Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring FHIR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited FHIR over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 670 884 936
Rank change year-on-year +214 +52 +244
Permanent jobs citing FHIR 32 23 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.022% 0.033%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.33% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 26 23 19
10th Percentile £48,125 £42,748 -
25th Percentile £50,625 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +20.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £83,750 - £66,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -9.32%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing FHIR.

Salary trend for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FHIR over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing FHIR within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +185 25 £70,000 +21.74% 15
UK excluding London +190 16 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Work from Home +121 14 £55,000 -26.67% 14
South East - 10 £70,000 - 3
London +110 7 £76,250 -14.08% 10
North of England +41 5 - - 1
North West +5 5 - -
East of England +49 1 £75,000 +40.18%

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Lorenzo
1 1 (3.13%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) Electronic Patient Records
1 13 (40.63%) Relational Database
2 8 (25.00%) MySQL
3 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Moq
1 8 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (3.13%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 16 (50.00%) Health Technology
2 13 (40.63%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (18.75%) Digital Healthcare
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.50%) Marketing
5 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Games
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Integration Specialist
1 10 (31.25%) Lead
2 7 (21.88%) Software Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Digital Analyst
4 5 (15.63%) Integration Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Consultant
5 4 (12.50%) Product Manager
5 4 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) EPR Consultant
7 2 (6.25%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) C# Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Healthcare Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) .NET
1 8 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 8 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 8 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 8 (25.00%) OAuth
1 8 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 8 (25.00%) REST
2 6 (18.75%) Swagger
3 5 (15.63%) JSON
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (46.88%) NHS
2 5 (15.63%) LIMS
3 3 (9.38%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.25%) PACS
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) API Integration
2 9 (28.13%) Data Security
3 8 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 8 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 8 (25.00%) DevOps
3 8 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 8 (25.00%) Microservices
3 8 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
5 6 (18.75%) API Design
5 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (15.63%) User Experience
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.50%) Design Thinking
7 4 (12.50%) Product Management
7 4 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Python
1 10 (31.25%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) C#
2 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) C
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Degree
2 8 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (18.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (59.38%) HL7
2 10 (31.25%) SNOMED CT
3 8 (25.00%) QA
4 6 (18.75%) CDISC
5 4 (12.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (12.50%) Good Clinical Practice
6 3 (9.38%) DICOM
7 2 (6.25%) GDPR
8 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Cerner
1 1 (3.13%) Foundry
1 1 (3.13%) Google
1 1 (3.13%) InterSystems
1 1 (3.13%) MEDITECH
1 1 (3.13%) Palantir