Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GMP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GMP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 634 934
Rank change year-on-year +69 +300 +180
Permanent jobs citing GMP 127 267 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.27% 0.053%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.44% 1.97% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 32 37 3
10th Percentile - £35,000 £43,271
25th Percentile £27,500 £36,250 £44,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £46,921
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +27.88% -24.93%
75th Percentile £43,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £45,000 - £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £45,960
% change year-on-year +36.36% +19.67% -26.46%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GMP falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 8,849 13,550 19,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.00% 13.76% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4,601 9,267 9,193
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%

GMP
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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GMP in the UK

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Top 16 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 1 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
England +52 122 £30,000 -50.00% 50
UK excluding London +40 65 £75,000 +36.36% 38
London +141 62 £30,000 -50.00% 14
South East +59 23 - - 9
North of England +39 18 - - 10
Work from Home +183 17 - - 23
South West +82 12 - - 5
North West +18 10 - - 7
Yorkshire +47 6 - - 3
East of England +55 4 £75,000 - 6
Midlands +44 3 - - 4
Northern Ireland +36 3 - - 3
Scotland +128 2 - - 2
North East +47 2 - -
West Midlands +31 2 - - 2
East Midlands +31 1 - - 2

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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 2 (1.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 16 (12.60%) TrackWise
2 1 (0.79%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.79%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.87%) Veeva
2 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (3.15%) Amazon S3
2 4 (3.15%) AWS
2 4 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (3.15%) Serverless
3 1 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (3.15%) MySQL
1 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
General
1 91 (71.65%) Manufacturing
2 63 (49.61%) Pharmaceutical
3 41 (32.28%) Finance
4 40 (31.50%) Social Skills
5 15 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (11.81%) Law
6 14 (11.02%) Retail
7 9 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Banking
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (42.52%) QA Officer
2 19 (14.96%) Quality Manager
3 18 (14.17%) QA Manager
4 11 (8.66%) QA Specialist
5 8 (6.30%) Senior
6 7 (5.51%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 6 (4.72%) Project Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Process Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Process Manager
9 4 (3.15%) Architect
9 4 (3.15%) PHP Architect
9 4 (3.15%) Software Architect
9 4 (3.15%) Supplier Management Specialist
9 4 (3.15%) Technologist
10 2 (1.57%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (1.57%) Field Engineer
11 1 (0.79%) Auditor
11 1 (0.79%) AWS Architect
11 1 (0.79%) Product Specialist
11 1 (0.79%) Supply Chain Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.15%) Laravel
1 4 (3.15%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.32%) Life Science
2 12 (9.45%) Biopharmaceutical
3 10 (7.87%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.15%) IoT
5 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (55.12%) QMS
2 58 (45.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 53 (41.73%) Quality Management
4 32 (25.20%) Validation
5 30 (23.62%) CAPA
5 30 (23.62%) Internal Audit
6 22 (17.32%) Chemistry
7 19 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (12.60%) Supplier Management
9 14 (11.02%) Biotechnology
9 14 (11.02%) Change Management
10 13 (10.24%) Change Control
11 12 (9.45%) Project Management
12 11 (8.66%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (7.87%) Biochemistry
13 10 (7.87%) Document Management
13 10 (7.87%) Storage Management
13 10 (7.87%) Workflow
14 8 (6.30%) Process Improvement
14 8 (6.30%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.15%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (37.80%) Degree
2 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (88.19%) QA
2 8 (6.30%) GLP
3 5 (3.94%) Good Clinical Practice
4 4 (3.15%) GxP
5 2 (1.57%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (17.32%) SAP
2 7 (5.51%) Google
3 3 (2.36%) Salesforce