Healthcare Analyst

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

A Healthcare Analyst is responsible for compiling important medical data through the use of computer-based applications, within a health care organization or hospital. Responsible for gathering, compiling, modeling, validating, and analyzing data needed by the organization.

Job Outlook

There were 261 Healthcare Analyst job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 8721 in the United States.

In combination with other careers in the Clinical Analyst / Clinical Documentation and Improvement Specialist industry, which includes the Healthcare Analyst career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2015:

Salary

Many new Healthcare Analyst 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 $101,458.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $107,660.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for Healthcare Analyst postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $70,579.

Education and Experience

Posted Healthcare Analyst 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	4.99%
Bachelor's Degree	59.99%
Master's Degree	24.18%
Doctoral Degree	3.85%
Other	7.59%

Posted Healthcare Analyst 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	30.79%
3 to 5 years	50.2%
6 to 8 years	13.19%
9+ years	5.82%

Skills

Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills Healthcare Analyst 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.

Communication (33.85%)
Management (27.94%)
Research (25.66%)
Leadership (23.19%)
Microsoft Excel (22.77%)
Writing (20.23%)
Problem Solving (19.76%)
Operations (17.26%)
Mathematics (16.99%)
Presentations (14.12%)

Defining Skills

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

Data Analysis (45.37%)

Necessary Skills

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

Business Requirements (10.57%)
SQL (Programming Language) (41.77%)
Computer Science (16.35%)
Advanced Analytics (11.59%)
Quantitative Analysis (10.37%)
Power BI (16.63%)
Public Health (11.66%)
Data Science (12.11%)
Electronic Medical Record (15.3%)
Data Management (13.76%)
Relational Databases (10.13%)
Data Visualization (11.59%)
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (23.4%)
Business Intelligence (12.11%)
Statistics (22.99%)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (4.94%)
Auditing (8.94%)
Data Quality (8.65%)
Statistical Modeling (10.87%)
Epidemiology (10.09%)
Python (Programming Language) (19.31%)
Project Management (22.74%)
Finance (20.87%)
Economics (16.65%)
Dashboard (13.52%)
Data Mining (11.33%)
Workflow Management (16.41%)
Healthcare Industry Knowledge (25.84%)
R (Programming Language) (14.87%)
SAS (Software) (22.19%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

Healthcare Analytics (8.16%)

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.

Healthcare Analytics (100%)

Alternative Job Titles

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

Healthcare Data Analyst
Healthcare Business Analyst
Analytics Analyst
Ambulatory Analyst
Analyst
Advanced Analytics Analyst
IT Analyst
Analytics Manager
Hospitalist

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 Healthcare Analyst jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

United States

Health Services Advisory Group (445)
Centene (322)
Beacon Hill Staffing Group (242)
CTG (172)
GE Healthcare (142)
UnitedHealth Group (129)
Prime Therapeutics (117)
Elevance Health (98)
Albany Medical Center (89)
Sentara Healthcare (80)

North Carolina

Duke University (15)
Centene (10)
Innosoul (7)
CTG (6)
LRS Healthcare (6)
Fifth Third Bank (6)
Health Services Advisory Group (6)
Novant Health (5)
Ameriprise Financial (5)
Synchrony (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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