CDISC Contract Job Trends in the North West

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring CDISC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CDISC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.030% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

CDISC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 508 280 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.18% 14.39% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 195 253
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £393 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £676 £675 £694
England median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 70
10th Percentile £17.82 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £40.23 £18.24 £10.95
Median hourly rate £60.50 £32.00 £12.42
Median % change year-on-year +89.06% +157.65% -67.78%
75th Percentile £76.00 £76.71 £26.66
90th Percentile £84.63 £85.25 £43.75
England median hourly rate £33.12 £34.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -4.00% +44.96% -44.00%

CDISC
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CDISC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

CDISC job vacancy trend in the North West

CDISC
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CDISC within the North West region over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. 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
Manchester - 1 £450 -
CDISC
England

CDISC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Veeva
General
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Health
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Palantir