FHIR Contract Job Trends in England

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring FHIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 494 544
Rank change year-on-year -10 +50 +191
Contract jobs citing FHIR 38 10 19
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.035% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 12
10th Percentile £343 £161 £316
25th Percentile £409 £181 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £281 £600
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -53.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £553 £393 -
90th Percentile £595 £491 £614
UK median daily rate £500 £200 £538
% change year-on-year +150.00% -62.79% -4.44%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

FHIR falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,961 6,325 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 21.83% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,644 4,051 5,940
10th Percentile £351 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £770
UK median daily rate £505 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -7.68% -0.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 81 167
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.80
25th Percentile £43.75 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FHIR relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

FHIR job vacancy trend in England

FHIR
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FHIR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FHIR

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR in England over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in England

FHIR
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FHIR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FHIR

FHIR
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FHIR within the England region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +12 18 £523 +44.14% 8
North of England -38 14 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire -29 13 £500 -9.09% 3
East Midlands - 4 £399 - 1
Midlands - 4 £399 - 1
North West - 1 £500 - 5
South West - 1 £222 -
East of England - 1 - - 3
FHIR
UK

FHIR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (15.79%) Serverless
4 5 (13.16%) GCP
5 4 (10.53%) Azure AKS
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Functions
5 4 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.26%) Google Play
6 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.63%) Miro
7 1 (2.63%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.26%) EDMS
2 2 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) Metadata
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Android Studio
1 3 (7.89%) Gradle
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (5.26%) Xcode
3 1 (2.63%) Postman
3 1 (2.63%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 16 (42.11%) Public Sector
3 11 (28.95%) Health Technology
4 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Digital Health
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Electronics
7 1 (2.63%) Finance
7 1 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Developer
2 5 (13.16%) .NET Software Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Analyst
2 5 (13.16%) Integration Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Digital Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Mobile Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Senior
4 3 (7.89%) Android Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Workstream Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Applications Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) iOS Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Mobile Applications Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) RESTful
2 10 (26.32%) .NET
3 6 (15.79%) React
4 5 (13.16%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.89%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (7.89%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.26%) Kafka
6 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
6 2 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.26%) Spring
6 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Swagger
6 2 (5.26%) SwiftUI
7 1 (2.63%) JSON
7 1 (2.63%) ODBC
7 1 (2.63%) Web Services
7 1 (2.63%) XML
7 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 25 (65.79%) NHS
2 5 (13.16%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Genomics
5 1 (2.63%) Life Science
5 1 (2.63%) LIMS
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Android
2 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) CI/CD
2 16 (42.11%) Agile
2 16 (42.11%) DevOps
3 11 (28.95%) Analytics
3 11 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (26.32%) Microservices
5 9 (23.68%) Clean Code
5 9 (23.68%) Data Modelling
6 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
6 7 (18.42%) Data Integration
6 7 (18.42%) SOLID
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.79%) Design Patterns
7 6 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (13.16%) Information Governance
8 5 (13.16%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) SQL
2 7 (18.42%) Python
3 6 (15.79%) C#
4 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 3 (7.89%) Java
5 3 (7.89%) Kotlin
5 3 (7.89%) R
6 2 (5.26%) Swift
7 1 (2.63%) Bicep
7 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.63%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
1 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) IIBA
2 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (57.89%) HL7
2 4 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 3 (7.89%) DICOM
3 3 (7.89%) SNOMED CT
4 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.26%) GDPR
5 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.63%) LOINC
5 1 (2.63%) PMO
5 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.05%) Terraform
2 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Brio
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Google
3 3 (7.89%) Cerner
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Apple
5 1 (2.63%) HP
5 1 (2.63%) Infor
5 1 (2.63%) MEDITECH
5 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.63%) RedGate
5 1 (2.63%) SAP