HL7 Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Health Level 7 (HL7)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring HL7 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 157 178
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 +60
Contract jobs citing HL7 9 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.19% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.23% 1.02% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile - - £585
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £506 - £606
England median daily rate £469 £200 £513
% change year-on-year +134.38% -60.98% +15.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

HL7 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 731 489 696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.77% 13.66% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 295 399
10th Percentile £300 £250 £265
25th Percentile £363 £356 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +3.06% -7.41% -2.80%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £575
90th Percentile £643 £675 £640
England median daily rate £500 £500 £548
% change year-on-year - -8.68% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 28
10th Percentile £16.59 - £15.45
25th Percentile £25.00 £15.50 £16.47
Median hourly rate £52.78 £20.19 £22.54
Median % change year-on-year +161.39% -10.41% -8.02%
75th Percentile £61.25 £24.76 £45.07
90th Percentile £67.00 £29.50 £75.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.50 £35.79
% change year-on-year -14.75% -17.57% +59.07%

HL7
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HL7 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

HL7 job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HL7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HL7

HL7
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HL7.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing HL7

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HL7 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Yorkshire -39 7 £500 -9.09% 3
North West - 2 £500 - 5
HL7
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 3 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Functions
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Health Technology
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Health
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (11.11%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) .NET Software Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) FHIR
2 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 5 (55.56%) React
4 4 (44.44%) .NET Core
5 3 (33.33%) RESTful
6 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 4 (44.44%) Data Integration
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Brio
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) InterSystems