FHIR Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring FHIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 -
Contract jobs citing FHIR 2 13 4
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.60% 3.48% 0.99%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 15.66% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £206 £161 £163
25th Percentile £242 £161 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £183 £178
Median % change year-on-year +73.15% +2.90% -
75th Percentile £402 £211 £188
90th Percentile £446 £217 £194
Wales median daily rate £316 £198 £178
% change year-on-year +60.13% +11.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.60 -
Wales median hourly rate - £25.60 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 64 83 79
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 19.22% 22.19% 19.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 66
10th Percentile £304 £197 £207
25th Percentile £398 £238 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £488 £369
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +32.20% -29.76%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £534
90th Percentile £714 - £588
Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -5.00% +25.00% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 0
10th Percentile £78.25 - -
25th Percentile £79.38 £20.12 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +275.00% - -
75th Percentile £84.38 £25.44 -
90th Percentile £84.75 £25.60 -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +263.64% - -

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

FHIR job vacancy trend in South Wales

FHIR
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing FHIR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing FHIR

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR in South Wales over the 6 months to 9 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in South Wales

FHIR
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FHIR within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
Cardiff -11 2 £316 +73.15% 1
FHIR
Wales

FHIR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) RedGate