Good Clinical Practice Job Trends

Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Good Clinical Practice skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 695 630 826
Rank change year-on-year -65 +196 +28
Permanent jobs citing Good Clinical Practice 16 25 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.057% 0.061%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.17% 0.34% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £22,731 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £37,047 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - +40.00% -
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £38,750
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +46.67% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Good Clinical Practice 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 9,306 7,297 13,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.29% 16.62% 13.78%
Number of salaries quoted 5,601 4,001 9,202
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +11.58% -5.00%

Good Clinical Practice
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Good Clinical Practice job vacancy trend in the UK

Good Clinical Practice
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Good Clinical Practice.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Good Clinical Practice

Good Clinical Practice
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Good Clinical Practice within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -52 16 £52,500 - 2
UK excluding London -54 16 £52,500 -4.55% 2
South East -7 15 - - 1
Work from Home +20 1 £52,500 -4.55% 1
South West - 1 £52,500 - 1

Good Clinical Practice
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:

Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Spotfire
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 16 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (93.75%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Health Technology
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Data Manager
1 10 (62.50%) Junior
2 1 (6.25%) Auditor
2 1 (6.25%) Developer
2 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Life Science
2 4 (25.00%) Pharmacovigilance
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Clinical Data Management
1 10 (62.50%) Data Acquisition
1 10 (62.50%) Data Cleansing
1 10 (62.50%) Data Collection
1 10 (62.50%) Data Management
1 10 (62.50%) Data Visualisation
1 10 (62.50%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 10 (62.50%) Validation
1 10 (62.50%) Visualisation
2 5 (31.25%) CAPA
2 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (25.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 4 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 4 (25.00%) GxP
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft