FHIR Contracts

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 588 667
Rank change year-on-year +95 +79 +155
Contract jobs citing FHIR 26 12 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.028% 0.077%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.13% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 31
10th Percentile £198 £406 £260
25th Percentile £367 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £431 £435
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.61%
75th Percentile £547 £531 £519
90th Percentile £775 £553 £549
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £469 £512
% change year-on-year -20.00% -8.49% +1.19%

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 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FHIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FHIR.

Daily rate trend for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FHIR.

Hourly rate trend for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +76 17 £455 +7.06% 23
Work from Home +59 13 £431 - 24
London +43 12 £450 +5.88% 12
UK excluding London +55 8 £375 -20.00% 13
Wales +1 3 £198 -57.87% 1
Yorkshire - 2 £525 -
Midlands - 2 £433 -
North of England - 2 £525 - 2
South East - 1 £350 - 8
West Midlands - 1 £465 -

FHIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Electronic Patient Records
1 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Power BI
3 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) ERwin
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (7.69%) tSQLt
2 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Health
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Modeller
5 2 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) NHS DBA
6 1 (3.85%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) XML
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) JSON
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
3 2 (7.69%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
4 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (3.85%) ebXML
4 1 (3.85%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.85%) SOAP
4 1 (3.85%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) NHS
2 5 (19.23%) PACS
3 2 (7.69%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) LIMS
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Data Integration
2 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
3 5 (19.23%) Data Governance
3 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
4 4 (15.38%) ETL
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
4 4 (15.38%) Validation
5 3 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (11.54%) Data Mapping
5 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.69%) Data Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (50.00%) HL7
2 6 (23.08%) DICOM
3 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (15.38%) GDPR
4 2 (7.69%) HIPAA
4 2 (7.69%) QA
5 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.85%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) RedGate
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media