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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 353 287
Rank change year-on-year +30 -66 +6
Permanent jobs citing Pharmaceutical 864 966 2,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 0.93% 1.41%
As % of the General category 1.47% 1.36% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 333 412 393
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,350 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,487 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £60,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year -17.50% +10.60% +8.50%

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 58,971 71,012 99,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 59.85% 68.41% 63.82%
Number of salaries quoted 39,619 38,243 51,172
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,481 £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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £101,250 £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 2 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 2 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 +43 799 £50,000 -23.08% 617
UK excluding London +28 626 £49,500 -17.50% 534
Work from Home +34 244 £52,500 -16.00% 185
London +34 218 £60,500 -6.92% 109
South East +42 193 £47,500 -24.00% 124
North of England +59 149 £40,000 -19.19% 164
Midlands +32 102 £60,000 +9.09% 76
East of England -39 78 £50,000 -7.83% 87
Yorkshire +66 74 £40,000 -36.00% 58
North West +44 70 £43,000 -13.13% 87
East Midlands +7 70 £48,750 -37.10% 36
South West +22 51 £47,500 +18.75% 52
West Midlands +28 32 £60,000 +14.29% 40
Northern Ireland +32 26 £50,000 +9.29% 7
Scotland -52 22 £60,000 -7.69% 36
Wales +12 5 - - 12
North East - 5 £55,000 - 25

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 (2.89%) Skype for Business
2 21 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.74%) SAS
4 13 (1.50%) Documentum
5 12 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.58%) WinCC
7 4 (0.46%) NServiceBus
8 3 (0.35%) CMS
8 3 (0.35%) Confluence
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (10.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (4.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.23%) SPSS
7 2 (0.23%) Stata
Business Applications
1 17 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.85%) TrackWise
3 7 (0.81%) SAP IBP
3 7 (0.81%) SAP PLM
4 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 6 (0.69%) SAP PP
5 5 (0.58%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.46%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 4 (0.46%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.35%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.35%) SAP SCM
8 2 (0.23%) Misys Midas
9 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.12%) SAP Business One
9 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 72 (8.33%) Azure
2 69 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (5.90%) Power Platform
4 35 (4.05%) SaaS
5 21 (2.43%) AWS
5 21 (2.43%) PowerApps
6 17 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (1.50%) Power Automate
8 11 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 11 (1.27%) ShareGate
9 9 (1.04%) Google Analytics
9 9 (1.04%) Google Tag Manager
9 9 (1.04%) PaaS
10 8 (0.93%) GCP
11 7 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (0.69%) GitHub
12 6 (0.69%) IaaS
13 4 (0.46%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.89%) Cisco IOS
1 25 (2.89%) Skype
1 25 (2.89%) Telepresence
2 10 (1.16%) Firewall
2 10 (1.16%) Network Security
3 7 (0.81%) Ethernet
3 7 (0.81%) Intranet
4 6 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.58%) DHCP
5 5 (0.58%) DNS
5 5 (0.58%) Internet
5 5 (0.58%) RS-232
5 5 (0.58%) Wireless
6 4 (0.46%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.35%) LAN
7 3 (0.35%) SAN
7 3 (0.35%) VPN
7 3 (0.35%) VSAN
8 2 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.09%) Power BI
2 31 (3.59%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.62%) Tableau
4 13 (1.50%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.39%) MySQL
6 11 (1.27%) Big Data
7 10 (1.16%) Metadata
8 9 (1.04%) Data Lake
8 9 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.93%) SAP HANA
10 7 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.81%) Looker
10 7 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.58%) Base SAS
13 4 (0.46%) GIS
13 4 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.46%) SAP BW
13 4 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (1.74%) JIRA
2 14 (1.62%) Git
3 9 (1.04%) Postman
4 7 (0.81%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.81%) Subversion
5 5 (0.58%) JMeter
5 5 (0.58%) Newman
5 5 (0.58%) REST Assured
5 5 (0.58%) Selenium
6 4 (0.46%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (0.46%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.35%) MSTest
7 3 (0.35%) NUnit
8 2 (0.23%) GitLab
8 2 (0.23%) gulp
8 2 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 336 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 292 (33.80%) Manufacturing
3 173 (20.02%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (19.33%) Finance
5 77 (8.91%) Automotive
6 73 (8.45%) Marketing
7 70 (8.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 63 (7.29%) Retail
9 52 (6.02%) Legal
10 50 (5.79%) Telecoms
11 47 (5.44%) Law
12 33 (3.82%) Aerospace
13 24 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
14 22 (2.55%) Electronics
15 18 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (1.74%) Health Technology
18 12 (1.39%) French Language
18 12 (1.39%) German Language
