Jobs / Data and analytics / 15-2051.02
Clinical Data Managers
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
- US jobs
- 262,440 (SOC 15-2051 group, "Data Scientists")
- Median wage
- $120,230 a year
- Job family
- Data and analytics
Can agents do the work of clinical data managers?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Data and analytics:
- Task levelPartialOne direct benchmark, near its ceiling. On Spider 2.0-Snow, which asks for multi-step SQL against large business databases, the top agent reaches 96.7% execution accuracy, but the entry names no model. Adjacent spreadsheet tasks agree (83.1% on SpreadsheetBench). No benchmark in our collection tests open-ended analysis, where the right question is itself unclear.
- Project levelPartialMixed, adjacent evidence. On MLE-bench, 75 offline Kaggle competitions, the best agent wins a medal in 64.4% of competitions. The Remote Labor Index includes data analysis projects; across all its projects, the best agent completed 15.8% to a standard a client would accept.
Benchmarks for this occupation
- 96.7%Genloop's Sentinel Agent v2 Pro · 1 Mar 2026Saturated
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in data and analytics, not always this occupation's tasks.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- 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.
- Design forms for receiving, processing, or tracking data.
- Prepare data analysis listings and activity, performance, or progress reports.
- Confer with end users to define or implement clinical system requirements such as data release formats, delivery schedules, and testing protocols.
- Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy, completeness, or proper usage of clinical systems and data.
- Analyze clinical data using appropriate statistical tools.
- Evaluate processes and technologies, and suggest revisions to increase productivity and efficiency.
Other job titles for this occupation (20)
Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director) · Clinical Data Management Manager (CDM Manager) · Clinical Data Manager · Clinical Informatics Manager · Data Deliverables Manager · Data Management Manager · Abstractor · Analyst · Application Analyst · Application Coordinator · Clinical Applications Director · Clinical Biostatistics Director · Clinical Data Abstractor · Clinical Data Analyst · Clinical Data Coordinator · Clinical Statistics Manager · Clinical Trials Data Coordinator · Data Coordinator · Health Informatics Analyst · Inpatient Orders Analyst