Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GMP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GMP over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 704 954 994
Rank change year-on-year +250 +40 -254
Permanent jobs citing GMP 23 136 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.11% 0.085%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.29% 0.61% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5 6 12
10th Percentile £55,500 £29,750 £28,875
25th Percentile - £33,308 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,325 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.36% +10.81% -15.79%
75th Percentile - £60,996 £45,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £81,500 £47,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £41,730 £40,000
% change year-on-year +43.78% +4.33% -5.88%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GMP is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,933 22,280 20,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.73% 17.63% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,817 12,040 12,594
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,875 £40,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GMP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GMP in the UK

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Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GMP.

Salary trend for GMP in the UK

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Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GMP over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for GMP in the UK

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Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GMP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
England +207 23 £60,000 +35.36% 157
UK excluding London +133 23 £60,000 +43.78% 145
North of England +79 9 £60,000 +54.00% 43
East of England +123 6 - - 19
North West +101 5 £60,000 +54.00% 30
South East +136 4 £70,000 +7.69% 32
Midlands +122 4 - - 21
East Midlands +55 4 - - 10
Yorkshire +20 4 - - 9
Work from Home +238 3 £60,000 +35.36% 47

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (13.04%) Apache
1 3 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.04%) dbt
2 3 (13.04%) Google Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
3 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.35%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) Power BI
2 11 (47.83%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 3 (13.04%) Big Data
3 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
3 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.04%) Looker
3 3 (13.04%) Tableau
General
1 17 (73.91%) Manufacturing
2 16 (69.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (69.57%) Legal
3 11 (47.83%) Finance
4 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
5 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (21.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (13.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Data Manager
1 11 (47.83%) SAP Data Manager
1 11 (47.83%) SAP Manager
1 11 (47.83%) Supply Chain Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
2 4 (17.39%) QA Leader
3 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) QA Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Quality Management
2 14 (60.87%) Analytics
2 14 (60.87%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (47.83%) Business Analytics
3 11 (47.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (47.83%) Project Management
4 7 (30.43%) Validation
5 6 (26.09%) Internal Audit
6 5 (21.74%) Change Management
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) Biochemistry
7 4 (17.39%) CAPA
7 4 (17.39%) Chemistry
7 4 (17.39%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
7 4 (17.39%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (17.39%) Risk Assessment
7 4 (17.39%) Risk Management
7 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (13.04%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Java
1 3 (13.04%) Python
1 3 (13.04%) Scala
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (78.26%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) GLP
2 1 (4.35%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft