Pharmaceutical Jobs 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 278 374
Rank change year-on-year -79 +96 -135
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 241 701 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.94% 0.82%
As % of the General category 0.90% 1.67% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 97 249 142
10th Percentile £22,425 £28,962 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +7.48%
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £70,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £85,000 £83,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +4.17%

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 common skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,890 41,891 38,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.76% 55.94% 68.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12,017 26,910 18,141
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,908 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 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
North of England -42 83 £30,000 -27.27% 116
South East -46 69 £50,000 +5.26% 98
East of England +29 56 £55,000 +10.00% 69
North West -22 54 £23,500 -47.78% 69
Yorkshire -11 18 £30,000 -25.00% 36
South West +62 16 £86,250 +81.58% 17
North East +54 11 £53,125 -3.41% 16
Midlands -34 10 £47,500 -20.83% 56
East Midlands -21 8 £47,500 -7.32% 22
Scotland +99 3 £62,500 -3.85% 18
Northern Ireland +17 3 - - 12
West Midlands +22 2 - - 34
Wales +36 1 £65,000 +31.13% 12
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
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 (1.66%) SAS
2 3 (1.24%) CMS
2 3 (1.24%) WinCC
2 3 (1.24%) WordPress
3 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (6.64%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.41%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.41%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.15%) TrackWise
2 3 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.83%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.41%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 25 (10.37%) AWS
2 12 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (4.56%) Veeva
4 10 (4.15%) Azure
5 9 (3.73%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (3.32%) SaaS
7 5 (2.07%) GitHub
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.66%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.66%) Serverless
9 3 (1.24%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.24%) Google Ads
9 3 (1.24%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.24%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (1.24%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.83%) GCP
11 1 (0.41%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.56%) Firewall
1 11 (4.56%) VPN
2 9 (3.73%) Network Security
3 7 (2.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (2.49%) Ethernet
5 5 (2.07%) Modbus
6 4 (1.66%) DNS
6 4 (1.66%) Internet
6 4 (1.66%) MQTT
6 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.66%) VLAN
7 3 (1.24%) HTTP
7 3 (1.24%) LAN
7 3 (1.24%) Profibus
7 3 (1.24%) SMTP
7 3 (1.24%) WAN
7 3 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.41%) NAS
8 1 (0.41%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (0.41%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.22%) MySQL
2 8 (3.32%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.07%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.07%) SQLite
5 4 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.66%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (1.66%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.24%) Power BI
7 2 (0.83%) Tableau
8 1 (0.41%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 7 (2.90%) JIRA
2 6 (2.49%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.24%) Moq
3 3 (1.24%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 92 (38.17%) Manufacturing
2 70 (29.05%) Social Skills
3 36 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (14.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (12.03%) Law
6 18 (7.47%) Retail
7 17 (7.05%) Marketing
8 13 (5.39%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.56%) Banking
9 11 (4.56%) Finance
10 10 (4.15%) Automotive
11 8 (3.32%) Legal
12 7 (2.90%) Publishing
13 5 (2.07%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (2.07%) Electronics
13 5 (2.07%) Public Sector
14 4 (1.66%) Dutch Language
14 4 (1.66%) French Language
15 3 (1.24%) Advertising
15 3 (1.24%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 41 (17.01%) Analyst
2 31 (12.86%) IT Support
3 29 (12.03%) Automation Engineer
4 28 (11.62%) IT Analyst
5 26 (10.79%) IT Support Analyst
5 26 (10.79%) Support Analyst
6 25 (10.37%) Senior
7 20 (8.30%) QA Officer
8 16 (6.64%) Lead
9 14 (5.81%) Field Engineer
10 13 (5.39%) 1st Line Support
