Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CDISC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CDISC over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 - 857
Rank change year-on-year - - -166
Contract jobs citing CDISC 9 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% - 0.011%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% - 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £202
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £77.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,207 7,903 11,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.30% 13.38% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,942 5,432 8,083
10th Percentile £297 £280 £295
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £623
90th Percentile £750 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 383 237 299
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.29 £12.02
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £16.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.50 £77.50 £66.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £32.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -44.62% +54.39% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CDISC.

Daily rate trend for CDISC in the UK

CDISC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CDISC.

Hourly rate trend for CDISC in the UK

CDISC
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CDISC within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Work from Home - 9 - - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
South East - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 4

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 9 (100.00%) SAS
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
1 7 (77.78%) Veeva
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Programmer
2 3 (33.33%) Clinical Data Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Data Manager
3 2 (22.22%) SAS Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) SAS Statistical Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Statistical Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Validation
2 7 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (77.78%) Data Management
3 4 (44.44%) Data Collection
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Data Entry
4 3 (33.33%) Data Validation
4 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Biostatistics
5 1 (11.11%) Biotechnology
5 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (11.11%) Software Deployment
5 1 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) R
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) C#
3 7 (77.78%) VB
4 6 (66.67%) Python
5 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GxP
2 3 (33.33%) Good Clinical Practice
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks