GxP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GxP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GxP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 864 919 1060
Rank change year-on-year +55 +141 -194
Permanent jobs citing GxP 32 51 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.049% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.24% 0.25% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 23
10th Percentile - £47,000 £22,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £120,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -68.75% +166.67% +1.12%
75th Percentile £44,688 £190,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £65,552 - £58,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% +20.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GxP 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 13,490 20,156 25,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.76% 19.26% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,233 9,268 13,209
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

GxP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GxP in the UK

GxP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for GxP in the UK

GxP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GxP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for GxP in the UK

GxP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GxP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +96 31 £37,500 -68.75% 28
UK excluding London +2 30 £37,500 -28.57% 20
South East +14 16 - - 8
Work from Home +99 14 £60,000 - 12
North of England +52 7 £37,500 - 4
North West - 7 £37,500 - 4
East of England +16 6 - - 4
London +130 1 - - 8
South West - 1 £70,216 -

GxP
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 10 (31.25%) Documentum
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (31.25%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.13%) DHCP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
General
1 31 (96.88%) Pharmaceutical
2 24 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (37.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) German Language
4 1 (3.13%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) IT Manager
1 11 (34.38%) QA Manager
1 11 (34.38%) Systems Manager
2 10 (31.25%) Data Integrity Manager
3 8 (25.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Business Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) ERP Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) ERP Business Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Operations Analyst
5 5 (15.63%) Operations Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Architecture Manager
6 1 (3.13%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Operations Support Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Biopharmaceutical
2 11 (34.38%) Life Science
2 11 (34.38%) LIMS
3 6 (18.75%) Virtual Team
4 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.13%) PMI
5 1 (3.13%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.13%) Robotics
5 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Validation
2 12 (37.50%) CAPA
2 12 (37.50%) Change Control
2 12 (37.50%) Project Management
2 12 (37.50%) QMS
3 10 (31.25%) Biotechnology
3 10 (31.25%) Impact Assessments
4 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) ERP
6 5 (15.63%) Line Management
6 5 (15.63%) Neuroscience
6 5 (15.63%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (15.63%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (15.63%) Tech Ops
7 4 (12.50%) Chemistry
7 4 (12.50%) PLM
8 2 (6.25%) Quality Management
9 1 (3.13%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) CCIE
2 1 (3.13%) CCNP
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.13%) CISM
2 1 (3.13%) CISSP
2 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (68.75%) QA
2 17 (53.13%) Good Clinical Practice
3 13 (40.63%) GMP
4 6 (18.75%) GLP
5 5 (15.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (3.13%) GDPR
6 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.13%) DatAdvantage
1 1 (3.13%) QRadar
1 1 (3.13%) SCCM
1 1 (3.13%) Stealthwatch
1 1 (3.13%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
1 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
1 1 (3.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) SAP
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco
3 1 (3.13%) NCR
3 1 (3.13%) Qualys
3 1 (3.13%) Rockwell
3 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.13%) Siemens
3 1 (3.13%) Symantec
3 1 (3.13%) Varonis
3 1 (3.13%) VMware
3 1 (3.13%) Zscaler