19 10 (1.16%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 136 (15.74%) Senior
2 103 (11.92%) Analyst
3 79 (9.14%) Lead
4 71 (8.22%) Project Manager
5 58 (6.71%) QA Manager
6 34 (3.94%) IT Manager
6 34 (3.94%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 33 (3.82%) Senior Manager
7 33 (3.82%) Support Engineer
8 28 (3.24%) QA Specialist
8 28 (3.24%) Software Engineer
9 25 (2.89%) Technical Leader
10 22 (2.55%) Developer
11 21 (2.43%) Business Manager
12 19 (2.20%) Development Manager
12 19 (2.20%) QA Leader
13 18 (2.08%) Architect
13 18 (2.08%) Business Development Manager
13 18 (2.08%) Data Scientist
13 18 (2.08%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.85%) .NET
2 12 (1.39%) XML
3 10 (1.16%) Web Services
4 8 (0.93%) .NET Framework
5 7 (0.81%) JSON
5 7 (0.81%) SAP TM
6 6 (0.69%) HTML
7 5 (0.58%) Swagger
8 4 (0.46%) Gherkin
8 4 (0.46%) Node.js
8 4 (0.46%) OAuth
8 4 (0.46%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.46%) React
8 4 (0.46%) SAML
8 4 (0.46%) XSLT
8 4 (0.46%) Yocto
9 3 (0.35%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.35%) Django
9 3 (0.35%) Middleware
9 3 (0.35%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 138 (15.97%) Life Science
2 126 (14.58%) Management Information System
3 55 (6.37%) Biopharmaceutical
4 54 (6.25%) NHS
5 36 (4.17%) Algorithms
6 28 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.89%) Video Conferencing
8 24 (2.78%) FMCG
9 18 (2.08%) LIMS
10 16 (1.85%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.74%) Operational Technology
12 13 (1.50%) Client/Server
12 13 (1.50%) Driving Licence
13 10 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
14 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.04%) SCADA
15 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.90%) Windows
2 28 (3.24%) Windows 10
3 25 (2.89%) Windows 7
4 15 (1.74%) Linux
4 15 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (21.18%) QMS
2 145 (16.78%) Validation
3 118 (13.66%) Biotechnology
4 109 (12.62%) Project Management
5 107 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (9.26%) Mentoring
7 70 (8.10%) CAPA
7 70 (8.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (7.99%) Business Development
9 68 (7.87%) Quality Management
10 65 (7.52%) Project Delivery
11 61 (7.06%) DevOps
12 59 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
13 57 (6.60%) Agile
14 52 (6.02%) Chemistry
14 52 (6.02%) Roadmaps
15 49 (5.67%) Coaching
15 49 (5.67%) Process Improvement
16 48 (5.56%) Analytics
16 48 (5.56%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 71 (8.22%) SQL
2 41 (4.75%) Python
3 35 (4.05%) C#
4 28 (3.24%) R
5 17 (1.97%) C
6 10 (1.16%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.04%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.04%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.81%) Java
9 4 (0.46%) Bash
9 4 (0.46%) Bicep
9 4 (0.46%) Embedded C
9 4 (0.46%) Groovy
9 4 (0.46%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.46%) VB
10 3 (0.35%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.23%) C++
11 2 (0.23%) JSX
11 2 (0.23%) PHP
11 2 (0.23%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 357 (41.32%) Degree
2 96 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 46 (5.32%) PhD
4 42 (4.86%) MBA
5 25 (2.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 22 (2.55%) DBS Check
7 20 (2.31%) CIPD
8 17 (1.97%) Security Cleared
9 13 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
10 11 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.27%) NVQ Level 3
11 10 (1.16%) CFA
11 10 (1.16%) CIMA
11 10 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.04%) SC Cleared
13 7 (0.81%) HNC
14 6 (0.69%) CISSP
15 5 (0.58%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (29.63%) QA
2 213 (24.65%) GMP
3 55 (6.37%) Good Clinical Practice
4 34 (3.94%) GxP
5 27 (3.13%) GLP
6 22 (2.55%) GDPR
7 19 (2.20%) ISO 9001
8 17 (1.97%) CDISC
8 17 (1.97%) ISO 13485
9 16 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 14 (1.62%) Data Quality
11 13 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 10 (1.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 10 (1.16%) GAMP
14 7 (0.81%) SLA
15 4 (0.46%) COSHH
15 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.46%) IEC 62304
15 4 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.16%) Docker
4 5 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.46%) VMware Server
6 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (2.31%) Terraform
2 11 (1.27%) SCOM
3 7 (0.81%) Ansible
3 7 (0.81%) QRadar
4 6 (0.69%) Functional Safety
4 6 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.58%) Wonderware InTouch
6 3 (0.35%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (0.35%) FortiGate
6 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.35%) SCCM
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.12%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.12%) Computer Incident Response Team
8 1 (0.12%) DatAdvantage
8 1 (0.12%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Stealthwatch
8 1 (0.12%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 168 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.25%) SAP
3 39 (4.51%) Google
4 33 (3.82%) Cisco
5 25 (2.89%) Apple
5 25 (2.89%) Polycom
6 18 (2.08%) VMware
7 11 (1.27%) Nintex
8 9 (1.04%) Databricks
8 9 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.93%) QAD
9 8 (0.93%) Siemens
10 7 (0.81%) Rockwell
11 6 (0.69%) AVEVA
11 6 (0.69%) IBM
11 6 (0.69%) Splunk
12 5 (0.58%) Oracle
12 5 (0.58%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.58%) Wonderware
13 4 (0.46%) SYSPRO