FHIR Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring FHIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing FHIR 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.43% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 10.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £499 - -
25th Percentile £545 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 - -
75th Percentile £682 - -
90th Percentile £690 - -
South West median daily rate £570 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 38 16 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 13.62% 13.33% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 25
10th Percentile £380 £378 £345
25th Percentile £408 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £618 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.60% +37.22% -22.35%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £625
90th Percentile £683 £658 £741
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

FHIR job vacancy trend in Somerset

FHIR
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing FHIR

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR in Somerset over the 6 months to 13 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in Somerset

FHIR
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FHIR within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 13 March 2026. 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
Bath - 4 £611 - 5
FHIR
South West

FHIR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Healthcare
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Military
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Healthcare Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Healthcare Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) NHS
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Informatics
3 1 (25.00%) Practice Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CBAP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) HL7
2 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (25.00%) DICOM
3 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) InterSystems
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft