The situation isn't great at the moment. When I graduated jobs were easy to come by and there were pages of recruitment adverts. Now many NHS trusts have a recruitment freeze, in community many companies are reducing their recruitment. This year the lowest number of pre-regs in many years have been offered permanent positions in the companies they are currently working for.
Take any chance you can to gain experience that would help you have the edge in applications.
Meant to add there has been much debate recently about reducing the number of University places available to study pharmacy because of the reduction in the number of jobs.