FHIR Contracts in England

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring FHIR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FHIR over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 533 625
Rank change year-on-year +75 +92 +131
Contract jobs citing FHIR 17 4 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.069% 0.011% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.053% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile £354 - -
25th Percentile £400 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £456 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +10.61% -10.81%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £451
90th Percentile £650 £675 £480
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -15.00%

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 5,454 7,487 11,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.28% 20.58% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,778 5,310 8,226
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -1.32%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £799 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 231 132
10th Percentile £32.65 £22.50 £26.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £66.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £75.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing FHIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for FHIR in England

FHIR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FHIR in England.

Daily rate trend for FHIR in England

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in England

FHIR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FHIR in England.

Hourly rate trend for FHIR in England

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 17 May 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 +44 11 £450 +9.09% 10
North of England +20 2 £525 +5.00%
Yorkshire +15 2 £525 +5.00%
Midlands - 2 £433 -
South East - 2 £375 - 9
West Midlands - 1 £465 -
FHIR
UK

FHIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) WhatsApp
3 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
3 1 (5.88%) Azure App Service
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.88%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (17.65%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) ERwin
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.88%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Health
4 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Data Modeller
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
3 1 (5.88%) DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) XML
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) ebXML
3 1 (5.88%) Express.js
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.88%) LangChain
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) NHS
2 5 (29.41%) PACS
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) LIMS
3 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
1 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
2 4 (23.53%) Regulatory Compliance
2 4 (23.53%) Validation
3 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
3 3 (17.65%) ETL
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
4 2 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (11.76%) Data Sharing
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
1 1 (5.88%) PMP
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) HL7
2 5 (29.41%) DICOM
3 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
4 3 (17.65%) GDPR
5 2 (11.76%) HIPAA
5 2 (11.76%) QA
6 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (5.88%) SLA
6 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.88%) RedGate