Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 24 October 2020

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 24 October 2020 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK
6 months to
24 Oct 2020		 Same period 2019 Same period 2018
Rank 461 581 646
Rank change year-on-year +120 +65 -62
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 233 578 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.42% 0.34%
As % of the General category 1.27% 1.07% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 185 466 414
Median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £31,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -5.56%

Pharmaceutical is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

All General Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,341 53,836 70,470
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.56% 39.43% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14,600 40,531 54,012
Median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median salary % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £29,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +2.27%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 24 October 2020.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the UK over the 6 months to 24 October 2020. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +102 197 £60,000 +14.29% 199
UK excluding London +157 136 £49,500 +4.21% 164
London +112 83 £71,250 +18.75% 50
South East +152 48 £56,250 +12.50% 43
East of England +97 20 £45,000 -10.00% 31
North of England +133 17 £45,500 -9.00% 41
South West +124 17 £47,500 +35.71% 15
Northern Ireland - 15 £45,000 -
North West +100 14 £42,500 -19.05% 24
Scotland +97 14 £40,000 +8.79% 11
Work from Home -3 14 £52,500 -4.55% 37
Midlands +106 5 £75,000 +102.70% 18
East Midlands +90 5 £75,000 +66.67% 12
North East - 3 £47,500 - 7

For the 6 months to 24 October 2020, IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Pharmaceutical.

1 69 (29.61%) Agile Software Development
2 50 (21.46%) Analytics
3 34 (14.59%) AWS
4 33 (14.16%) Big Data
5 30 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (12.88%) Microsoft
6 29 (12.45%) Manufacturing
7 26 (11.16%) SQL
8 25 (10.73%) Software Engineering
9 24 (10.30%) Python
10 22 (9.44%) Finance
10 22 (9.44%) Degree
10 22 (9.44%) Data Science
11 21 (9.01%) Android
11 21 (9.01%) Apple iOS
11 21 (9.01%) SAP
11 21 (9.01%) .NET
12 20 (8.58%) Artificial Intelligence
13 19 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.15%) SaaS
14 18 (7.73%) Visualisation
14 18 (7.73%) Life Science
14 18 (7.73%) Windows
15 17 (7.30%) Scrum
15 17 (7.30%) Validation
15 17 (7.30%) QA
15 17 (7.30%) Test Automation
15 17 (7.30%) Office 365
16 16 (6.87%) Azure
16 16 (6.87%) JavaScript

