FHIR Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring FHIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 189 163 183
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 +59
Contract jobs citing FHIR 14 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.30% 0.056% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.37% 0.31% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 7
10th Percentile - - £585
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £518 - £606
England median daily rate £500 £281 £600
% change year-on-year +77.78% -53.13% +3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,023 643 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 21.65% 18.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 408 764
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £400 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.49% -6.51%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 11 37
10th Percentile £49.90 £26.50 £42.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +41.84% -5.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £92.07 £62.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £102.00 £69.25
England median hourly rate £58.00 £63.75 £51.89
% change year-on-year -9.02% +22.86% -20.17%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

FHIR job vacancy trend in the North of England

FHIR
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing FHIR

FHIR
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Yorkshire -33 13 £500 -9.09% 4
North West - 1 £500 - 4
FHIR
England

FHIR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Serverless
3 4 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Functions
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 8 (57.14%) Health Technology
2 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Digital Health
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (7.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) .NET Software Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manual Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 6 (42.86%) React
3 5 (35.71%) .NET Core
4 4 (28.57%) RESTful
5 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) NHS
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Microservices
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Data Integration
5 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
5 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
6 4 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) Service Design
8 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
1 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) HL7
2 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Brio
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
4 1 (7.14%) Infor