Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CDISC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited CDISC over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 643 703 711
Rank change year-on-year +60 +8 +41
Permanent jobs citing CDISC 84 416 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.33% 0.32%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.06% 1.87% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £87,500 -
25th Percentile - £91,250 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £100,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +54.55%
75th Percentile - £106,250 £87,500
90th Percentile - £108,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,933 22,280 20,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.73% 17.63% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,817 12,040 12,594
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,875 £40,293
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.67%

CDISC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CDISC in the UK

CDISC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CDISC.

Salary trend for CDISC in the UK

CDISC
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CDISC within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +141 84 - - 9
Work from Home +208 83 - - 10
UK excluding London +64 83 - - 2
South East +163 70 - - 1
North of England +65 13 - -
Yorkshire +47 13 - -
London +252 1 - - 8

CDISC
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 84 (100.00%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (98.81%) Base SAS
2 66 (78.57%) Metadata
General
1 84 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 83 (98.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.19%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (79.76%) Programmer
1 67 (79.76%) Statistical Programmer
2 66 (78.57%) SAS Programmer
2 66 (78.57%) SAS Statistical Programmer
3 35 (41.67%) Senior
3 35 (41.67%) Senior Programmer
3 35 (41.67%) Senior SAS Programmer
3 35 (41.67%) Senior Statistical Programmer
4 31 (36.90%) Principal Statistical Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (80.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (98.81%) Life Science
1 83 (98.81%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) Statistics
2 83 (98.81%) Biotechnology
2 83 (98.81%) Collaborative Working
2 83 (98.81%) Computer Science
2 83 (98.81%) Creative Thinking
2 83 (98.81%) Line Management
2 83 (98.81%) Mathematics
2 83 (98.81%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (58.33%) Immunology
4 48 (57.14%) Biostatistics
4 48 (57.14%) Clinical Data Management
4 48 (57.14%) Data Management
4 48 (57.14%) Decision-Making
4 48 (57.14%) Project Management
4 48 (57.14%) Time Management
5 17 (20.24%) Performance Management
6 15 (17.86%) People Management
7 7 (8.33%) Commercialisation
8 1 (1.19%) Task Automation
8 1 (1.19%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (98.81%) SAS Macro
2 1 (1.19%) Java
2 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (100.00%) Degree
2 31 (36.90%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (78.57%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) Good Clinical Practice