Pharmaceutical Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 269 298
Rank change year-on-year +24 +29 +31
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 426 243 577
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 0.92% 0.86%
As % of the General category 1.38% 1.35% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 233 82 220
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,750 £72,000 £79,375
UK median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.07% -2.38% -19.23%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 30,802 18,061 39,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.41% 68.42% 58.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15,866 9,341 26,386
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,375 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £35,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,055 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% +5.38% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £75,772
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,400 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +13.14% -12.50%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pharmaceutical.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
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 Pharmaceutical within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
North of England +25 154 £55,000 +66.67% 41
South East -3 133 £55,000 +10.00% 30
North West +38 99 £60,000 +81.82% 29
Yorkshire -22 55 £55,000 +83.33% 9
Midlands -8 51 £55,000 +15.79% 17
South West -27 38 £57,500 +4.55% 10
East Midlands -18 34 £50,000 +5.26% 11
East of England -46 22 £50,000 -9.09% 12
West Midlands -9 17 £60,000 -7.69% 6
Wales -17 12 £24,000 -63.08% 4
Scotland -21 9 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Northern Ireland -31 7 - - 1
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.41%) IIS
2 2 (0.47%) Confluence
2 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (6.57%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (5.40%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.47%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.47%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Q-Pulse
1 5 (1.17%) SAP GTS
2 2 (0.47%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 35 (8.22%) AWS
2 17 (3.99%) Azure
3 10 (2.35%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.11%) GCP
5 8 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.64%) SaaS
7 5 (1.17%) Snowflake
8 4 (0.94%) Veeva
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.23%) Collibra
9 1 (0.23%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.23%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.23%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.23%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.23%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.23%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.94%) MQTT
2 2 (0.47%) 4G
2 2 (0.47%) LAN
2 2 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.23%) Firewall
3 1 (0.23%) FTP
3 1 (0.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.35%) Power BI
1 10 (2.35%) Spotfire
2 8 (1.88%) Tableau
3 5 (1.17%) Big Data
3 5 (1.17%) Data Mining
3 5 (1.17%) Hadoop
3 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.70%) Neo4j
5 2 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.47%) MySQL
5 2 (0.47%) Pinecone
5 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.23%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Git
1 2 (0.47%) JIRA
2 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
General
1 101 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.74%) Manufacturing
3 43 (10.09%) Finance
4 32 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.57%) Marketing
6 27 (6.34%) Influencing Skills
7 26 (6.10%) Retail
8 13 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.58%) Health Technology
10 8 (1.88%) Automotive
11 7 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.41%) Legal
13 5 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.17%) Electronics
14 4 (0.94%) Banking
14 4 (0.94%) German Language
14 4 (0.94%) Law
14 4 (0.94%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 89 (20.89%) Senior
2 74 (17.37%) Account Manager
3 69 (16.20%) Senior Manager
4 63 (14.79%) Development Manager
5 42 (9.86%) Software Engineer
6 39 (9.15%) Business Development Manager
6 39 (9.15%) Business Manager
7 33 (7.75%) Senior Account Manager
8 30 (7.04%) Lead
9 29 (6.81%) Analyst
10 24 (5.63%) Development Project Manager
10 24 (5.63%) Project Manager
10 24 (5.63%) Senior Development Manager
10 24 (5.63%) Senior Project Manager
11 16 (3.76%) Junior
11 16 (3.76%) QA Officer
12 12 (2.82%) Security Analyst
13 11 (2.58%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.35%) Data Manager
14 10 (2.35%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.41%) Pandas
1 6 (1.41%) PyTorch
1 6 (1.41%) scikit-learn
2 5 (1.17%) Play Framework
3 3 (0.70%) Symfony
4 2 (0.47%) .NET
4 2 (0.47%) CSS
4 2 (0.47%) HTML
4 2 (0.47%) Middleware
4 2 (0.47%) pgvector
4 2 (0.47%) REST
4 2 (0.47%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) DOM
5 1 (0.23%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) NestJS
5 1 (0.23%) React
5 1 (0.23%) Spring
5 1 (0.23%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.27%) Life Science
2 24 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (3.76%) FMCG
4 12 (2.82%) Driving Licence
4 12 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.58%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.11%) NHS
7 7 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.64%) Robotics
8 6 (1.41%) Pharmacovigilance
9 5 (1.17%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.94%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.70%) SCADA
11 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.47%) EPoS
12 2 (0.47%) Legacy Code
12 2 (0.47%) LIMS
12 2 (0.47%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.11%) Linux
2 7 (1.64%) Windows
3 2 (0.47%) Android
3 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (12.68%) Biotechnology
2 50 (11.74%) Agile
3 49 (11.50%) Project Management
4 48 (11.27%) Hematology
4 48 (11.27%) Immunology
5 47 (11.03%) Decision-Making
6 43 (10.09%) Business Development
6 43 (10.09%) Computer Science
7 42 (9.86%) Software Engineering
8 40 (9.39%) Analytics
9 37 (8.69%) Digital Transformation Strategy
10 33 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (7.51%) AI
11 32 (7.51%) Machine Learning
11 32 (7.51%) Roadmaps
12 31 (7.28%) Data Science
12 31 (7.28%) Logistics
13 27 (6.34%) Validation
14 26 (6.10%) Risk Management
14 26 (6.10%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.10%) Python
1 26 (6.10%) SQL
2 13 (3.05%) Java
3 12 (2.82%) C++
4 9 (2.11%) PHP
5 7 (1.64%) C
5 7 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.41%) R
7 5 (1.17%) C#
7 5 (1.17%) Scala
8 2 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.23%) Bash
9 1 (0.23%) Go
9 1 (0.23%) Perl
9 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.23%) SHACL
9 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 129 (30.28%) Degree
2 30 (7.04%) Master's Degree
3 27 (6.34%) PMP
4 24 (5.63%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.76%) PhD
6 10 (2.35%) CISM
6 10 (2.35%) CISSP
7 8 (1.88%) MBA
8 7 (1.64%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.94%) HNC
10 3 (0.70%) HND
11 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.47%) NVQ Level 3
11 2 (0.47%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.23%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.39%) QA
2 28 (6.57%) Accessibility
3 27 (6.34%) GMP
4 25 (5.87%) GxP
5 13 (3.05%) GDPR
6 12 (2.82%) Good Clinical Practice
7 7 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.17%) COSHH
9 3 (0.70%) NEBOSH
9 3 (0.70%) SLA
10 2 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.47%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.47%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (0.70%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (0.47%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.47%) Terraform
2 1 (0.23%) CASB
2 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.82%) Databricks
2 12 (2.82%) SAP
3 11 (2.58%) Google
4 8 (1.88%) Allen-Bradley
4 8 (1.88%) Siemens
5 5 (1.17%) BT
6 3 (0.70%) Wonderware
7 2 (0.47%) Agilent
7 2 (0.47%) Apple
7 2 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.47%) Intel
7 2 (0.47%) Meraki
7 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.47%) Wyse
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe
8 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.23%) Foundry
8 1 (0.23%) Palantir
8 1 (0.23%) Spotify