical 25 73 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.10% 0.096%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.30% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -31.82% +4.27%
75th Percentile - £43,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £44,400 £59,375
UK median annual salary £40,000 £41,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% -25.45% +5.77%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Biopharmaceutical falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,489 24,183 24,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.04% 33.76% 42.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,041 15,206 11,126
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £40,275
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Biopharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Biopharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Biopharmaceutical
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Biopharmaceutical in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Biopharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Biopharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Biopharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Biopharmaceutical
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Biopharmaceutical within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South East +41 10 - - 20
East of England +50 9 £75,000 - 11
North of England +40 4 £45,000 +20.00% 9
North West -4 4 £45,000 +20.00% 4
South West +116 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
Biopharmaceutical
UK

Biopharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (8.00%) GitHub
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
1 2 (8.00%) LAN
1 2 (8.00%) VLAN
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
1 2 (8.00%) WAN
1 2 (8.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
1 2 (8.00%) JMeter
1 2 (8.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 21 (84.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (44.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Law
5 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (12.00%) Banking
7 2 (8.00%) Digital Health
7 2 (8.00%) Health Technology
7 2 (8.00%) Legal
8 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
1 5 (20.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Programmer
2 4 (16.00%) SAS Programmer
2 4 (16.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) IT Support
3 3 (12.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) QA Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) Senior
3 3 (12.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 3 (12.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Product Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Playwright
2 1 (4.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) iPad
1 3 (12.00%) iPhone
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Validation
2 8 (32.00%) Immunology
3 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.00%) Neuroscience
4 4 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) Biotechnology
4 4 (16.00%) Chemistry
4 4 (16.00%) Internal Audit
4 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (16.00%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Tech Ops
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Biochemistry
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Service
5 3 (12.00%) Informatics
5 3 (12.00%) Proactive Maintenance
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Time Management
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) R
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (36.00%) DBS Check
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) GMP
1 6 (24.00%) GxP
2 5 (20.00%) QA
3 3 (12.00%) SLA
4 2 (8.00%) GDPR
4 2 (8.00%) NIST
4 2 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (4.00%) GLP
5 1 (4.00%) ISO 9001
5 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) Salesforce