Medical writers - what kind of salaries?

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I have a job as an entry-level medical writer in London and my salary is £26,500. I'm coming up to the one year mark and wondering what kind of salaries other medical writers, particularly early on in their careers, are on? I feel like £26,500 is decent for a new graduate, but I'm wondering if moving on to another company might bump my salary a bit?

I didn't do the Associate Medical Writer step and started as a Medical Writer on £28,000 in 2020. I got a couple of salary increases without any promotions in the following 18 months (to £30,000 and then 6 months later to £33,000). I was then promoted to Senior Medical Writer and paid £40,000.

Thank you for your reply. Can I ask how did your salary increases happen? Did you request a pay rise with your line manager, or did you just get told your salary was increasing? Did it happen during a performance review or just out of the blue?

Sorry for all of the questions, just trying to work out how pay rises work

Our company used to do annual pay reviews for employees during January and July and depending on when you started/last had a promotion you would fall into one of those reviews. It wasn't related to performance and happened automatically (there was no discussion). The first pay rise happened in the January review, but then I guess I must have been earning less than other writers because my pay went up again by £3000 in the July review. Unfortunately they have now changed things so that everyone just gets an annual pay review in April and the amount is fixed for everyone. This April everyone's salary went up 2% so that was £800 for me.

Can I ask more about the job please? What exactly do you do? What qualifications and experience do you need? Do you work from home?
I am a teacher with a disabled child, looking for a new role.

Medical writers write up clinical data in various formats such as manuscripts, abstracts and presentations. They can also write materials for healthcare professionals, patients etc, and training materials for medical scientists in the form of slide decks. There are opportunities to attend congresses to support on things like symposiums.
A degree in a life science or medical/health field is essential. A PhD is desirable and most writers have one.
I work from home, as do all my colleagues though we do have offices should people wish to go in.

Sorry to add - the clients that commission the above work are pharmaceutical companies.

Medical writers are very much in demand in the clinical trials, contract research organisation arena. I would look on Linkedin, CROs and regulatory consultancy companies pay very well for these roles