Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 15 April 2021

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 15 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK
6 months to
15 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 272 563 607
Rank change year-on-year +291 +44 +50
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 943 446 624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the General category 2.84% 0.99% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 255 289 400
10th Percentile £30,950 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +2.86%

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 33,245 45,199 60,000
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 39.75% 40.21% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 24,022 34,723 45,847
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,694 £57,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.52% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% -

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 15 April 2021.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK

Pharmaceutical
Top 16 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 15 April 2021. 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 +228 699 £55,000 +20.64% 262
UK excluding London +209 500 £50,000 +25.00% 214
South East +174 247 £60,000 +50.00% 73
Work from Home +66 233 £51,250 +5.67% 49
London +150 199 £70,000 +12.00% 68
East of England +100 112 £46,250 +8.82% 35
North of England +54 52 £36,000 -12.73% 48
North West +41 38 £40,000 -13.51% 29
Midlands +25 32 £41,000 +9.33% 22
South West +25 24 £42,500 +30.77% 15
Scotland +21 21 £54,000 +20.00% 13
East Midlands +22 20 £38,750 +3.33% 12
Yorkshire +15 13 £35,000 -9.68% 16
Wales - 12 £31,000 - 8
West Midlands +23 11 £44,500 +13.38% 10
North East +20 1 - - 3

For the 6 months to 15 April 2021, 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.

