Clinical Data Managers
Health ScienceO*NET 15-2051.02United States
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
- Median annual earnings
- $119,406
- Projected change
- +33.7%
- Typical education
- Bachelor's degree
- Employment
- 270.26K jobs
50th percentile, United States
2025 to 2035
90% of the workforce
Growing to 361.39K by 2035
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The work
What clinical data managers do
Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.
- Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
- Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
- Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.
- Develop project-specific data management plans that address areas such as coding, reporting, or transfer of data, database locks, and work flow processes.
- Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
- Prepare appropriate formatting to data sets as requested.
- Prepare data analysis listings and activity, performance, or progress reports.
- Design forms for receiving, processing, or tracking data.
- Confer with end users to define or implement clinical system requirements such as data release formats, delivery schedules, and testing protocols.
- Evaluate processes and technologies, and suggest revisions to increase productivity and efficiency.
- Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy, completeness, or proper usage of clinical systems and data.
- Analyze clinical data using appropriate statistical tools.
- Develop technical specifications for data management programming and communicate needs to information technology staff.
- Write work instruction manuals, data capture guidelines, or standard operating procedures.
- Contribute to the compilation, organization, and production of protocols, clinical study reports, regulatory submissions, or other controlled documentation.
- Track the flow of work forms, including in-house data flow or electronic forms transfer.
- Supervise the work of data management project staff.
- Read technical literature and participate in continuing education or professional associations to maintain awareness of current database technology and best practices.
- Train staff on technical procedures or software program usage.
Pay and outlook
What the job pays and where it is heading
Annual earnings range
Reported earnings by percentile, United States
- 10th percentile
- $66,421
- 25th percentile
- $84,874
- 50th percentile
- $119,406
- 75th percentile
- $159,162
- 90th percentile
- $200,715
The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $119,406 and half earn less.
Employment outlook
2025 to 2035 projection
+33.7%much faster than average
2025270,259 jobs
2035 projected361,393 jobs
91,134 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.
Preparation
Education levels
What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.
- Bachelor's degree
- 90%
- Associate degree
- 5%
- Master's or Professional degree
- 5%
Skills
Skills employers ask for
Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.
How the work gets done
Core competencies
Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.
- Critical Thinking
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Speaking
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Listening
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Writing
- Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Monitoring
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Active Learning
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Mathematics
- Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Complex Problem Solving
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Time Management
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Coordination
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Programming
- Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Systems Analysis
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Social Perceptiveness
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Systems Evaluation
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Instructing
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Learning Strategies
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Operations Analysis
- Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
In the market
Job titles and employers
Recent job postings in United StatesCommon job titles
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- 07Application Analysts382 postings
- 08Epic Certified Analysts351 postings
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- 13Epic Grand Central/Prelude Analysts247 postings
- 14Epic Willow Application Analysts242 postings
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- 16Principals228 postings
- 17Epic Clindoc Analysts227 postings
- 18Clinical Informaticists196 postings
- 19Clinical Application Analysts195 postings
- 20Clinical Data Analysts191 postings
Top employers
- 01Intermountain Health1,130 postings
- 02Accenture820 postings
- 03Baylor Scott & White Health577 postings
- 04Insight Global440 postings
- 05Deloitte422 postings
- 06Parexel417 postings
- 07Amerit Consulting383 postings
- 08Ensemble Health Partners338 postings
- 09Sumitomo Pharma258 postings
- 10TEKsystems252 postings
- 11Cytel220 postings
- 12Stiftelsen Norstella205 postings
- 13Navitas Partners186 postings
- 14Albany Medical Center181 postings
- 15Medisys Health Network161 postings
- 16Providence157 postings
- 17Beacon Hill Staffing Group119 postings
- 18Datavant113 postings
- 19inVentiv Health111 postings
- 20IQVIA106 postings
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