10 13 (5.39%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 12 (4.98%) Field Service Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
13 7 (2.90%) Architect
13 7 (2.90%) Developer
13 7 (2.90%) QA Manager
13 7 (2.90%) Quality Manager
14 6 (2.49%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.73%) Keras
1 9 (3.73%) Laravel
1 9 (3.73%) NumPy
1 9 (3.73%) PyTorch
1 9 (3.73%) scikit-learn
1 9 (3.73%) TensorFlow
2 8 (3.32%) .NET
2 8 (3.32%) FHIR
3 5 (2.07%) JSON
3 5 (2.07%) Vue
4 4 (1.66%) Symfony
5 3 (1.24%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.24%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.24%) Entity Framework
5 3 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.24%) OAuth
5 3 (1.24%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.24%) REST
6 2 (0.83%) CSS
6 2 (0.83%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.79%) Biopharmaceutical
2 23 (9.54%) SCADA
3 18 (7.47%) EPoS
4 12 (4.98%) Life Science
5 10 (4.15%) NHS
5 10 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.73%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.73%) IoT
7 8 (3.32%) FMCG
7 8 (3.32%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (2.90%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.49%) LIMS
10 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.07%) iPad
10 5 (2.07%) iPhone
10 5 (2.07%) Operational Technology
10 5 (2.07%) PACS
11 4 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (1.66%) Digital Media
11 4 (1.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.05%) Windows
2 5 (2.07%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.24%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Linux
5 1 (0.41%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (15.77%) Validation
3 30 (12.45%) QMS
4 27 (11.20%) CAPA
5 24 (9.96%) Customer Service
6 23 (9.54%) Analytics
6 23 (9.54%) Computer Science
6 23 (9.54%) Logistics
7 22 (9.13%) CRM
7 22 (9.13%) Time Management
8 20 (8.30%) Artificial Intelligence
9 18 (7.47%) Agile
9 18 (7.47%) Machine Learning
10 17 (7.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (7.05%) Roadmaps
10 17 (7.05%) Software Engineering
10 17 (7.05%) User Experience
11 16 (6.64%) Workflow
12 15 (6.22%) Service Delivery
13 13 (5.39%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 20 (8.30%) Python
2 16 (6.64%) SQL
3 9 (3.73%) PHP
4 7 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.49%) C#
6 5 (2.07%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.07%) R
7 3 (1.24%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.83%) C++
8 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.83%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.41%) Ada
9 1 (0.41%) C
9 1 (0.41%) Java
9 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (37.76%) Degree
2 22 (9.13%) HNC
3 16 (6.64%) HND
3 16 (6.64%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.39%) DBS Check
6 10 (4.15%) PhD
7 9 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.90%) Chartered Engineer
9 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.07%) A+ Certification
10 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
10 5 (2.07%) MCP
11 2 (0.83%) CCFP
11 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.83%) CISSP
11 2 (0.83%) EnCE
11 2 (0.83%) GCFE
11 2 (0.83%) GREM
11 2 (0.83%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (19.50%) GMP
1 47 (19.50%) QA
2 12 (4.98%) GDPR
3 9 (3.73%) GLP
3 9 (3.73%) NIST
4 7 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.07%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 5 (2.07%) Good Clinical Practice
5 5 (2.07%) HL7
5 5 (2.07%) SLA
6 4 (1.66%) GxP
7 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.83%) CDISC
9 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.41%) IEC 62304
9 1 (0.41%) IFRS
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 13485
9 1 (0.41%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (2.90%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) Firmware
3 3 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (2.07%) Functional Safety
2 4 (1.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.83%) EnCase
3 2 (0.83%) FTK
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.83%) RSA Security Analytics
3 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 30 (12.45%) SAP
2 26 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.96%) Google
4 7 (2.90%) AVEVA
4 7 (2.90%) Rockwell
4 7 (2.90%) Siemens
5 6 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.66%) Splunk
6 4 (1.66%) VMware
7 3 (1.24%) Minitab
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco
8 2 (0.83%) FireEye
8 2 (0.83%) NetWitness
9 1 (0.41%) Instagram
9 1 (0.41%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.41%) Riverbed
9 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.41%) Sparx
9 1 (0.41%) Twitter
9 1 (0.41%) Veeam