FHIR Contract Job Trends in the North West

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring FHIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 - 140
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FHIR 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% - 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £500 £281 £600
% change year-on-year +77.78% -53.13% +3.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 510 349 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.75% 16.30% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 227 448
10th Percentile £325 £354 £366
25th Percentile £380 £401 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £664 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 31
10th Percentile £50.25 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.74% -19.70%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

FHIR job vacancy trend in the North West

FHIR
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Manchester - 1 £500 - 5
FHIR
England

FHIR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) HL7