FHIR Contracts in the UK excluding London

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 386 422
Rank change year-on-year +54 +36 +65
Contract jobs citing FHIR 7 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.039% 0.099%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.29% 0.25% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile £277 - £205
25th Percentile £375 £413 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -2.39% +1.19%
75th Percentile £483 £531 £547
90th Percentile £520 - £549
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% -15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,374 3,244 4,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.37% 16.01% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,127 3,158
10th Percentile £325 £323 £356
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 213 87
10th Percentile £35.08 £21.88 £22.20
25th Percentile £56.03 £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 £69.06 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.49 £79.19
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing FHIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for FHIR in the UK excluding London

FHIR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FHIR in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for FHIR in the UK excluding London

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in the UK excluding London

FHIR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FHIR in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for FHIR in the UK excluding London

FHIR
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FHIR within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
North of England +22 2 £525 +5.00% 1
Yorkshire +15 2 £525 +5.00% 1
Midlands - 2 £433 -
South East - 2 £375 - 15
Wales -4 1 £167 -64.36% 5
West Midlands - 1 £465 -
FHIR
UK

FHIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (28.57%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) WhatsApp
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure App Service
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) ERwin
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Digital Health
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (14.29%) Express.js
1 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
1 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
1 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
1 1 (14.29%) LangChain
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) NHS
2 2 (28.57%) PACS
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) LIMS
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Conversational UI
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) LLM
1 2 (28.57%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) Conversational AI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Collection
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (14.29%) MLOps
2 1 (14.29%) Observability
2 1 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) HL7
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) DICOM
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) RedGate
2 1 (14.29%) SAP