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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 853 947 1069
Rank change year-on-year +94 +122 -188
Permanent jobs citing GxP 37 30 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.030% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.27% 0.16% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 24
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% -12.62%
75th Percentile £44,688 £190,000 £54,250
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% +1.12%

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 13,596 18,747 27,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.61% 18.90% 17.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,193 8,688 13,219
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% +3.77%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,626
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.98% +0.27%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +98 36 £37,500 -68.75% 27
UK excluding London -16 34 £37,500 -28.57% 19
South East +7 20 - - 5
Work from Home +89 18 £60,000 - 10
North of England +55 7 £37,500 - 3
North West - 7 £37,500 - 3
East of England +9 6 - - 8
London +109 2 - - 8
South West - 1 £70,216 - 1

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 13 (35.14%) Documentum
Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (35.14%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.11%) Azure
2 1 (2.70%) AWS
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) NGFW
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
General
1 35 (94.59%) Pharmaceutical
2 29 (78.38%) Social Skills
3 16 (43.24%) Manufacturing
4 13 (35.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) German Language
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) IT Manager
1 14 (37.84%) QA Manager
1 14 (37.84%) Systems Manager
2 13 (35.14%) Data Integrity Manager
3 8 (21.62%) Project Manager
4 6 (16.22%) Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Business Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) ERP Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) ERP Business Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Operations Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Operations Business Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Architecture Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Data Steward
5 1 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Principal Security Architect
5 1 (2.70%) QA Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) ATL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Life Science
1 14 (37.84%) LIMS
2 13 (35.14%) Biopharmaceutical
3 7 (18.92%) Virtual Team
4 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (2.70%) IoT
6 1 (2.70%) PMI
6 1 (2.70%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.70%) Robotics
6 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
1 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Validation
2 15 (40.54%) CAPA
2 15 (40.54%) Change Control
2 15 (40.54%) QMS
3 13 (35.14%) Biotechnology
3 13 (35.14%) Impact Assessments
3 13 (35.14%) Project Management
4 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.92%) Project Delivery
6 6 (16.22%) ERP
6 6 (16.22%) Neuroscience
6 6 (16.22%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (16.22%) Tech Ops
7 5 (13.51%) Line Management
7 5 (13.51%) Regulatory Compliance
8 4 (10.81%) Chemistry
8 4 (10.81%) PLM
9 2 (5.41%) Agile
9 2 (5.41%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) CCIE
2 2 (5.41%) CCNP
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.41%) CISM
2 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
3 1 (2.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (70.27%) QA
2 20 (54.05%) Good Clinical Practice
3 16 (43.24%) GMP
4 6 (16.22%) GLP
4 6 (16.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.70%) GDPR
5 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (2.70%) DatAdvantage
1 1 (2.70%) QRadar
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
1 1 (2.70%) Stealthwatch
1 1 (2.70%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
1 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
1 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) SAP
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Zscaler
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco
4 1 (2.70%) NCR
4 1 (2.70%) Qualys
4 1 (2.70%) Rockwell
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Siemens
4 1 (2.70%) Symantec
4 1 (2.70%) Varonis
4 1 (2.70%) VMware