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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 544 510 570
Rank change year-on-year -34 +60 +214
Contract jobs citing FHIR 47 31 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.091% 0.061%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.41% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 16
10th Percentile £343 £161 £201
25th Percentile £424 £167 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £538
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £553 £358 £600
90th Percentile £602 £464 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £198 £600
% change year-on-year +153.16% -67.08% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
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 8,270 7,470 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.43% 21.92% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 4,753 6,888
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 96 174
10th Percentile £30.85 £21.63 £32.90
25th Percentile £43.00 £36.31 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £74.93 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -1.54% +25.26% -20.17%

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 20 December 2025.

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 12 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 20 December 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 -13 38 £500 +77.78% 19
UK excluding London -31 21 £500 +153.16% 13
London +13 18 £523 +44.14% 8
North of England -35 14 £500 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire -38 13 £500 -9.09% 4
Work from Home -8 8 £375 +87.50% 8
East Midlands - 4 £399 - 2
Midlands - 4 £399 - 2
Wales -11 1 £450 +146.38%
South West - 1 £222 -
North West - 1 £500 - 4
East of England - 1 - - 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 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (2.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (40.43%) Azure
2 8 (17.02%) AWS
3 7 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.77%) Serverless
5 5 (10.64%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) Azure AKS
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Functions
6 4 (8.51%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.26%) Google Play
7 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.13%) Lucidchart
8 1 (2.13%) Miro
8 1 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.26%) EDMS
2 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) Metadata
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Android Studio
1 3 (6.38%) Gradle
2 2 (4.26%) GitLab
2 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (4.26%) Xcode
3 1 (2.13%) Postman
3 1 (2.13%) Selenium
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 18 (38.30%) Public Sector
3 11 (23.40%) Health Technology
4 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Digital Health
6 3 (6.38%) Digital Healthcare
6 3 (6.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Electronics
8 1 (2.13%) Finance
8 1 (2.13%) German Language
8 1 (2.13%) Local Government
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
2 6 (12.77%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Lead
3 5 (10.64%) .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Integration Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Digital Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Mobile Developer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Android Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Workstream Lead
6 2 (4.26%) C# Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) iOS Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) .NET
1 12 (25.53%) RESTful
2 6 (12.77%) React
3 5 (10.64%) .NET Core
4 3 (6.38%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (6.38%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (6.38%) Kafka
4 3 (6.38%) Spring
4 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.26%) OpenAPI
5 2 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.26%) REST
5 2 (4.26%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (4.26%) Swagger
5 2 (4.26%) SwiftUI
6 1 (2.13%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.13%) JSON
6 1 (2.13%) PySpark
6 1 (2.13%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (61.70%) NHS
2 5 (10.64%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Life Science
5 2 (4.26%) LIMS
5 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) PACS
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Android
2 2 (4.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) CI/CD
2 16 (34.04%) Agile
2 16 (34.04%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) Microservices
3 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (23.40%) Analytics
5 9 (19.15%) Clean Code
5 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
5 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (17.02%) Containerisation
6 8 (17.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (14.89%) Data Governance
7 7 (14.89%) Data Integration
7 7 (14.89%) SOLID
8 6 (12.77%) Design Patterns
8 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (10.64%) Event-Driven
9 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (10.64%) Push Notifications
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) SQL
2 8 (17.02%) C#
3 7 (14.89%) Python
4 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.51%) Java
6 3 (6.38%) Kotlin
6 3 (6.38%) R
7 2 (4.26%) Swift
8 1 (2.13%) Bicep
8 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
8 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) ISTQB
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) IIBA
2 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.13%) PMP
2 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (61.70%) HL7
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.51%) SNOMED CT
3 3 (6.38%) DICOM
4 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.26%) GDPR
5 1 (2.13%) GxP
5 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.13%) LOINC
5 1 (2.13%) PMO
5 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Terraform
2 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Brio
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.51%) Cerner
2 4 (8.51%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Apple
4 1 (2.13%) Ariba
4 1 (2.13%) HP
4 1 (2.13%) Infor
4 1 (2.13%) MEDITECH
4 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.13%) RedGate