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 have cited Pharmaceutical over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 379 268
Rank change year-on-year +64 -111 +6
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 924 855 2,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 0.86% 1.54%
As % of the General category 1.55% 1.26% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 344 401 416
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,649 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +8.49%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.21% +6.00%

All General Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for common skills 59,604 67,868 104,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.64% 68.20% 64.59%
Number of salaries quoted 39,720 36,787 51,225
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,100 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.26%

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 19 May 2024.

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 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +72 853 £50,000 -23.08% 834
UK excluding London +83 676 £50,000 -16.67% 664
Work from Home +30 264 £52,500 -16.00% 231
London +37 228 £60,500 -6.92% 201
South East +45 203 £47,500 -24.00% 153
North of England +96 169 £42,500 -14.14% 194
Midlands +65 108 £60,000 +9.09% 95
Yorkshire +85 85 £40,000 -36.00% 63
North West +51 77 £45,000 -9.09% 111
East of England -44 77 £50,000 -4.76% 123
East Midlands +29 73 £57,500 -25.81% 45
South West +47 61 £47,500 -13.64% 65
West Midlands +38 35 £60,000 +14.29% 50
Northern Ireland +23 28 £50,000 +9.29% 3
Scotland -63 25 £60,000 -7.69% 29
North East - 7 £55,000 - 22
Wales +4 5 - - 24

