GxP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for GxP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GxP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 646 763
Rank change year-on-year +125 +117 -112
Contract jobs citing GxP 55 38 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.067% 0.098%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.91% 0.50% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 56
10th Percentile - £252 -
25th Percentile £405 £306 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £406
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +10.77% -9.72%
75th Percentile £538 £494 £508
90th Percentile £586 £600 £581
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +17.14% -30.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £59.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

GxP is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,042 7,608 11,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.20% 13.36% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 5,204 7,919
10th Percentile £282 £281 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.31% +8.03%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.83% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 236 309
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.74 £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.84% +7.69% +54.76%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.50 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £32.94 £22.50
% change year-on-year -44.54% +46.41% +7.14%

GxP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GxP in the UK

GxP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for GxP in the UK

GxP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GxP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GxP in the UK

GxP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for GxP in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GxP over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GxP in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GxP within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +121 42 £410 -8.89% 20
UK excluding London +63 33 £410 +17.14% 14
East of England +16 18 £410 -0.61% 2
Work from Home +122 14 £538 -6.52% 11
North of England +35 14 £410 +39.57% 3
North West +28 14 £410 +39.57% 3
London +99 5 £525 +9.09% 7
South East +9 3 £550 +116.11% 6

GxP
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 9 (16.36%) Confluence
2 4 (7.27%) SAS
3 1 (1.82%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (21.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (5.45%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.82%) Relativity
3 1 (1.82%) SAP PP
3 1 (1.82%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) Power Platform
2 8 (14.55%) Collibra
3 6 (10.91%) Azure
4 3 (5.45%) SaaS
4 3 (5.45%) Veeva
5 2 (3.64%) AWS
5 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.82%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) Power BI
2 6 (10.91%) Metadata
3 3 (5.45%) SAP HANA
4 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.82%) Ataccama
5 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.82%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) JIRA
2 7 (12.73%) Eclipse
2 7 (12.73%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.82%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 26 (47.27%) Manufacturing
3 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Finance
5 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.45%) German Language
7 2 (3.64%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) French Language
8 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (45.45%) Analyst
2 22 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
4 5 (9.09%) Consultant
4 5 (9.09%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Data Business Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Data Manager
5 4 (7.27%) Data Product Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Product Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Product Business Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Product Owner
5 4 (7.27%) SAP Manager
6 3 (5.45%) Clinical Data Manager
6 3 (5.45%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Lead
6 3 (5.45%) SAP Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) EDI
1 1 (1.82%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Life Science
2 5 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) Data Governance
2 19 (34.55%) Lean Six Sigma
2 19 (34.55%) Six Sigma
3 17 (30.91%) Business Analysis
3 17 (30.91%) Validation
4 16 (29.09%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (29.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (23.64%) Data Protection
6 12 (21.82%) Agile
6 12 (21.82%) Analytics
6 12 (21.82%) Business Process Modelling
6 12 (21.82%) Project Management
6 12 (21.82%) Requirements Analysis
6 12 (21.82%) Requirements Engineering
6 12 (21.82%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (21.82%) Stakeholder Analysis
7 11 (20.00%) Process Improvement
8 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.55%) Biotechnology
10 7 (12.73%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) SQL
2 9 (16.36%) Python
3 7 (12.73%) Groovy
3 7 (12.73%) Java
3 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.27%) R
5 3 (5.45%) C#
5 3 (5.45%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.45%) VB
6 1 (1.82%) ABAP
6 1 (1.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (29.09%) Degree
2 12 (21.82%) IIBA
3 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.64%) PMP
3 2 (3.64%) SAP Certification
4 1 (1.82%) CISM
4 1 (1.82%) CISSP
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (40.00%) Good Clinical Practice
2 21 (38.18%) GDPR
3 7 (12.73%) GAMP
4 6 (10.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (7.27%) CDISC
6 3 (5.45%) GMP
7 2 (3.64%) QA
8 1 (1.82%) COBIT
8 1 (1.82%) NIST
8 1 (1.82%) PMO
Vendors
1 14 (25.45%) SAP
2 3 (5.45%) Hyperion
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.64%) Ariba
3 2 (3.64%) Databricks
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Cadence
4 1 (1.82%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) StreamSets
4 1 (1.82%) Talend