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 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 714 959 957
Rank change year-on-year +245 -2 -221
Permanent jobs citing GxP 13 131 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.16% 0.59% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 30
10th Percentile £49,875 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,250 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +21.62% +8.82%
75th Percentile £69,063 £61,563 £56,938
90th Percentile £79,750 £87,250 £59,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year +6.52% +24.32% +8.82%

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 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%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for GxP in the UK

GxP
Top 8 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 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 +220 13 £62,500 +11.11% 37
UK excluding London +173 11 £61,250 +6.52% 26
Work from Home +207 5 - - 2
Midlands +124 5 - - 1
East of England +116 5 £62,500 +8.70% 9
East Midlands +52 5 - -
London +253 2 £80,000 +45.45% 12
South East +125 1 £55,000 - 4

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (46.15%) Retail
4 5 (38.46%) Agrochemical
4 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
5 4 (30.77%) Manufacturing
6 1 (7.69%) Finance
6 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) IT Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Support
2 4 (30.77%) Applications Support Specialist
2 4 (30.77%) Support Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Velocity
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Life Science
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Project Management
2 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
4 5 (38.46%) Biotechnology
4 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
4 5 (38.46%) Line Management
4 5 (38.46%) Supplier Management
4 5 (38.46%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (30.77%) Customer Service
5 4 (30.77%) Process Management
5 4 (30.77%) Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Product Backlog
6 2 (15.38%) Scrum
7 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
7 1 (7.69%) Information Security
7 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CCNP
3 1 (7.69%) CISA
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) CISSP
3 1 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) MCSA
3 1 (7.69%) MCSE
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) ISO 9001
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) GLP
2 1 (7.69%) GMP
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) DatAdvantage
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) Varonis
3 1 (7.69%) VMware