Biopharmaceutical Contracts

Biopharmaceutical
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Biopharmaceutical in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Biopharmaceutical over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 690 819
Rank change year-on-year +122 +129 -103
Contract jobs citing Biopharmaceutical 16 7 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.037% 0.013% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.038% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 19
10th Percentile £320 £310 £310
25th Percentile £363 £316 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £585
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -40.17% +5.41%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £724
90th Percentile £610 £635 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £313 £585
% change year-on-year +20.00% -46.58% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £30.16 - -
75th Percentile £42.31 - -
90th Percentile £64.17 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Biopharmaceutical falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

Biopharmaceutical
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Biopharmaceutical as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

Biopharmaceutical
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Biopharmaceutical.

Daily rate trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Biopharmaceutical over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Biopharmaceutical.

Hourly rate trend for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Biopharmaceutical over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Biopharmaceutical in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Biopharmaceutical within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +96 16 £375 +7.14% 36
London +87 8 £600 -14.29% 10
UK excluding London +34 7 £375 +20.00% 21
South East - 6 £375 - 7
Work from Home +118 5 £600 - 14
North of England +16 1 - - 3

Biopharmaceutical
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 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Figma
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
2 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
General
1 14 (87.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 7 (43.75%) Manufacturing
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) French Language
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Project Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) React Developer
2 4 (25.00%) UX Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Functional Architect
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Architect
4 1 (6.25%) SAP MM Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) SAS Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) PySpark
2 4 (25.00%) CSS
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
2 4 (25.00%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Redux
4 1 (6.25%) EDI
4 1 (6.25%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
1 7 (43.75%) Validation
2 5 (31.25%) Analytics
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
2 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (31.25%) Data Validation
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
2 5 (31.25%) Use Case
2 5 (31.25%) Visualisation
3 4 (25.00%) Business Analytics
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Data Interpretation
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (25.00%) User Experience
3 4 (25.00%) UX Design
3 4 (25.00%) Web Development
3 4 (25.00%) Wireframes
4 3 (18.75%) Biology
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GxP
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 2 (12.50%) Sitecore
3 1 (6.25%) Ariba