Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FHIR skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FHIR over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 660 806
Rank change year-on-year +90 +146 -147
Contract jobs citing FHIR 12 43 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.074% 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.32% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 20
10th Percentile £406 £250 £348
25th Percentile £413 £406 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £481
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -11.69% -12.50%
75th Percentile £531 £525 £538
90th Percentile £553 £549 £554
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £512 £506
% change year-on-year -2.39% +1.19% -10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FHIR is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,918 13,466 23,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.74% 23.26% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,815 17,345
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 155 245
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.30 £23.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.85 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -26.36% +25.24% +14.44%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FHIR.

Daily rate trend for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FHIR over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing FHIR.

Hourly rate trend for FHIR in the UK

FHIR
Top 7 Contract 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 10 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London +42 8 £500 -2.39% 4
Wales +10 7 £469 -10.67% 1
England +74 4 £456 +10.61% 10
Work from Home +97 3 £425 +3.03% 3
London +82 3 £413 - 7
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 2
North of England - 1 £500 - 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Apache
2 2 (16.67%) Confluence
3 1 (8.33%) CMS
3 1 (8.33%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) JMeter
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Architect
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Digital Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) React Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) NHS
2 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (16.67%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Clustering
4 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) API Testing
2 2 (16.67%) BDD
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (16.67%) Health Informatics
2 2 (16.67%) Informatics
2 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (16.67%) SOA
2 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (16.67%) TDD
2 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (8.33%) High Availability
3 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
1 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) HL7
2 3 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) DICOM
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) RedGate
2 1 (8.33%) Sitecore