FHIR Contract Job Trends

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FHIR skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 533 546
Rank change year-on-year -92 +13 +84
Contract jobs citing FHIR 53 24 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.074% 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 0.29% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 13 10
10th Percentile £362 £189 £161
25th Percentile £400 £350 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £276
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +76.77% -44.85%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £430
90th Percentile £650 £790 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £375 £168
% change year-on-year +33.33% +123.49% -72.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £25.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £25.60

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 11,783 8,312 9,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.65% 25.61% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,748 5,566 6,315
10th Percentile £375 £353 £356
25th Percentile £435 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £634 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 180 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.20 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.00 £41.13 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.20 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +4.00%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FHIR job vacancy trend in the UK

FHIR
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FHIR.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FHIR

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FHIR.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FHIR

FHIR
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 FHIR within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 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 -103 38 £500 +17.65% 48
UK excluding London -95 23 £500 +33.33% 23
Work from Home -54 20 £435 +16.00% 16
London -81 16 £524 +10.26% 31
Yorkshire -23 12 £500 +2.04% 1
North of England -61 12 £500 +2.04% 1
South West -46 4 £562 +153.15% 2
Scotland -16 2 £650 +33.33% 1
Midlands - 2 £450 - 5
Channel Islands - 2 £575 -
East of England - 1 £550 - 8
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £400 - 1

FHIR
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 3 (5.66%) Confluence
1 3 (5.66%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.89%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.53%) AWS
2 7 (13.21%) Azure
3 6 (11.32%) Amazon S3
3 6 (11.32%) GitHub
3 6 (11.32%) Serverless
4 5 (9.43%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.66%) Apigee
6 3 (5.66%) iPaaS
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.77%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.89%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) HTTP
1 1 (1.89%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.98%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (7.55%) Metadata
2 4 (7.55%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.77%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.89%) Redis
5 1 (1.89%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
1 4 (7.55%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 14 (26.42%) Public Sector
3 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.43%) Digital Health
5 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Local Government
5 2 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.89%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) Architect
2 12 (22.64%) Developer
3 10 (18.87%) Integration Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Data Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Business Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Salesforce Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Lead Architect
7 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Integration Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Palantir Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Business IT Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.77%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.53%) REST
2 10 (18.87%) JSON
2 10 (18.87%) RESTful
3 7 (13.21%) SOAP
3 7 (13.21%) Web Services
4 6 (11.32%) Terraform
5 5 (9.43%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (9.43%) XML
6 4 (7.55%) Middleware
7 3 (5.66%) .NET
7 3 (5.66%) React
8 2 (3.77%) OAuth
8 2 (3.77%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.77%) OpenID
9 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.89%) CSS
9 1 (1.89%) Flask
9 1 (1.89%) jQuery
9 1 (1.89%) Kafka
9 1 (1.89%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 23 (43.40%) NHS
2 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.77%) IoT
5 2 (3.77%) Life Science
5 2 (3.77%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.89%) LIMS
6 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) PACS
6 1 (1.89%) Replication
6 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) Data Modelling
2 19 (35.85%) Agile
3 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 11 (20.75%) Data Mapping
5 10 (18.87%) DevOps
5 10 (18.87%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (16.98%) Data Architecture
6 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (15.09%) Microservices
7 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
8 7 (13.21%) Data Management
8 7 (13.21%) ETL
8 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (11.32%) Architectural Patterns
9 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.32%) Data Protection
9 6 (11.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 6 (11.32%) TOGAF
9 6 (11.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.43%) JavaScript
1 5 (9.43%) Python
2 4 (7.55%) Apex Code
2 4 (7.55%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.66%) C#
3 3 (5.66%) SQL
4 2 (3.77%) Bash
4 2 (3.77%) Tcl
5 1 (1.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) SC Cleared
1 8 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.77%) CSPO
4 1 (1.89%) CBAP
4 1 (1.89%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (77.36%) HL7
2 9 (16.98%) SNOMED CT
3 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
4 5 (9.43%) DICOM
5 4 (7.55%) GDPR
6 2 (3.77%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (3.77%) EU AI Act
6 2 (3.77%) GxP
6 2 (3.77%) IEC 62304
6 2 (3.77%) ISO 13485
6 2 (3.77%) PMO
6 2 (3.77%) QA
7 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.66%) Foundry
2 3 (5.66%) Infor
2 3 (5.66%) InterSystems
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.66%) Palantir
3 1 (1.89%) Brio
3 1 (1.89%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.89%) Remedy
3 1 (1.89%) Splunk