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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 275 366
Rank change year-on-year -76 +91 -129
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 231 681 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.95% 0.83%
As % of the General category 0.88% 1.66% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 94 244 142
10th Percentile £22,425 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -14.89% +11.37%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £72,125
90th Percentile £64,250 £78,750 £83,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £64,701
% change year-on-year - -22.72% +10.13%

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 26,274 40,993 40,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 67.82% 57.08% 68.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,596 26,506 18,404
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,000 £28,250
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 £64,559 £62,500 £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 23 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 23 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 -40 77 £30,000 -27.27% 454
South East -24 68 £50,000 +5.26% 489
East of England +18 55 £55,000 +10.00% 329
North West -27 49 £23,175 -48.50% 232
Yorkshire -5 18 £30,000 -25.00% 170
South West +58 16 £86,250 +81.58% 190
North East +50 10 £57,500 +4.55% 57
Midlands -26 9 £47,500 -20.83% 335
East Midlands -30 7 £47,500 -17.39% 134
Northern Ireland +15 3 - - 40
Scotland +99 2 - - 78
West Midlands +34 2 - - 184
Wales +31 1 £65,000 +31.13% 55
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 (1.73%) SAS
2 3 (1.30%) CMS
2 3 (1.30%) WinCC
2 3 (1.30%) WordPress
3 2 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.43%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.43%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 10 (4.33%) TrackWise
2 3 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.87%) SAP GTS
4 1 (0.43%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.26%) AWS
2 12 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (4.76%) Azure
3 11 (4.76%) Veeva
4 9 (3.90%) Amazon SageMaker
4 9 (3.90%) SaaS
5 6 (2.60%) GitHub
6 4 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.73%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.73%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.73%) Serverless
7 3 (1.30%) Google Ads
7 3 (1.30%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.30%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (1.30%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.87%) GCP
9 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.90%) Firewall
1 9 (3.90%) VPN
2 7 (3.03%) Network Security
3 5 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (1.73%) DNS
4 4 (1.73%) Internet
4 4 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.73%) VLAN
5 3 (1.30%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.30%) HTTP
5 3 (1.30%) LAN
5 3 (1.30%) Profibus
5 3 (1.30%) SMTP
5 3 (1.30%) WAN
5 3 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
6 1 (0.43%) Wireless Security
6 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.93%) MySQL
2 8 (3.46%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.60%) SQLite
5 5 (2.16%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.73%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.73%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.30%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) KNIME
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.03%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.30%) Moq
3 3 (1.30%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 87 (37.66%) Manufacturing
2 67 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (15.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (12.99%) Law
6 17 (7.36%) Marketing
7 16 (6.93%) Retail
8 14 (6.06%) Telecoms
9 10 (4.33%) Finance
10 9 (3.90%) Banking
11 8 (3.46%) Automotive
11 8 (3.46%) Legal
12 5 (2.16%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (2.16%) Electronics
12 5 (2.16%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.16%) Publishing
13 4 (1.73%) Dutch Language
13 4 (1.73%) French Language
14 3 (1.30%) Advertising
14 3 (1.30%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 39 (16.88%) Analyst
2 27 (11.69%) IT Support
3 26 (11.26%) Automation Engineer
4 25 (10.82%) IT Analyst
5 23 (9.96%) IT Support Analyst
5 23 (9.96%) Senior
5 23 (9.96%) Support Analyst
6 20 (8.66%) QA Officer
