FHIR Job Trends

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring FHIR skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 660 698
Rank change year-on-year +58 +38 +300
Permanent jobs citing FHIR 51 39 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.073% 0.041%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.34% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 40 13 23
10th Percentile £55,000 £59,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £56,250 - £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +40.00% -5.21%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £63,288
90th Percentile £80,000 - £68,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -0.99%

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 7,080 11,547 13,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.80% 21.58% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,272 6,787 11,241
10th Percentile £35,760 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £109,875 £109,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500

FHIR
Job Vacancy Trend

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

FHIR job vacancy trend in the UK

FHIR
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FHIR.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FHIR

FHIR
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing FHIR over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
England +67 31 £61,250 - 11
UK excluding London +47 14 £55,000 - 5
London +65 13 £61,250 - 5
South East +43 10 - - 1
Work from Home +67 5 £55,000 - 5
North of England +9 3 £55,000 - 3
North West - 3 £55,000 - 1
Wales - 1 £42,000 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (9.80%) AWS
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.92%) Azure
3 2 (3.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.96%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) VPN
2 6 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (52.94%) Electronic Patient Records
2 14 (27.45%) MySQL
3 10 (19.61%) Data Lake
3 10 (19.61%) Metadata
4 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (1.96%) Android Studio
2 1 (1.96%) Moq
General
1 33 (64.71%) Health Technology
2 15 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 13 (25.49%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Digital Health
4 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.96%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Consultant
1 11 (21.57%) EPR Consultant
1 11 (21.57%) Lead
2 10 (19.61%) Technical Consultant
3 7 (13.73%) Configuration Manager
3 7 (13.73%) Delivery Manager
3 7 (13.73%) Integration Manager
4 6 (11.76%) Integration Specialist
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Digital Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Integration Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) .NET Developer
6 1 (1.96%) C# Developer
6 1 (1.96%) Lead C# Developer
6 1 (1.96%) Lead Developer
6 1 (1.96%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.96%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (1.96%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) JSON
2 7 (13.73%) XML
3 4 (7.84%) .NET
4 3 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (1.96%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.96%) Bootstrap
5 1 (1.96%) CSS
5 1 (1.96%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.96%) HTML
5 1 (1.96%) HTML5
5 1 (1.96%) jQuery
5 1 (1.96%) LINQ
5 1 (1.96%) Middleware
5 1 (1.96%) OAuth
5 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.96%) OpenID
5 1 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (49.02%) NHS
2 11 (21.57%) Linux Command Line
3 10 (19.61%) Algorithms
3 10 (19.61%) Life Science
3 10 (19.61%) Omics
4 2 (3.92%) LIMS
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
2 1 (1.96%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Project Delivery
2 11 (21.57%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (21.57%) Computer Science
2 11 (21.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (19.61%) AI
3 10 (19.61%) Analytics
3 10 (19.61%) Bioinformatics
3 10 (19.61%) Data Architecture
3 10 (19.61%) Data Governance
3 10 (19.61%) Data Science
3 10 (19.61%) Data Strategy
3 10 (19.61%) Decision-Making
3 10 (19.61%) Hematology
3 10 (19.61%) Immunology
3 10 (19.61%) Machine Learning
3 10 (19.61%) Metadata Management
3 10 (19.61%) Ontologies
3 10 (19.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 10 (19.61%) Statistics
4 8 (15.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (41.18%) SQL
2 15 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 4 (7.84%) C#
4 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.96%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Degree
2 10 (19.61%) PhD
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (98.04%) HL7
2 10 (19.61%) Accessibility
2 10 (19.61%) CDISC
2 10 (19.61%) GxP
3 6 (11.76%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (1.96%) DICOM
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 1 (1.96%) Cerner
1 1 (1.96%) InterSystems
1 1 (1.96%) MEDITECH