DICOM Contracts

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring DICOM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DICOM over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 584 -
Rank change year-on-year +43 - -
Contract jobs citing DICOM 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.002% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.13% 0.017% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £459 - -
25th Percentile £477 £650 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £738 £750 -
90th Percentile £800 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 - -

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 5,193 5,937 7,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 13.71% 13.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 3,673 5,290
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £612 £623 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 431 258
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.52 £19.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -36.42% +39.81%
75th Percentile £62.25 £50.54 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.96 £70.00 £79.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.91 £23.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +21.35% -35.21% +61.36%

DICOM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DICOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DICOM.

Daily rate trend for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DICOM over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DICOM.

Hourly rate trend for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Top 7 Contract 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 6 July 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
England +59 6 £550 -21.43% 8
London +40 5 £675 -3.57% 4
Work from Home - 2 £644 - 5
UK excluding London - 2 £494 - 4
North of England - 1 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
Scotland - 1 £488 -

DICOM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Integration Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Integration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) FHIR
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) PACS
2 2 (28.57%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Coaching
2 2 (28.57%) Data Sharing
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Informatics
3 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) HL7
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 13485
2 1 (14.29%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes