Global Healthcare Industry
Freelancing Survey
The first in-depth international survey devoted entirely to freelancing in the healthcare industry. Over 1,000 respondents — on one side the managers who bring in external experts, on the other the independent experts themselves — on why the model is growing, how it is actually used, and what it costs.
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Four Findings That Changed the Conversation
Freelancing in healthcare is no longer a stopgap for unfilled headcount. It has become a deliberate way of accessing seniority — and the managers already doing it are not going back.
Figures from our own international survey. The full report breaks each of them down by function, seniority and geography.
Both Sides of the Same Market
Two questionnaires, one study. We asked the managers who hire and the experts who are hired the same questions from opposite sides, then put the answers next to each other.
The managers' side
How healthcare teams actually use external experts — not how they say they intend to.
- Which functions call on freelancers, and which never do
- What triggers the decision: a peak, a gap, a skill nobody has internally
- Mission length, engagement model, and what makes a manager come back
The experts' side
Who these independents are, and why an industry that trained them no longer employs them.
- Seniority, previous employers and the year they went independent
- Why they left the payroll — and what would bring them back, if anything
- What they look for in a mission, and what they refuse outright
Rates and practices
The part everyone asks for first: what the market actually pays, and how deals are structured.
- Daily-rate ranges by function, seniority and country
- Deliverable-based versus resource-based engagements
- Contracting, compliance and the friction points reported on both sides
How the Study Was Built
We ran it ourselves, on our own network and beyond it. No sponsor, no vendor panel, no figure we cannot trace back to a respondent.
Answers are self-declared and deduplicated. Where a breakdown holds too few responses to be meaningful, the report says so rather than publishing the number.
The market the report describes is the network we run
3,000+ independent healthcare experts, peer-reviewed, across every function of the product lifecycle — worldwide.
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