Pharmaceutical Job Trends in Yorkshire

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in permanent job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 96 141
Rank change year-on-year -32 +45 +13
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 32 57 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.96% 1.83% 1.23%
As % of the General category 1.62% 2.67% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 16
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,500 £30,625
25th Percentile £31,625 £42,188 £32,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +25.00% +45.45%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - - £85,847
England median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -11.11%

All General Skills
Yorkshire

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 general skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 1,978 2,133 2,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 59.04% 68.63% 64.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,087 735 1,656
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,332 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £69,041
90th Percentile £82,900 £81,250 £84,964
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.00%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Pharmaceutical relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Pharmaceutical job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Pharmaceutical
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Pharmaceutical.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Pharmaceutical in Yorkshire

Pharmaceutical
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
West Yorkshire -16 31 £60,000 +20.00% 12
South Yorkshire -12 1 - - 7
Pharmaceutical
England

Pharmaceutical
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) SaaS
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (3.13%) AWS
2 1 (3.13%) Pulumi
2 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Ethernet
1 2 (6.25%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (3.13%) MySQL
General
1 8 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 8 (25.00%) Retail
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (9.38%) Law
2 3 (9.38%) Legal
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Account Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Graduate
2 8 (25.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Logistics Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Senior
2 8 (25.00%) Senior Account Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 8 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering Graduate
3 3 (9.38%) Customer Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Control Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Graduate Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) CSS
1 1 (3.13%) HTML
1 1 (3.13%) NestJS
1 1 (3.13%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.25%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (6.25%) SCADA
3 1 (3.13%) Hackathon
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 8 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 8 (25.00%) Logistics
1 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Mathematics
3 3 (9.38%) Data Protection
3 3 (9.38%) Software Licensing
4 2 (6.25%) Customer Service
4 2 (6.25%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.13%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (3.13%) Case Management
5 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (3.13%) QMS
5 1 (3.13%) Quality Management
5 1 (3.13%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) C
2 8 (25.00%) C++
2 8 (25.00%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Python
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) Perl
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Degree
2 8 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) EU AI Act
1 3 (9.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) AVEVA
1 2 (6.25%) Rockwell
1 2 (6.25%) Siemens