Pharmaceutical Jobs

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK

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 cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 279 389
Rank change year-on-year -125 +110 -136
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 352 1,055 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.96% 0.82%
As % of the General category 0.90% 1.68% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 163 362 370
10th Percentile £23,250 £29,100 £40,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,398 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -18.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £79,375 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £86,125 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -13.04% +7.98%

All General Skills
UK

Pharmaceutical falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring common skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 39,328 62,940 62,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 70.26% 57.28% 67.43%
Number of salaries quoted 18,408 40,910 35,115
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £32,276
25th Percentile £37,170 £36,250 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%

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 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Top 17 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 13 June 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 -135 319 £50,000 - 785
UK excluding London -95 246 £37,500 -25.00% 552
Work from Home -37 87 £33,000 -37.14% 382
North of England -37 84 £30,000 -33.33% 163
London -48 77 £95,000 +58.33% 295
South East -37 74 £50,000 +5.26% 192
East of England +22 58 £55,000 +10.00% 80
North West -14 58 £23,500 -57.27% 110
Yorkshire -19 16 £30,000 -25.00% 43
Midlands -22 15 £47,500 -20.83% 56
East Midlands -9 13 £47,500 -7.32% 26
North East +50 10 £53,125 -3.41% 15
South West +48 10 £86,250 +81.58% 32
Scotland +87 2 £62,500 -3.85% 10
West Midlands +17 2 - - 29
Northern Ireland +14 2 - - 19
Wales +37 1 £65,000 +31.13% 9

