FHIR Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 341 451
Rank change year-on-year +50 +110 +163
Contract jobs citing FHIR 13 4 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.026% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.11% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 21
10th Percentile £208 £413 £380
25th Percentile £363 £414 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £431 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £452 £525
90th Percentile £800 £454 £549
UK median daily rate £450 £431 £435
% change year-on-year +4.35% -0.86% -9.61%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

FHIR
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FHIR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FHIR trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FHIR
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FHIR.

FHIR daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing FHIR over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

FHIR daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

FHIR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ERwin
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (7.69%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (15.38%) PACS
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) LIMS
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
1 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Data Mapping
3 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Machine Learning
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
4 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
4 1 (7.69%) High Availability
4 1 (7.69%) Migration
4 1 (7.69%) OO
4 1 (7.69%) OOD
4 1 (7.69%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Scala
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) HL7
2 2 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) DICOM
3 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
2 1 (7.69%) RedGate
2 1 (7.69%) SAP