Biostatistician

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

A Biostatistician conducts statistical analysis of health and biology-related data. Analysis may be used for product development at a pharmaceutical company, disease research at a hospital or health policy research at a public health organization.

Job Outlook

There were 166 Biostatistician job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 2670 in the United States.

In combination with other careers in the Biostatistician industry, which includes the Biostatistician career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2015:

Salary

Many new Biostatistician jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.

National

The average estimated salary in the United States for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $84,934.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $88,722.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Biostatistician postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $61,358.

Education and Experience

Posted Biostatistician jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.

Education Level	Percentage
Associate's Degree	0%
Bachelor's Degree	22.73%
Master's Degree	71.54%
Doctoral Degree	45.99%
Other	4.34%

Posted Biostatistician jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Years of Experience	Percentage
0 to 2 years	29.99%
3 to 5 years	48.35%
6 to 8 years	12.94%
9+ years	8.72%

Skills

Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Biostatistician positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.

Baseline Skills

A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.

Research (61.91%)
Communication (36.67%)
Writing (33.48%)
Management (31.27%)
Presentations (26.4%)
Leadership (23.63%)
Verbal Communication Skills (15.58%)
Planning (15.54%)
Mathematics (14.64%)
Problem Solving (14.53%)

Defining Skills

A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.

Statistical Programming (30.16%)
Statistical Analysis (65.98%)
Clinical Research (26.87%)
Clinical Trials (53.09%)
Biostatistics (80.04%)
Clinical Study Design (29.96%)
Data Collection (21%)
Epidemiology (24.3%)
Data Management (33.21%)
R (Programming Language) (49.68%)
Data Analysis (50.64%)
Statistical Software (21.65%)
Survival Analysis (15.38%)
Statistics (45.38%)
SAS (Software) (70.96%)
Statistical Methods (37.03%)

Necessary Skills

A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.

Statistical Reporting (12.57%)
Project Documentation (1.24%)
Grant Applications (6.47%)
Biotechnology (8.51%)
Medical Devices (10.68%)
Auditing (5.78%)
Medical Affairs (2.81%)
Microsoft Access (6.27%)
Medical Research (9.2%)
Business Development (2.01%)
Public Health (11.89%)
Biology (8.07%)
Coherent Remote File System (CRFS) (5.38%)
Python (Programming Language) (13.53%)
Clinical Study Reports (12.93%)
Data Quality (12.01%)
Database Design (5.7%)
Pre-Clinical Development (14.46%)
Case Report Forms (12.41%)
Standard Operating Procedure (11.04%)
Longitudinal Study (6.71%)
Research Methodologies (6.1%)
Milestones (Project Management) (1.69%)
Machine Learning (9.48%)
SPSS (Statistical Software) (9.2%)
Good Clinical Practices (GCP) (3.86%)
Oncology (5.78%)
Project Management (15.94%)
Drug Development (6.79%)
Electronic Medical Record (8.07%)
SAP Applications (8.23%)
Pharmaceuticals (19.84%)
SQL (Programming Language) (14.7%)
Statistical Packages (7.55%)
Statistical Modeling (12.05%)
Real World Data (5.06%)
Data Science (9.6%)
Sampling (Statistics) (4.06%)
Safety Monitoring (3.82%)
Stata (16.14%)
Regulatory Requirements (3.61%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

Linear Model (2.09%)
Parametric Methods (1.53%)
Categorical Data (5.06%)
Rmarkdown (1.04%)

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is listed.

Data Analysis (57.63%)
Clinical Research (30.58%)
SAS (Software) (80.76%)
Statistics (51.65%)

Alternative Job Titles

Sometimes employers post jobs with Biostatistician skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:

Principal Biostatistician
Biometrician
Research Biostatistician
Biometrics Technician
Biostatistics Manager
Lead Biostatistician
Biostatistician/Epidemiologist
Metrics Consultant
Statistician/Data Scientist

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.

Common Employers

Here are the employers that have posted the most Biostatistician jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

United States

Johnson & Johnson (104)
Edwards Lifesciences (99)
Actalent (78)
Elevance Health (69)
Sanofi (50)
Amentum (47)
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine (36)
University of Utah (32)
Namsa (31)
Stanford University (31)

North Carolina

Duke University (21)
IQVIA (18)
Thermo Fisher Scientific (9)
Pharpoint Research (8)
University of North Carolina (7)
Actalent (6)
Life Technologies (6)
Heitech Services (5)
Atrium Health (4)
Research Triangle Institute (4)

NC State Programs Relevant to this Career

If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!

All wages, job posting statistics, employment trend projections, and information about skill desirability on this page represents historical data and does not guarantee future conditions. Data is provided by and downloaded regularly from Lightcast. For more information about how Lightcast gathers data and what it represents, see Lightcast Data: Basic Overview on Lightcast's Knowledge Base website.

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