Clinical & Regulatory Skills in Demand

Clinical and regulatory professionals run trials and move medicines and devices through approval. Advanced degrees are common, and knowledge of the rules matters as much as scientific background.

We analyzed 164 U.S. job descriptions from 56 employers for Clinical & Regulatory roles. The most requested skills were Clinical trials (20%), Excel (16%) and Regulatory compliance (14%).

1,621open U.S. roles tracked
4 yearstypical experience asked for
$184,100median advertised pay, from 103 roles that state it

Clinical

  • Clinical trials20%
  • Good Clinical Practice10%
  • FDA regulations5%

Business tools

  • Excel16%
  • PowerPoint10%
  • CRM systems7%

Finance & legal

  • Regulatory compliance14%
  • CPA3%

Product & design

  • Project management14%

Data

  • Statistics7%

Updated November 7, 2026, using job descriptions collected since September 25, 2026. Shares show how many of the sampled descriptions mention a skill, so a low share can still be a firm requirement in the roles that list it. We sample a limited number of descriptions per employer so that no single company dominates, and we only report figures backed by several employers. Advertised pay comes from a different group of roles than H1B filings, so the two are not directly comparable.

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