HL7 Contract Job Trends

Health Level 7 (HL7)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HL7 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 501 545
Rank change year-on-year -61 +44 +155
Contract jobs citing HL7 46 31 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.65% 0.69% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 26 31
10th Percentile £366 £160 -
25th Percentile £425 £197 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £270 £260
Median % change year-on-year +85.19% +3.85% -36.97%
75th Percentile £578 £425 £484
90th Percentile £618 £525 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £260
% change year-on-year +25.00% +53.85% -35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,072 4,515 6,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.40% 14.79% 14.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,553 2,718 4,181
10th Percentile £325 £259 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 165 350
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £14.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £30.00 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +19.72% -22.90%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £48.94
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.38 £72.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.97 £29.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -11.97% +18.00% -17.08%

HL7
Job Vacancy Trend

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

HL7 job vacancy trend in the UK

HL7
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HL7

HL7
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HL7 over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HL7

HL7
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HL7 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 February 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 -65 37 £500 +25.00% 15
UK excluding London -57 23 £500 +25.00% 13
Work from Home -4 16 £450 +12.50% 7
London -34 15 £500 +85.19% 5
North of England -45 13 £500 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -47 12 £500 -4.76% 1
South East - 4 £538 - 4
Wales -8 2 £449 +146.04%
Midlands -51 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
East of England -28 1 - - 2
North West -33 1 £500 +25.00% 3
South West - 1 - -

HL7
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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.17%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) Serverless
5 3 (6.52%) Azure AKS
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.17%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.17%) Miro
7 1 (2.17%) OCI
7 1 (2.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) EDMS
2 1 (2.17%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 9 (19.57%) Health Technology
4 7 (15.22%) Digital Health
5 5 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Business Analyst
2 7 (15.22%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
4 5 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Consultant
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (6.52%) Technical Leader
7 2 (4.35%) Digital Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Digital Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Digital Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (78.26%) FHIR
2 8 (17.39%) RESTful
3 7 (15.22%) .NET
3 7 (15.22%) React
4 4 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 4 (8.70%) REST
5 3 (6.52%) JSON
5 3 (6.52%) Kafka
5 3 (6.52%) Middleware
5 3 (6.52%) Spring
5 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.35%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.35%) SOAP
6 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) Swagger
6 2 (4.35%) XML
7 1 (2.17%) HTML
7 1 (2.17%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (65.22%) NHS
2 8 (17.39%) PACS
3 4 (8.70%) LIMS
3 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Agile
2 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 9 (19.57%) DevOps
4 9 (19.57%) Integration Patterns
4 9 (19.57%) Microservices
4 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 9 (19.57%) Validation
5 7 (15.22%) Analytics
5 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
6 6 (13.04%) Clean Code
6 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (13.04%) Data Governance
6 6 (13.04%) Data Integration
6 6 (13.04%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
7 5 (10.87%) Test Strategy
7 5 (10.87%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.39%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) C#
3 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.87%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.52%) Java
5 2 (4.35%) Python
6 1 (2.17%) C
6 1 (2.17%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
1 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.17%) IIBA
2 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) DICOM
2 3 (6.52%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.17%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.17%) PMO
4 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.17%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Brio
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Cerner
4 2 (4.35%) InterSystems
5 1 (2.17%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) Infor
5 1 (2.17%) Informatica
5 1 (2.17%) MEDITECH
5 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.17%) Talend