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 25 (2.71%) Skype for Business
2 21 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.52%) SAS
4 13 (1.41%) Documentum
5 12 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.65%) WinCC
7 5 (0.54%) CMS
7 5 (0.54%) Confluence
8 1 (0.11%) Apache
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.11%) IIS
8 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 93 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (7.47%) Microsoft Office
3 42 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.22%) SPSS
7 2 (0.22%) Stata
Business Applications
1 17 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.73%) TrackWise
3 7 (0.76%) SAP IBP
3 7 (0.76%) SAP PLM
4 6 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.65%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 6 (0.65%) SAP PP
5 5 (0.54%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.54%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.54%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 4 (0.43%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.32%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.32%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.22%) Misys Midas
8 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.11%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.11%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (7.90%) Azure
2 69 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (5.74%) Power Platform
4 33 (3.57%) SaaS
5 23 (2.49%) AWS
6 21 (2.27%) PowerApps
7 14 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.41%) Power Automate
9 11 (1.19%) OneDrive
9 11 (1.19%) ShareGate
10 10 (1.08%) Google Analytics
10 10 (1.08%) Google Tag Manager
11 9 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (0.87%) GCP
13 7 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.76%) PaaS
14 6 (0.65%) GitHub
15 5 (0.54%) BigCommerce
16 4 (0.43%) Storyblok
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.71%) Cisco IOS
1 25 (2.71%) Skype
1 25 (2.71%) Telepresence
2 12 (1.30%) Firewall
3 11 (1.19%) Network Security
4 9 (0.97%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.76%) Intranet
6 6 (0.65%) Internet
6 6 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.54%) RS-232
7 5 (0.54%) Wireless
8 4 (0.43%) Bluetooth
8 4 (0.43%) DHCP
8 4 (0.43%) DNS
9 3 (0.32%) LAN
9 3 (0.32%) SAN
9 3 (0.32%) VPN
9 3 (0.32%) VSAN
10 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.22%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.98%) Power BI
2 31 (3.35%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 14 (1.52%) Tableau
5 12 (1.30%) Big Data
5 12 (1.30%) Metadata
6 11 (1.19%) MySQL
7 10 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 10 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.97%) SAP HANA
9 8 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (0.76%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.76%) Looker
10 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 7 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.54%) Base SAS
11 5 (0.54%) SAP BW
12 4 (0.43%) GIS
12 4 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (1.73%) Git
1 16 (1.73%) JIRA
2 9 (0.97%) Postman
3 8 (0.87%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.76%) Subversion
5 5 (0.54%) JMeter
5 5 (0.54%) Newman
5 5 (0.54%) REST Assured
5 5 (0.54%) Selenium
6 4 (0.43%) gulp
6 4 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (0.43%) MSTest
6 4 (0.43%) NUnit
6 4 (0.43%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.32%) GitLab
7 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.11%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 357 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 326 (35.28%) Manufacturing
3 187 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (17.97%) Finance
5 81 (8.77%) Marketing
6 77 (8.33%) Automotive
7 75 (8.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 63 (6.82%) Retail
9 48 (5.19%) Legal
10 47 (5.09%) Telecoms
11 44 (4.76%) Law
12 35 (3.79%) Aerospace
13 27 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (2.60%) Electronics
15 19 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
16 18 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.62%) Health Technology
18 11 (1.19%) Aviation
18 11 (1.19%) Banking
18 11 (1.19%) French Language
Job Titles
1 172 (18.61%) Senior
2 114 (12.34%) Analyst
3 76 (8.23%) Lead
4 71 (7.68%) Project Manager
5 65 (7.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 59 (6.39%) QA Manager
6 59 (6.39%) QA Specialist
7 34 (3.68%) IT Manager
7 34 (3.68%) Software Engineer
8 32 (3.46%) Support Engineer
9 31 (3.35%) Senior Manager
10 25 (2.71%) Developer
10 25 (2.71%) Technical Leader
11 22 (2.38%) Data Scientist
12 21 (2.27%) Senior Data Scientist
13 20 (2.16%) Business Manager
14 19 (2.06%) Architect
14 19 (2.06%) Associate Director
15 18 (1.95%) Development Manager
15 18 (1.95%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.16%) .NET
2 10 (1.08%) .NET Framework
3 9 (0.97%) XML
4 7 (0.76%) Node.js
4 7 (0.76%) SAP TM
4 7 (0.76%) Web Services
5 6 (0.65%) HTML
5 6 (0.65%) React
6 5 (0.54%) Django
6 5 (0.54%) REST
6 5 (0.54%) Swagger
7 4 (0.43%) .NET Core
7 4 (0.43%) Blazor
7 4 (0.43%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.43%) Flask
7 4 (0.43%) Gherkin
7 4 (0.43%) OAuth
7 4 (0.43%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (0.43%) Vue
7 4 (0.43%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 154 (16.67%) Life Science
2 127 (13.74%) Management Information System
3 60 (6.49%) Biopharmaceutical
3 60 (6.49%) NHS
4 46 (4.98%) Algorithms
5 29 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.71%) Video Conferencing
7 24 (2.60%) FMCG
8 18 (1.95%) LIMS
8 18 (1.95%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.62%) Operational Technology
10 14 (1.52%) Driving Licence
11 13 (1.41%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
13 10 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.08%) SCADA
14 9 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.87%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.52%) Windows
2 28 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 25 (2.71%) Windows 7
4 15 (1.62%) Linux
5 14 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (23.48%) QMS
2 146 (15.80%) Validation
3 129 (13.96%) Biotechnology
4 114 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
5 113 (12.23%) Mentoring
6 106 (11.47%) Project Management
7 101 (10.93%) CAPA
8 79 (8.55%) Coaching
9 73 (7.90%) Line Management
10 72 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 71 (7.68%) Supplier Management
12 69 (7.47%) Business Development
12 69 (7.47%) Quality Management
13 67 (7.25%) Project Delivery
14 61 (6.60%) Analytics
14 61 (6.60%) Business Intelligence
15 60 (6.49%) DevOps
16 57 (6.17%) Process Improvement
17 55 (5.95%) Agile
17 55 (5.95%) Chemistry
Programming Languages
1 74 (8.01%) SQL
2 44 (4.76%) Python
3 38 (4.11%) C#
4 27 (2.92%) R
5 18 (1.95%) C
6 10 (1.08%) JavaScript
6 10 (1.08%) T-SQL
7 6 (0.65%) Java
7 6 (0.65%) PowerShell
7 6 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 5 (0.54%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.43%) Bash
9 4 (0.43%) Groovy
9 4 (0.43%) VB
10 3 (0.32%) C++
10 3 (0.32%) JSX
10 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.22%) PHP
11 2 (0.22%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 404 (43.72%) Degree
2 102 (11.04%) Master's Degree
3 55 (5.95%) PhD
4 39 (4.22%) MBA
5 27 (2.92%) DBS Check
6 25 (2.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 24 (2.60%) CIPD
8 18 (1.95%) Security Cleared
9 13 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
10 12 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.30%) NVQ Level 3
11 11 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
12 10 (1.08%) CFA
12 10 (1.08%) CIMA
12 10 (1.08%) SC Cleared
13 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.76%) HNC
15 6 (0.65%) CISSP
16 5 (0.54%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (31.39%) QA
2 243 (26.30%) GMP
3 54 (5.84%) Good Clinical Practice
4 35 (3.79%) GxP
5 29 (3.14%) GLP
6 25 (2.71%) GDPR
7 20 (2.16%) ISO 9001
8 17 (1.84%) ISO 13485
8 17 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 16 (1.73%) CDISC
10 15 (1.62%) Data Quality
11 14 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 10 (1.08%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 10 (1.08%) GAMP
14 7 (0.76%) SLA
15 4 (0.43%) COSHH
15 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.43%) IEC 62304
15 4 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (2.49%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.08%) Docker
4 5 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.43%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (2.27%) Terraform
2 13 (1.41%) SCOM
3 7 (0.76%) Ansible
3 7 (0.76%) QRadar
4 6 (0.65%) Functional Safety
4 6 (0.65%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.54%) Wonderware InTouch
6 3 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.32%) SCCM
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.11%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.11%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.11%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (0.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 170 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 55 (5.95%) SAP
3 39 (4.22%) Google
4 33 (3.57%) Cisco
5 25 (2.71%) Apple
5 25 (2.71%) Polycom
6 18 (1.95%) VMware
7 11 (1.19%) Nintex
7 11 (1.19%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.08%) Databricks
9 9 (0.97%) Siemens
10 8 (0.87%) QAD
10 8 (0.87%) Rockwell
11 7 (0.76%) AVEVA
12 6 (0.65%) IBM
12 6 (0.65%) Oracle
12 6 (0.65%) Splunk
13 5 (0.54%) ServiceNow
13 5 (0.54%) Wonderware
14 4 (0.43%) SYSPRO