1 288 (30.54%) Degree
2 254 (26.94%) Project Management
3 214 (22.69%) Life Science
4 177 (18.77%) SAS
5 175 (18.56%) Management Information System
5 175 (18.56%) Agile Software Development
6 174 (18.45%) Manufacturing
7 161 (17.07%) Computer Science
8 155 (16.44%) Data Management
9 141 (14.95%) Matrix Organization
10 137 (14.53%) Law
11 136 (14.42%) Validation
12 134 (14.21%) Information Security
12 134 (14.21%) CDISC
13 133 (14.10%) Legal
14 131 (13.89%) GDPR
15 127 (13.47%) Data Protection
16 125 (13.26%) Analytics
17 124 (13.15%) Statistics
18 115 (12.20%) Mathematics
19 94 (9.97%) Mentoring
20 93 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
21 90 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
22 87 (9.23%) Finance
23 85 (9.01%) Microsoft
23 85 (9.01%) Azure
24 83 (8.80%) Marketing
25 81 (8.59%) Biotechnology
26 72 (7.64%) QA
27 68 (7.21%) 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
1 177 (18.77%) SAS
2 17 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.38%) CMS
4 6 (0.64%) MS Exchange
4 6 (0.64%) WordPress
5 5 (0.53%) Confluence
5 5 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.32%) Drupal
6 3 (0.32%) IIS
7 2 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
7 2 (0.21%) WinCC
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) Liferay
8 1 (0.11%) Site Server
Applications
1 41 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.42%) SPSS
7 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 29 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.74%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.53%) SAP MM
3 5 (0.53%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.32%) Primavera
4 3 (0.32%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 3 (0.32%) SAP PS
5 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Clinical
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.21%) SAP PP
5 2 (0.21%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.11%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.11%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 85 (9.01%) Azure
2 41 (4.35%) AWS
3 28 (2.97%) SaaS
4 20 (2.12%) Veeva
5 19 (2.01%) Power Platform
6 14 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (1.27%) GCP
8 11 (1.17%) PaaS
9 9 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (0.95%) BrowserStack
10 6 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (0.64%) Google Analytics
11 5 (0.53%) Smartsheet
12 3 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.32%) Azure Stack
12 3 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.21%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.21%) IaaS
14 1 (0.11%) GitHub
14 1 (0.11%) Trello
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.27%) Firewall
2 8 (0.85%) DNS
2 8 (0.85%) VPN
3 7 (0.74%) DHCP
4 6 (0.64%) FTP
5 5 (0.53%) LAN
6 4 (0.42%) WAN
7 3 (0.32%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.32%) Intranet
7 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.32%) Unified Communications
8 2 (0.21%) Internet
9 1 (0.11%) IPsec
9 1 (0.11%) Network Security
9 1 (0.11%) SAN
9 1 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (2.65%) Base SAS
2 23 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 19 (2.01%) Power BI
4 18 (1.91%) MySQL
5 17 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.70%) Tableau
7 13 (1.38%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
8 12 (1.27%) Spotfire
9 11 (1.17%) Big Data
10 8 (0.85%) GIS
11 6 (0.64%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.32%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.32%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.21%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.21%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 21 (2.23%) JIRA
2 16 (1.70%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.48%) Git (software)
4 11 (1.17%) Selenium
5 10 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.95%) Appium
6 9 (0.95%) Postman
7 8 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (0.53%) TestRail
9 4 (0.42%) gulp
9 4 (0.42%) Maven
9 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.32%) Axure RP
10 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.32%) JUnit
11 2 (0.21%) Dreamweaver
11 2 (0.21%) Gradle
11 2 (0.21%) Mercurial
11 2 (0.21%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 174 (18.45%) Manufacturing
2 137 (14.53%) Law
3 133 (14.10%) Legal
4 87 (9.23%) Finance
5 83 (8.80%) Marketing
6 40 (4.24%) Retail
7 19 (2.01%) Games
8 12 (1.27%) Advertising
8 12 (1.27%) German Language
9 11 (1.17%) Publishing
10 10 (1.06%) Czech Language
11 9 (0.95%) Automotive
11 9 (0.95%) Italian Language
11 9 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.74%) French Language
12 7 (0.74%) Social Science
13 6 (0.64%) Public Sector
14 4 (0.42%) Spanish Language
15 3 (0.32%) Banking
15 3 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 148 (15.69%) Programmer
2 127 (13.47%) Administrator
3 114 (12.09%) Data Administrator
4 105 (11.13%) Statistical Programmer
5 99 (10.50%) Data Manager
6 79 (8.38%) Analyst
7 72 (7.64%) Senior Programmer
8 61 (6.47%) Developer
9 54 (5.73%) Senior Statistical Programmer
10 42 (4.45%) Consultant
11 37 (3.92%) Senior Manager
12 35 (3.71%) Architect
13 34 (3.61%) Software Engineer
14 32 (3.39%) Project Manager
15 31 (3.29%) SAS Programmer
16 21 (2.23%) Security Administrator
17 20 (2.12%) Business Analyst
18 19 (2.01%) Systems Analyst
19 17 (1.80%) Solutions Architect
20 16 (1.70%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.88%) .NET
2 41 (4.35%) HTML
3 37 (3.92%) CSS
4 32 (3.39%) XML
5 19 (2.01%) React
6 15 (1.59%) AngularJS
7 14 (1.48%) Hibernate
8 12 (1.27%) Spring
8 12 (1.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 11 (1.17%) HTML5
10 10 (1.06%) Node.js
11 9 (0.95%) Blazor
11 9 (0.95%) RESTful
12 8 (0.85%) Laravel
12 8 (0.85%) Symfony
13 7 (0.74%) .NET Core
14 6 (0.64%) ASP.NET
14 6 (0.64%) Spring Boot
14 6 (0.64%) Web Services
15 5 (0.53%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 214 (22.69%) Life Science
2 175 (18.56%) Management Information System
3 93 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (8.59%) Biotechnology
5 37 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.33%) Social Media
7 19 (2.01%) FMCG
7 19 (2.01%) Pharmacovigilance
8 18 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.59%) User Experience
11 14 (1.48%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.38%) NHS
13 12 (1.27%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.06%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.06%) SCADA
15 6 (0.64%) Animation
15 6 (0.64%) Digital Media
16 5 (0.53%) LIMS
16 5 (0.53%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.29%) Windows
2 17 (1.80%) Android
2 17 (1.80%) Apple iOS
3 15 (1.59%) Linux
4 9 (0.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (26.94%) Project Management
2 175 (18.56%) Agile Software Development
3 161 (17.07%) Computer Science
4 155 (16.44%) Data Management
5 141 (14.95%) Matrix Organization
6 136 (14.42%) Validation
7 134 (14.21%) Information Security
8 127 (13.47%) Data Protection
9 125 (13.26%) Analytics
10 124 (13.15%) Statistics
11 115 (12.20%) Mathematics
12 94 (9.97%) Mentoring
13 90 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
14 60 (6.36%) Software Engineering
15 59 (6.26%) Data Analysis
16 57 (6.04%) Stakeholder Management
17 56 (5.94%) Biostatistics
18 55 (5.83%) Clinical Data Management
19 53 (5.62%) Data Science
19 53 (5.62%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (7.21%) JavaScript
2 54 (5.73%) R
3 48 (5.09%) Python
4 46 (4.88%) Java
4 46 (4.88%) SQL
5 42 (4.45%) C#
6 28 (2.97%) SAS Macro
7 18 (1.91%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.48%) PHP
9 12 (1.27%) C
10 10 (1.06%) ES6
11 6 (0.64%) PL/1
12 5 (0.53%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.42%) Go
14 3 (0.32%) Apex Code
14 3 (0.32%) Apple Swift
14 3 (0.32%) Bash Shell
14 3 (0.32%) Clojure
14 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.32%) ML
Qualifications
1 288 (30.54%) Degree
2 41 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 22 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
4 22 (2.33%) PhD
5 12 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 9 (0.95%) PMP
7 8 (0.85%) SC Cleared
7 8 (0.85%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 4 (0.42%) HND
10 3 (0.32%) APMP
10 3 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.21%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.11%) CCNA
12 1 (0.11%) CCNP
12 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.11%) CISSP
12 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (14.21%) CDISC
2 131 (13.89%) GDPR
3 72 (7.64%) QA
4 47 (4.98%) Good Clinical Practice
5 20 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.12%) GMP
6 16 (1.70%) GxP
7 14 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 12 (1.27%) ISO 9001
9 9 (0.95%) GAMP
10 8 (0.85%) GLP
11 3 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.21%) PMO
12 2 (0.21%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) HL7
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 18 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.17%) Docker
3 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (1.17%) Terraform
2 8 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (0.85%) Puppet
3 6 (0.64%) Ansible
3 6 (0.64%) Opscode Chef
4 3 (0.32%) SCCM
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 85 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 57 (6.04%) SAP
3 18 (1.91%) Facebook
3 18 (1.91%) Oracle
4 13 (1.38%) Google
5 12 (1.27%) Salesforce.com
6 11 (1.17%) Instagram
7 8 (0.85%) Twitter
8 7 (0.74%) Apple
9 6 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (0.64%) IBM
10 5 (0.53%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.53%) Citrix
11 4 (0.42%) Dell
11 4 (0.42%) Informatica
11 4 (0.42%) Siemens
11 4 (0.42%) VMware
12 3 (0.32%) EMC
12 3 (0.32%) McAfee
12 3 (0.32%) NetApp
294 Pharmaceutical job vacancies Nationwide