Electronic Patient Records Contract Job Trends

Electronic Patient/Health/Medical Records (EPR, EHR, EMR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Electronic Patient Records skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 520 542
Rank change year-on-year -123 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing Electronic Patient Records 42 38 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.11% 0.053%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.52% 0.63% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 10
10th Percentile £353 £159 £193
25th Percentile £406 £350 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £581
90th Percentile £550 £659 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £408 £320
% change year-on-year +4.29% +27.34% +24.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £14.88 - -
25th Percentile £15.81 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £18.25 £27.50 £30.21
Median % change year-on-year -33.64% -8.97% +32.79%
75th Percentile £21.31 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £22.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.50 £27.50 £30.21
% change year-on-year -47.27% -8.97% +32.79%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Electronic Patient Records falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8,099 6,018 6,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.86% 18.14% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,397 4,029 4,610
10th Percentile £356 £340 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 81 92
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.25 £29.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £38.96 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.24% +11.31% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.13 £64.50 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.53% +18.30% -42.86%

Electronic Patient Records
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Electronic Patient Records relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Electronic Patient Records job vacancy trend in the UK

Electronic Patient Records
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronic Patient Records.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronic Patient Records

Electronic Patient Records
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Electronic Patient Records over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Electronic Patient Records in the UK

Electronic Patient Records
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronic Patient Records.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Electronic Patient Records

Electronic Patient Records
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Electronic Patient Records within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -107 35 £450 +8.11% 219
Work from Home -56 21 £500 -13.04% 61
UK excluding London -92 17 £425 +4.29% 126
London -91 16 £492 -6.24% 97
North of England -61 9 £425 +174.19% 25
Yorkshire -32 7 £450 +190.32% 8
Midlands - 4 £375 - 28
South West -29 2 £475 +113.96% 11
South East -60 2 £425 -29.17% 31
West Midlands - 2 £463 - 23
East Midlands - 2 £300 - 5
North West -50 1 £425 - 16
North East - 1 £308 - 1

Electronic Patient Records
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (14.29%) Apache
2 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.76%) Jupyter
5 1 (2.38%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Lorenzo
1 3 (7.14%) SystmOne
2 2 (4.76%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) AWS
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon EMR
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon S3
3 6 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (9.52%) Azure
6 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.14%) Serverless
7 2 (4.76%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Run
7 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.76%) Textract
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
1 4 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.52%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.38%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.38%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.38%) Metadata
3 1 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (4.76%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Digital Health
4 2 (4.76%) Health Technology
4 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Business Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
3 5 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Test Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) NHS Project Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) PMO Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Configuration Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) PySpark
3 5 (11.90%) FHIR
4 2 (4.76%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.76%) Google JAX
4 2 (4.76%) JAX
4 2 (4.76%) PyTorch
4 2 (4.76%) RESTful
4 2 (4.76%) TensorFlow
4 2 (4.76%) Web Services
5 1 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (2.38%) Middleware
5 1 (2.38%) OAuth
5 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (52.38%) NHS
2 6 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Genomics
4 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.76%) Molecular Biology
4 2 (4.76%) SystemC
5 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Agile
2 11 (26.19%) CI/CD
3 9 (21.43%) DevOps
3 9 (21.43%) Information Governance
3 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (21.43%) Migration
4 8 (19.05%) Analytics
4 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (19.05%) Workflow
5 7 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (14.29%) AI
6 6 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (14.29%) Observability
6 6 (14.29%) Release Management
6 6 (14.29%) Validation
7 5 (11.90%) Data Engineering
7 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
7 5 (11.90%) Programme Governance
7 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (2.38%) Bash
3 1 (2.38%) Bicep
3 1 (2.38%) Java
3 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
1 5 (11.90%) HL7
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 3 (7.14%) PMO
4 2 (4.76%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (2.38%) GDPR
5 1 (2.38%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Cerner
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Google
2 2 (4.76%) MEDITECH
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Databricks
3 1 (2.38%) Foundry
3 1 (2.38%) Infor
3 1 (2.38%) Informatica
3 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.38%) Palantir