Pharmaceutical
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 5 (1.42%) WinCC
2 4 (1.14%) CMS
2 4 (1.14%) SAS
3 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.85%) WordPress
4 2 (0.57%) Apache
4 2 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 22 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.28%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.56%) TrackWise
2 7 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.14%) Maximo
4 2 (0.57%) Primavera
4 2 (0.57%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.57%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 28 (7.95%) AWS
2 18 (5.11%) Azure
3 14 (3.98%) SaaS
4 12 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (2.84%) Veeva
6 9 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 8 (2.27%) GitHub
8 6 (1.70%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.42%) GCP
10 4 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.85%) Google Ads
11 3 (0.85%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.85%) Google Data Studio
12 2 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.57%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.57%) Serverless
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.28%) Figma
13 1 (0.28%) Pulumi
13 1 (0.28%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.55%) Ethernet
2 15 (4.26%) Modbus
3 13 (3.69%) MQTT
4 10 (2.84%) DNS
4 10 (2.84%) Firewall
4 10 (2.84%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.84%) VPN
5 9 (2.56%) HTTP
5 9 (2.56%) Network Security
5 9 (2.56%) SMTP
6 7 (1.99%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.42%) Profibus
8 3 (0.85%) VLAN
9 2 (0.57%) LAN
9 2 (0.57%) WAN
9 2 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.28%) Broadband
10 1 (0.28%) DHCP
10 1 (0.28%) MPLS
10 1 (0.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.69%) MySQL
1 13 (3.69%) Relational Database
2 10 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.99%) Electronic Patient Records
4 6 (1.70%) Power BI
4 6 (1.70%) Tableau
5 5 (1.42%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.14%) DB2
6 4 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.14%) SQLite
7 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.28%) KNIME
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.56%) JIRA
2 8 (2.27%) Moq
2 8 (2.27%) SpecFlow
3 4 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) Git
General
1 115 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 104 (29.55%) Manufacturing
3 70 (19.89%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.22%) Law
5 40 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 31 (8.81%) Retail
7 23 (6.53%) Marketing
8 19 (5.40%) Telecoms
9 17 (4.83%) Finance
10 14 (3.98%) Banking
11 13 (3.69%) Automotive
11 13 (3.69%) Publishing
12 12 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (2.56%) Legal
14 6 (1.70%) Advertising
14 6 (1.70%) French Language
14 6 (1.70%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.70%) Public Sector
15 5 (1.42%) Digital Healthcare
16 4 (1.14%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 50 (14.20%) Analyst
1 50 (14.20%) Senior
2 45 (12.78%) Automation Engineer
3 34 (9.66%) IT Support
4 30 (8.52%) IT Analyst
5 28 (7.95%) IT Support Analyst
5 28 (7.95%) Support Analyst
6 22 (6.25%) Lead
7 18 (5.11%) Security Engineer
8 17 (4.83%) Field Engineer
9 16 (4.55%) IT Manager
9 16 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
10 15 (4.26%) Developer
10 15 (4.26%) Field Service Engineer
11 14 (3.98%) 1st Line Support
11 14 (3.98%) 1st Line Support Analyst
11 14 (3.98%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (3.13%) Information Security Engineer
12 11 (3.13%) QA Officer
13 9 (2.56%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.97%) .NET
2 13 (3.69%) FHIR
3 11 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 11 (3.13%) scikit-learn
3 11 (3.13%) TensorFlow
4 10 (2.84%) REST
5 9 (2.56%) Keras
5 9 (2.56%) NumPy
6 8 (2.27%) .NET Core
6 8 (2.27%) .NET Framework
6 8 (2.27%) CSS
6 8 (2.27%) Entity Framework
6 8 (2.27%) OAuth
6 8 (2.27%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.70%) Laravel
7 6 (1.70%) Swagger
8 5 (1.42%) JSON
8 5 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.14%) Django
9 4 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (12.50%) Biopharmaceutical
2 43 (12.22%) Life Science
3 37 (10.51%) SCADA
4 25 (7.10%) Algorithms
5 20 (5.68%) EPoS
5 20 (5.68%) Renewable Energy
6 15 (4.26%) Data Centre
6 15 (4.26%) IoT
6 15 (4.26%) NHS
6 15 (4.26%) Operational Technology
7 13 (3.69%) Industry 4.0
8 12 (3.41%) FMCG
9 10 (2.84%) Management Information System
9 10 (2.84%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.70%) LIMS
10 6 (1.70%) PACS
11 5 (1.42%) Fibre Optics
11 5 (1.42%) iPad
11 5 (1.42%) iPhone
11 5 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.55%) Windows
2 5 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.28%) Linux
4 1 (0.28%) VxWorks
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (15.91%) Validation
3 49 (13.92%) Computer Science
4 45 (12.78%) Cybersecurity
5 44 (12.50%) Analytics
5 44 (12.50%) Biotechnology
5 44 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 38 (10.80%) Project Delivery
6 38 (10.80%) Project Management
7 34 (9.66%) Agile
7 34 (9.66%) Artificial Intelligence
8 33 (9.38%) QMS
8 33 (9.38%) Time Management
9 32 (9.09%) Data Science
10 31 (8.81%) Data Security
11 30 (8.52%) Roadmaps
12 29 (8.24%) CRM
12 29 (8.24%) Logistics
12 29 (8.24%) Mentoring
13 27 (7.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 44 (12.50%) Python
2 23 (6.53%) SQL
3 17 (4.83%) C#
4 13 (3.69%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.56%) TypeScript
6 6 (1.70%) Java
6 6 (1.70%) PHP
7 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.42%) R
8 3 (0.85%) C
9 2 (0.57%) C++
9 2 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.57%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.28%) Ada
10 1 (0.28%) Perl
10 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 151 (42.90%) Degree
2 38 (10.80%) Master's Degree
3 35 (9.94%) HNC
4 28 (7.95%) PhD
5 26 (7.39%) HND
6 23 (6.53%) Security Cleared
7 21 (5.97%) SC Cleared
8 18 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (5.11%) DBS Check
9 16 (4.55%) Chartered Engineer
10 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.42%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.42%) MCP
12 4 (1.14%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.85%) MBA
14 2 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.57%) CISSP
14 2 (0.57%) EnCE
14 2 (0.57%) GCFA
14 2 (0.57%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (13.35%) QA
2 34 (9.66%) GMP
3 25 (7.10%) GxP
4 13 (3.69%) GDPR
5 8 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.27%) NIST
6 7 (1.99%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (1.70%) CDISC
7 6 (1.70%) GLP
8 5 (1.42%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 5 (1.42%) HL7
8 5 (1.42%) SLA
9 4 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.14%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.28%) AICPA
12 1 (0.28%) GRC
12 1 (0.28%) IFRS
12 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (4.55%) Docker
2 12 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.85%) Firmware
5 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (4.26%) Functional Safety
2 2 (0.57%) EnCase
2 2 (0.57%) FTK
2 2 (0.57%) RSA Security Analytics
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) SCCM
3 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.52%) SAP
3 27 (7.67%) Google
4 20 (5.68%) Siemens
5 18 (5.11%) AVEVA
5 18 (5.11%) Rockwell
6 12 (3.41%) VMware
7 11 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.14%) IBM
8 4 (1.14%) Splunk
9 3 (0.85%) Minitab
10 2 (0.57%) Allen-Bradley
10 2 (0.57%) Cisco
10 2 (0.57%) FireEye
10 2 (0.57%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.57%) Instagram
10 2 (0.57%) NetWitness
10 2 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.57%) Twitter
11 1 (0.28%) Sparx