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.15%) Confluence
3 4 (1.72%) CMS
4 3 (1.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.86%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.86%) Figma
2 2 (0.86%) InVision
2 2 (0.86%) Marvel
2 2 (0.86%) Photoshop
2 2 (0.86%) Sketch
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.43%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.59%) AWS
2 19 (8.15%) SaaS
3 17 (7.30%) Office 365
4 16 (6.87%) Azure
5 15 (6.44%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.72%) PaaS
7 8 (3.43%) BrowserStack
7 8 (3.43%) Firebase
8 6 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.29%) IaaS
10 3 (1.29%) Serverless
11 2 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.86%) Azure Active Directory
11 2 (0.86%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.72%) Firewall
2 6 (2.58%) Network Security
3 5 (2.15%) DNS
4 4 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.29%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (1.29%) Unified Communications
5 3 (1.29%) VPN
5 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.86%) DHCP
6 2 (0.86%) HTTP
6 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.86%) VoIP
7 1 (0.43%) Internet
7 1 (0.43%) Intranet
7 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.43%) SCCP
7 1 (0.43%) Skype
7 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.16%) Big Data
2 15 (6.44%) Power BI
3 10 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.00%) Apache Hive
5 7 (3.00%) Tableau
6 6 (2.58%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.15%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.29%) Mixpanel
9 3 (1.29%) QlikView
10 2 (0.86%) HBase
10 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.86%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 15 (6.44%) Jenkins
2 14 (6.01%) JIRA
3 10 (4.29%) Appium
3 10 (4.29%) Selenium
4 9 (3.86%) Git (software)
5 8 (3.43%) Postman
6 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.86%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.43%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.43%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.43%) ERwin
7 1 (0.43%) Gradle
7 1 (0.43%) RSpec
7 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.43%) Subversion
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 29 (12.45%) Manufacturing
2 22 (9.44%) Finance
3 10 (4.29%) Marketing
3 10 (4.29%) Retail
4 4 (1.72%) Law
4 4 (1.72%) Legal
4 4 (1.72%) Telecoms
5 2 (0.86%) Advertising
5 2 (0.86%) Automotive
5 2 (0.86%) Banking
6 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.43%) Back Office
6 1 (0.43%) Billing
6 1 (0.43%) Czech Language
6 1 (0.43%) French Language
6 1 (0.43%) German Language
6 1 (0.43%) Italian Language
6 1 (0.43%) Publishing
6 1 (0.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (12.88%) Developer
2 28 (12.02%) Analyst
3 23 (9.87%) Architect
4 21 (9.01%) Consultant
5 15 (6.44%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.15%) Business Analyst
7 11 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.29%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.86%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.43%) Automation Tester
10 8 (3.43%) IT Analyst
10 8 (3.43%) Senior Consultant
10 8 (3.43%) Software Tester
10 8 (3.43%) Tester
11 7 (3.00%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.00%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.00%) Security Analyst
11 7 (3.00%) Security Consultant
11 7 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.58%) Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.01%) .NET
2 12 (5.15%) JSON
3 11 (4.72%) HTML
4 10 (4.29%) Web Services
5 8 (3.43%) CSS
5 8 (3.43%) XML
6 6 (2.58%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.58%) React
6 6 (2.58%) RESTful
7 5 (2.15%) Kafka
7 5 (2.15%) Vue.js
8 4 (1.72%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.72%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (1.72%) Natural Language Processing
9 3 (1.29%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.29%) Django
9 3 (1.29%) Node.js
9 3 (1.29%) REST
9 3 (1.29%) TensorFlow
10 2 (0.86%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.73%) Life Science
2 15 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.58%) Mobile App
4 12 (5.15%) User Experience
5 11 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (4.29%) Biotechnology
7 8 (3.43%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.43%) NHS
7 8 (3.43%) SCADA
8 4 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.72%) Social Media
9 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.29%) Industry 4.0
9 3 (1.29%) Robotics
10 2 (0.86%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
10 2 (0.86%) FMCG
10 2 (0.86%) iSeries
10 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.01%) Android
1 21 (9.01%) Apple iOS
2 18 (7.73%) Windows
3 10 (4.29%) Linux
4 7 (3.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.72%) Unix
6 2 (0.86%) SUSE
6 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.61%) Agile Software Development
2 50 (21.46%) Analytics
3 30 (12.88%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (10.73%) Software Engineering
5 22 (9.44%) Data Science
6 20 (8.58%) Artificial Intelligence
7 19 (8.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (7.73%) Visualisation
9 17 (7.30%) Scrum
9 17 (7.30%) Test Automation
9 17 (7.30%) Validation
10 15 (6.44%) Mentoring
10 15 (6.44%) Project Management
11 14 (6.01%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (6.01%) Migration
12 13 (5.58%) ERP
12 13 (5.58%) ETL
12 13 (5.58%) Information Security
12 13 (5.58%) IT Strategy
13 12 (5.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.16%) SQL
2 24 (10.30%) Python
3 16 (6.87%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.58%) Java
5 12 (5.15%) C#
5 12 (5.15%) Kotlin
6 11 (4.72%) Apple Swift
7 8 (3.43%) R
8 7 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.15%) Ruby
10 3 (1.29%) C++
10 3 (1.29%) Scala
10 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.86%) C
11 2 (0.86%) ES6
11 2 (0.86%) Go
11 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.86%) VBScript
12 1 (0.43%) Bash Shell
12 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (9.44%) Degree
2 5 (2.15%) CISSP
3 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.29%) CISM
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (0.86%) CCNA
4 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.86%) MCSA
4 2 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.43%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.43%) CCSP
5 1 (0.43%) CISA
5 1 (0.43%) MCTS
5 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.43%) PhD
5 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.43%) PMP
5 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.30%) QA
2 9 (3.86%) GMP
3 8 (3.43%) GAMP
4 7 (3.00%) GxP
5 6 (2.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.72%) GDPR
8 3 (1.29%) Good Clinical Practice
8 3 (1.29%) ISO 13485
8 3 (1.29%) SLA
9 2 (0.86%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.43%) COBIT
10 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.43%) GLP
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.43%) NIST
10 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (5.15%) Docker
2 9 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (4.29%) Terraform
2 6 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.15%) Ansible
3 5 (2.15%) Puppet
3 5 (2.15%) SCCM
4 3 (1.29%) Opscode Chef
5 1 (0.43%) Kibana
5 1 (0.43%) MaaS360
5 1 (0.43%) Mesos
5 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.01%) SAP
3 11 (4.72%) Google
4 8 (3.43%) Cisco
4 8 (3.43%) VMware
5 6 (2.58%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.15%) Citrix
6 5 (2.15%) Dell
6 5 (2.15%) Oracle
7 3 (1.29%) Adobe
7 3 (1.29%) Allen-Bradley
7 3 (1.29%) EMC
7 3 (1.29%) Hortonworks
7 3 (1.29%) IBM
7 3 (1.29%) McAfee
7 3 (1.29%) Meraki
7 3 (1.29%) Rockwell
7 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.29%) Siemens
7 3 (1.29%) Xamarin
227 Pharmaceutical job vacancies Nationwide