FHIR Job Trends in Scotland

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring FHIR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 - 233
Rank change year-on-year - - -60
Permanent jobs citing FHIR 2 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.059% - 0.076%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.82% - 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% +25.00% +20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

FHIR falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 243 431 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.12% 17.10% 28.73%
Number of salaries quoted 163 157 509
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £37,605
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -
75th Percentile £72,375 £84,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,474 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.76% -8.89%

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

FHIR job vacancy trend in Scotland

FHIR
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing FHIR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing FHIR

FHIR
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FHIR within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 2 £85,000 - 1
FHIR
UK

FHIR
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Health
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) Biomedicine
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (100.00%) Business Case
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) DICOM
1 2 (100.00%) HL7