HL7 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Health Level 7 (HL7)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring HL7 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 174 213
Rank change year-on-year +8 +39 -
Contract jobs citing HL7 1 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.028% 0.14% 0.018%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.16% 1.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile - £477 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -22.89% -1.19% -
75th Percentile - £528 £538
90th Percentile - £534 -
England median daily rate £400 £265 £450
% change year-on-year +50.94% -41.11% -2.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 631 540 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.46% 12.64% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 273 506
10th Percentile £250 £250 £203
25th Percentile £406 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +10.53%
75th Percentile £586 £623 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £743
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 31 60
10th Percentile £14.51 £17.63 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.13 £31.13 £24.26
Median hourly rate £17.22 £55.00 £50.53
Median % change year-on-year -68.70% +8.85% +140.61%
75th Percentile £69.65 £64.08 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.28 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.50 £36.75
% change year-on-year -9.86% -3.40% +51.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

HL7 job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HL7.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HL7

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HL7.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HL7

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HL7 within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 October 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
Berkshire +10 1 £400 -22.89% 4
Thames Valley 0 1 £400 -22.89% 4
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Twilio
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Collection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform