Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CDISC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CDISC over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 701 887 944
Rank change year-on-year +186 +57 -144
Permanent jobs citing CDISC 10 23 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.023% 0.020%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.11% 0.17% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £68,750 - -
25th Percentile £70,313 £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% - -
75th Percentile £86,563 £58,750 -
90th Percentile £88,125 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 - -

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 9,019 13,619 18,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.49% 13.33% 18.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,521 9,184 8,594
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.71%

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 6 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 28 May 2025. 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
Work from Home +129 10 £77,500 +47.62% 4
England +142 6 £77,500 +47.62% 10
London +109 4 £78,750 +50.00% 7
UK excluding London +188 2 £76,250 - 3
South East +84 1 £77,500 - 2
East of England - 1 £75,000 -

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 3 (30.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (60.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Moq
1 6 (60.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (60.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Programmer
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (40.00%) Statistical Programmer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Programmer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Statistical Programmer
5 2 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Lead
6 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Principal Statistical Programmer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
1 6 (60.00%) .NET Core
1 6 (60.00%) .NET Framework
1 6 (60.00%) Entity Framework
1 6 (60.00%) FHIR
1 6 (60.00%) OAuth
1 6 (60.00%) OAuth2
1 6 (60.00%) REST
1 6 (60.00%) Swagger
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) API Design
2 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (60.00%) Data Security
2 6 (60.00%) Database Migration
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) Statistics
3 3 (30.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (10.00%) API Development
5 1 (10.00%) Business Development
5 1 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (30.00%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) Master's Degree
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (30.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker