DICOM Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DICOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DICOM 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.071% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £247 - -
25th Percentile £284 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 - -
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile £478 - -
UK median daily rate £488 £265 £494
% change year-on-year +83.96% -46.33% -28.23%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,835 2,359 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.67% 13.86% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,791 1,296 2,001
10th Percentile £263 £213 £263
25th Percentile £375 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £656 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 189 210
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.87 £14.47
25th Percentile £15.60 £15.20 £18.55
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -25.17% +65.17%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.43 £68.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year +9.09% -22.82% +44.81%

DICOM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

DICOM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DICOM
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DICOM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DICOM

DICOM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DICOM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DICOM in the UK excluding London

DICOM
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DICOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DICOM

DICOM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DICOM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South West - 1 £222 -
Scotland - 1 £488 -
DICOM
UK

DICOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst Developer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) FHIR
2 1 (50.00%) ODBC
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Tcl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) HL7
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 13485
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP