About PharmSee

Independent UK pharmacy intelligence — published from England.

What this site is

PharmSee is a publicly accessible analytics platform for the UK pharmacy sector. We aggregate, structure and publish data on:

Pharmacy jobs — daily-refreshed listings from NHS Jobs and major UK pharmacy employers, with salary range, location and role-type breakdowns.
Pharmacist and pharmacy technician salaries — NHS Agenda for Change bands, community pharmacy benchmark pay, locum day rates and regional comparisons.
Pharmacy locations — every NHS England community pharmacy contractor with dispensing volume and geographic coverage.
Plain-English explainers — comparisons of OTC medicines, dosage guidance and consumer-facing pharmacy information.

Our audience is split between pharmacy professionals (technicians, pharmacists, pre-reg trainees, locums and recruiters) and members of the public researching medicines or pharmacy services.

Why it exists

The pay, geography and career data the UK pharmacy sector publishes is fragmented across NHSBSA quarterly releases, individual NHS trust job adverts, Agenda for Change pay circulars and dozens of employer career sites. PharmSee consolidates these sources into one queryable place so professionals can answer questions like "what's the average Band 6 pharmacist salary in Yorkshire?" or "how many community pharmacies operate within 5 miles of Barnsley?" without trawling PDFs.

Data sources

NHSBSA Dispensing DataMonthly community-pharmacy dispensing volumes published by the NHS Business Services Authority.

NHS JobsLive vacancies posted by NHS trusts, PCNs and ICBs across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

NHS ODSThe NHS Organisation Data Service register of healthcare provider organisations.

Agenda for Change pay circularsNHS Employers' official pay scales and updates each financial year.

ONS postcode geographiesOffice for National Statistics postcode-to-locality lookups for spatial analysis.

Index of Multiple DeprivationMHCLG / gov.uk neighbourhood deprivation scores for socioeconomic context.

data.police.ukOpen crime statistics, used for area-context pages.

Public employer career pagesAggregated job postings from Boots, LloydsPharmacy, Day Lewis, Well, Asda Pharmacy, Tesco Pharmacy and others.

Full data-source documentation is at /data-sources. Where licensing requires attribution, it is shown on the relevant page.

Methodology and accuracy

Salary medians are published with sample sizes. Where sample size is below 30, we mark figures as indicative rather than authoritative. NHSBSA dispensing data has a reporting lag — a branch with no recent dispensing activity is not necessarily closed; we state this caveat alongside any branch-level figures.

We do not make commercial-performance claims about named companies that we could not defend with the underlying public data. We do not publish patient-level data, private prescribing data or any information not already in the public domain.

Editorial standards

Articles published on the PharmSee blog follow a measured, journalistic tone with attribution to the source data, hedging where data is incomplete, and named sources for any third-party claims. Articles are written for clarity and informational value, not click maximisation. We do not publish content that would mislead, that names individuals negatively, or that could be construed as commercial defamation.

Independence and funding

PharmSee is independently operated and is not owned by, affiliated with or commercially aligned with any pharmacy chain, employer, NHS body or government agency. Revenue comes from display advertising and from affiliate links to consumer pharmacy products, which are clearly disclosed on the articles where they appear.

Contact

If you spot a data inaccuracy, want to suggest a correction or have any other enquiry, please visit /contact.