Healthcare & Life Sciences Career Guide
Health Data Analyst
Health data analysts work across hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, contract research organisations (CROs) and health technology companies — turning clinical, operational and commercial data into decisions. In Pune and Ahmedabad this is a well-established job market, driven by pharma and the growing health IT sector.
Salary Ranges in India
₹3.5–6 LPA
Fresher (0–2 yrs)
₹7–12 LPA
Mid-level (3–6 yrs)
₹13–22 LPA
Senior (7+ yrs)
Honest note
Entry-level health data roles at CROs and pharma companies in Pune pay modestly relative to product tech companies. The regulatory compliance overhead is significant — expect to spend meaningful time on documentation and process. The upside is genuine career stability and transferable skills: clinical data managers are in demand globally.
What the job actually involves
- 1Cleaning and analysing clinical trial datasets in tools like SAS, R or Python
- 2Building hospital operations dashboards — bed management, OPD throughput, clinical quality indicators
- 3Preparing regulatory data submissions for CDSCO or international agencies following CDISC standards
- 4Working with pharmacovigilance teams on adverse event data and signal detection
- 5Maintaining data quality throughout the trial lifecycle — edit checks, queries, database lock procedures
- 6Presenting findings to clinical leadership and regulatory teams
Skills employers look for
Who hires for this role
How to get there
The most direct path to this role through Felix ITs:
Health Data & Clinical Analytics
Built on our Data Analytics practice — applied to clinical, pharma and health operations data
10w · 120h
₹30K
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