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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 615 937
Rank change year-on-year +22 +322 +125
Permanent jobs citing GMP 113 296 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.30% 0.044%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.21% 2.17% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 33 39 3
10th Percentile - £35,000 £43,271
25th Percentile - £35,625 £44,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £55,000 £46,921
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +17.22% -32.97%
75th Percentile £43,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £45,000 - £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £52,500 £45,960
% change year-on-year +42.86% +14.23% -34.34%

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 9,363 13,636 19,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 13.74% 18.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,802 9,277 8,866
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £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% +5.26%

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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 11 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 11 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 -3 108 £27,500 -54.17% 54
UK excluding London -5 57 £75,000 +42.86% 45
London +130 56 £27,500 -54.17% 13
South East +47 19 - - 14
Work from Home +143 17 - - 29
North of England +2 14 - - 8
South West +77 12 - - 2
Yorkshire +33 6 - - 2
North West -20 6 - - 6
East of England +38 4 £75,000 - 11
Northern Ireland +40 3 - - 4
Midlands +25 3 - - 5
Scotland +116 2 - - 3
North East +46 2 - -
West Midlands +39 2 - - 3
East Midlands +25 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 (1.77%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 12 (10.62%) TrackWise
2 1 (0.88%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.88%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.85%) Veeva
2 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (3.54%) Amazon S3
2 4 (3.54%) AWS
2 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (3.54%) Serverless
3 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (3.54%) MySQL
1 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
General
1 78 (69.03%) Manufacturing
2 56 (49.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 41 (36.28%) Finance
4 34 (30.09%) Social Skills
5 15 (13.27%) Law
6 14 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (12.39%) Retail
7 8 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.65%) Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (44.25%) QA Officer
2 19 (16.81%) Quality Manager
3 18 (15.93%) QA Manager
4 11 (9.73%) QA Specialist
5 7 (6.19%) Senior
5 7 (6.19%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 4 (3.54%) Architect
6 4 (3.54%) PHP Architect
6 4 (3.54%) Process Engineer
6 4 (3.54%) Process Manager
6 4 (3.54%) Project Engineer
6 4 (3.54%) Software Architect
6 4 (3.54%) Supplier Management Specialist
7 2 (1.77%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (1.77%) Field Engineer
8 1 (0.88%) Administrator
8 1 (0.88%) Auditor
8 1 (0.88%) Supply Chain Manager
8 1 (0.88%) Technical Administrator
8 1 (0.88%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.54%) Laravel
1 4 (3.54%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.39%) Life Science
2 11 (9.73%) Biopharmaceutical
3 10 (8.85%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.54%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.54%) IoT
5 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.41%) QMS
2 51 (45.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (43.36%) Quality Management
4 30 (26.55%) CAPA
4 30 (26.55%) Validation
5 23 (20.35%) Internal Audit
6 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.04%) Chemistry
8 16 (14.16%) Supplier Management
9 13 (11.50%) Change Management
10 12 (10.62%) Change Control
11 11 (9.73%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (8.85%) Biochemistry
12 10 (8.85%) Biotechnology
12 10 (8.85%) Project Management
12 10 (8.85%) Storage Management
12 10 (8.85%) Workflow
13 8 (7.08%) Process Improvement
13 8 (7.08%) Regulatory Compliance
14 6 (5.31%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.54%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (36.28%) Degree
2 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (88.50%) QA
2 8 (7.08%) GLP
3 4 (3.54%) GxP
4 2 (1.77%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.88%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (3.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (17.70%) SAP
2 7 (6.19%) Google
3 3 (2.65%) Salesforce