DICOM Contract Job Trends

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DICOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 671 552 -
Rank change year-on-year -119 - -
Contract jobs citing DICOM 9 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.021% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.093% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £323 £290 -
25th Percentile £356 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £469 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% - -
75th Percentile £538 £517 -
90th Percentile £598 £537 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £355 -
% change year-on-year +76.18% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,652 5,675 5,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.58% 17.21% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,079 3,636 3,003
10th Percentile £325 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £625
90th Percentile £700 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 636 267 249
10th Percentile £13.93 £13.60 £12.42
25th Percentile £16.60 £16.92 £15.22
Median hourly rate £32.45 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% +9.09% -22.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.50 £81.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £27.54 £27.50
% change year-on-year +19.85% +0.13% -25.17%

DICOM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DICOM job vacancy trend in the UK

DICOM
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

DICOM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DICOM over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

DICOM
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 September 2026. 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
England -122 8 £363 -19.44% 22
Work from Home -62 6 £625 +76.18% 7
London -84 5 £363 -27.50% 11
UK excluding London -97 4 £625 +76.18% 12
South West -37 2 - - 2
South East - 1 - - 5
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -

DICOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) MQTT
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
1 3 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Business IT Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) IT Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Integration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Healthcare Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Healthcare Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Healthcare Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) FHIR
2 2 (22.22%) Middleware
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) PACS
2 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) LIMS
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Validation
3 3 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Data Mapping
4 2 (22.22%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) AI
5 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Health Informatics
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) HL7
2 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Hitachi
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) VMware