CDISC Job Trends

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring CDISC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 690 631
Rank change year-on-year +47 -59 +352
Permanent jobs citing CDISC 10 9 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.017% 0.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.13% 0.10% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -47.50%
75th Percentile - - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,842 8,646 8,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.07% 16.16% 14.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,375 3,830 5,921
10th Percentile £30,370 £31,925 £30,318
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.51% +0.81%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

CDISC
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CDISC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CDISC job vacancy trend in the UK

CDISC
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CDISC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CDISC

CDISC
Top 3 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 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 10 - -
UK excluding London +58 10 - -
South East +37 10 - -

CDISC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 10 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 10 (100.00%) Life Science
1 10 (100.00%) Omics
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) AI
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) Bioinformatics
1 10 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 10 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 10 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 10 (100.00%) Data Science
1 10 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 10 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 10 (100.00%) Hematology
1 10 (100.00%) Immunology
1 10 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 10 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 10 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 10 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 10 (100.00%) Statistics
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
1 10 (100.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 10 (100.00%) GxP
1 10 (100.00%) HL7