7 14 (6.06%) Field Engineer
8 12 (5.19%) 1st Line Support
8 12 (5.19%) 1st Line Support Analyst
8 12 (5.19%) Field Service Engineer
8 12 (5.19%) Lead
9 10 (4.33%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.46%) Developer
11 7 (3.03%) QA Manager
11 7 (3.03%) Quality Manager
11 7 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (2.60%) QC Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.33%) Laravel
2 9 (3.90%) Keras
2 9 (3.90%) NumPy
2 9 (3.90%) PyTorch
2 9 (3.90%) scikit-learn
2 9 (3.90%) TensorFlow
3 8 (3.46%) FHIR
4 6 (2.60%) Vue
5 5 (2.16%) JSON
6 4 (1.73%) .NET
6 4 (1.73%) Symfony
7 3 (1.30%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.30%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.30%) Entity Framework
7 3 (1.30%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.30%) OAuth
7 3 (1.30%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.30%) REST
8 2 (0.87%) Swagger
9 1 (0.43%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.09%) Biopharmaceutical
2 18 (7.79%) SCADA
3 16 (6.93%) EPoS
4 11 (4.76%) Life Science
5 10 (4.33%) NHS
5 10 (4.33%) Onboarding
6 9 (3.90%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.60%) FMCG
8 6 (2.60%) LIMS
8 6 (2.60%) PACS
9 5 (2.16%) IoT
10 4 (1.73%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.73%) Digital Media
10 4 (1.73%) iPad
10 4 (1.73%) iPhone
10 4 (1.73%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.36%) Windows
2 4 (1.73%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.73%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.30%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Linux
5 1 (0.43%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (16.45%) Validation
3 30 (12.99%) QMS
4 27 (11.69%) CAPA
5 23 (9.96%) Analytics
5 23 (9.96%) Computer Science
5 23 (9.96%) Customer Service
6 22 (9.52%) Logistics
7 20 (8.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 20 (8.66%) CRM
7 20 (8.66%) Time Management
8 18 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (7.79%) Machine Learning
8 18 (7.79%) User Experience
9 17 (7.36%) Agile
9 17 (7.36%) Roadmaps
9 17 (7.36%) Software Engineering
9 17 (7.36%) Workflow
10 14 (6.06%) Service Delivery
11 13 (5.63%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.79%) Python
2 15 (6.49%) SQL
3 10 (4.33%) PHP
4 5 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.16%) PowerShell
4 5 (2.16%) R
5 3 (1.30%) C#
5 3 (1.30%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.87%) C++
6 2 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.87%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.43%) Ada
7 1 (0.43%) C
7 1 (0.43%) Java
7 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (36.80%) Degree
2 18 (7.79%) HNC
3 15 (6.49%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.49%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.19%) HND
5 11 (4.76%) DBS Check
6 10 (4.33%) PhD
7 9 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.16%) A+ Certification
9 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.16%) MCP
10 3 (1.30%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.87%) CCFP
11 2 (0.87%) CCNA
11 2 (0.87%) CISSP
11 2 (0.87%) EnCE
11 2 (0.87%) GCFE
11 2 (0.87%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (20.78%) GMP
2 46 (19.91%) QA
3 10 (4.33%) GDPR
4 9 (3.90%) GLP
5 7 (3.03%) NIST
6 5 (2.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (2.16%) Good Clinical Practice
6 5 (2.16%) HL7
6 5 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.73%) GxP
7 4 (1.73%) SLA
8 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.87%) CDISC
10 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.43%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.43%) IFRS
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 7 (3.03%) Docker
2 4 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.30%) Firmware
4 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.87%) EnCase
2 2 (0.87%) FTK
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.87%) RSA Security Analytics
2 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (13.42%) SAP
2 25 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 24 (10.39%) Google
4 6 (2.60%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.73%) Splunk
6 3 (1.30%) AVEVA
6 3 (1.30%) Cisco
6 3 (1.30%) Minitab
6 3 (1.30%) Rockwell
6 3 (1.30%) Siemens
7 2 (0.87%) FireEye
7 2 (0.87%) NetWitness
7 2 (0.87%) Veeam
7 2 (0.87%) VMware
8 1 (0.43%) Instagram
8 1 (0.43%) Intel
8 1 (0.43%) Nexthink
8 1 (0.43%) Riverbed
8 1 (0.43%) Sparx
8 1 (0.43%) Twitter