DICOM Contract Job Trends in England

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DICOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 500 584
Rank change year-on-year -34 +84 +191
Contract jobs citing DICOM 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.013% 0.016% 0.005%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.075% 0.12% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £260 £274
25th Percentile - £263 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £222 £270 £494
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -45.32% -28.23%
75th Percentile - £275 £664
90th Percentile - - £738
UK median daily rate £355 £270 £494
% change year-on-year +31.39% -45.32% -28.23%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

DICOM falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 5,362 4,066 5,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.65% 13.19% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,472 2,367 3,753
10th Percentile £310 £281 £319
25th Percentile £403 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 173 231
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.49 £14.54
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.23 £20.51
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.21 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -25.41% +67.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.69 £67.75
90th Percentile £79.97 £70.00 £83.25
UK median hourly rate £25.63 £27.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year -6.80% -25.17% +50.00%

DICOM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DICOM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

DICOM job vacancy trend in England

DICOM
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DICOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DICOM

DICOM
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DICOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DICOM

DICOM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DICOM within the England region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -4 3 - - 1
South West - 1 £222 -
DICOM
UK

DICOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Electronics
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Integration Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FHIR
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ODBC
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Ontologies
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Tcl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) HL7
2 2 (50.00%) SNOMED CT
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
3 1 (25.00%) LOINC
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) SAP