Pharmaceutical Contracts in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical (Pharma)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pharmaceutical in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 268 327
Rank change year-on-year +79 +59 -37
Contract jobs citing Pharmaceutical 221 181 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.08% 0.77% 0.62%
As % of the General category 1.99% 1.37% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 123 130
10th Percentile £363 £254 £269
25th Percentile £405 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £575
90th Percentile £669 £685 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 13
10th Percentile £17.72 £12.96 £24.85
25th Percentile £20.75 £14.41 £32.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.61 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.84% -41.62% +15.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.44 £49.50
90th Percentile £68.02 £57.23 -
UK median hourly rate £33.83 £42.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -19.45% -14.29% +8.89%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,126 13,178 16,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.32% 56.40% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 8,992 11,677
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 757 1,033
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.88%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.74 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +54.55% -2.22%

Pharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Pharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Pharmaceutical in the UK excluding London

Pharmaceutical
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pharmaceutical within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +72 98 £510 +6.25% 191
East of England +32 97 £514 +14.17% 110
North West +61 88 £510 +13.33% 112
South East -9 27 £530 +17.78% 140
South West +21 10 - - 76
Yorkshire +12 8 £550 - 63
Midlands +29 5 £338 -28.95% 93
West Midlands +16 5 £338 -28.95% 46
Scotland +42 2 £400 - 34
Pharmaceutical
UK

Pharmaceutical
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (3.17%) SAS
2 6 (2.71%) Confluence
2 6 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.26%) Apache
3 5 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.90%) Sketch
5 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 44 (19.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.71%) SAP MDG
3 4 (1.81%) TrackWise
4 3 (1.36%) SAP BPC
4 3 (1.36%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.36%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.90%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.45%) Avolution ABACUS
6 1 (0.45%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.45%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.45%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.50%) Power Platform
2 13 (5.88%) Snowflake
3 12 (5.43%) Collibra
4 10 (4.52%) Azure
5 9 (4.07%) AWS
6 7 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.71%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.26%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (2.26%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.26%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 5 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (2.26%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.26%) Serverless
9 4 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.81%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.81%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.26%) FTP
2 3 (1.36%) LAN
2 3 (1.36%) WAN
3 2 (0.90%) MQTT
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
4 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.50%) Power BI
2 15 (6.79%) Data Lake
3 11 (4.98%) Metadata
4 7 (3.17%) Big Data
4 7 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.17%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.71%) Ataccama
5 6 (2.71%) Data Mining
5 6 (2.71%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (2.71%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.26%) EDMS
7 3 (1.36%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.90%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.90%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.45%) Data Hub
9 1 (0.45%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (9.50%) JIRA
2 11 (4.98%) Git
3 6 (2.71%) Eclipse
3 6 (2.71%) PyCharm
3 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.45%) LabVIEW
General
1 65 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.17%) Manufacturing
3 35 (15.84%) Finance
4 24 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.79%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.62%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.17%) Banking
8 7 (3.17%) Electronics
9 6 (2.71%) Marketing
10 4 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.90%) Publishing
13 1 (0.45%) Advertising
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.45%) German Language
Job Titles
1 62 (28.05%) Analyst
2 30 (13.57%) Business Analyst
3 27 (12.22%) Project Manager
4 25 (11.31%) Data Analyst
5 24 (10.86%) Senior
6 21 (9.50%) Lead
7 17 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
8 16 (7.24%) Consultant
8 16 (7.24%) Data Manager
9 11 (4.98%) Data Governance Analyst
9 11 (4.98%) Data Governance Manager
9 11 (4.98%) Governance Manager
10 10 (4.52%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (4.07%) Developer
11 9 (4.07%) QA Specialist
12 8 (3.62%) Data Quality Analyst
12 8 (3.62%) QA Analyst
12 8 (3.62%) Quality Analyst
12 8 (3.62%) SAP Analyst
13 7 (3.17%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.17%) React
2 6 (2.71%) XML
3 5 (2.26%) JSON
4 3 (1.36%) PySpark
5 2 (0.90%) CSS
5 2 (0.90%) HTML
6 1 (0.45%) IDoc
6 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.84%) Life Science
2 18 (8.14%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.62%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.17%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.71%) Biopharmaceutical
7 5 (2.26%) PMI
8 4 (1.81%) IoT
8 4 (1.81%) LIMS
8 4 (1.81%) Robotics
9 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.36%) Operational Technology
10 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.90%) Industrial Internet of Things
10 2 (0.90%) Industry 4.0
10 2 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.17%) Windows
2 3 (1.36%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (28.96%) Stakeholder Management
2 44 (19.91%) Data Governance
3 38 (17.19%) Project Management
4 27 (12.22%) Agile
4 27 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (11.31%) Data Management
6 23 (10.41%) Decision-Making
7 20 (9.05%) Business Analysis
7 20 (9.05%) Data Modelling
8 19 (8.60%) Analytics
8 19 (8.60%) Lean Six Sigma
8 19 (8.60%) Project Delivery
8 19 (8.60%) Six Sigma
9 18 (8.14%) Visualisation
10 17 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (7.69%) ETL
10 17 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
11 15 (6.79%) Change Management
11 15 (6.79%) Data Engineering
11 15 (6.79%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.12%) Python
2 20 (9.05%) SQL
3 11 (4.98%) Java
4 8 (3.62%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.71%) Groovy
6 5 (2.26%) C#
7 2 (0.90%) R
Qualifications
1 48 (21.72%) Degree
2 12 (5.43%) IIBA
3 7 (3.17%) Master's Degree
3 7 (3.17%) PMP
4 6 (2.71%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.26%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.26%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.81%) CCNA
6 4 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.81%) MCSA
6 4 (1.81%) MCSE
6 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.36%) PhD
8 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.45%) CISA
9 1 (0.45%) CISM
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.31%) GDPR
2 24 (10.86%) GxP
3 23 (10.41%) QA
4 19 (8.60%) Data Quality
5 18 (8.14%) Good Clinical Practice
6 11 (4.98%) GMP
7 7 (3.17%) PMO
8 5 (2.26%) SLA
9 3 (1.36%) GAMP
10 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.45%) CDISC
11 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.45%) NIST
11 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (4.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.36%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.90%) SCCM
2 2 (0.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 62 (28.05%) SAP
2 29 (13.12%) Ariba
3 17 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.17%) Adobe
6 6 (2.71%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.71%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.71%) Trillium
7 5 (2.26%) Google
7 5 (2.26%) Informatica
7 5 (2.26%) Talend
8 3 (1.36%) HP
8 3 (1.36%) Hyperion
9 2 (0.90%) Apple
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.90%) Snow
10 1 (0.45%) Allen-Bradley
10 1 (0.45%) Concur
10 1 (0.45%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.45%) Workday