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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 549 500 541
Rank change year-on-year -49 +41 +148
Contract jobs citing HL7 35 29 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.092% 0.090%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% 0.64% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 23
10th Percentile £343 £160 £194
25th Percentile £363 £172 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £238 £260
Median % change year-on-year +105.26% -8.65% -40.23%
75th Percentile £500 £419 £419
90th Percentile £548 £539 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £198 £260
% change year-on-year +153.16% -23.89% -43.89%
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 6,516 4,544 6,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.18% 14.34% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,205 2,662 4,157
10th Percentile £315 £253 £306
25th Percentile £410 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 176 297
10th Percentile £15.31 £15.00 £12.47
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.00 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.94 £29.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% +0.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £63.48 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.69 £75.00 £77.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £28.00 £28.30
% change year-on-year -25.89% -1.06% +20.25%

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 January 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 January 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 -43 27 £500 +85.19% 24
UK excluding London -53 19 £500 +153.16% 16
Work from Home -3 11 £450 +125.00% 8
North of England -48 11 £500 -9.09% 5
London -30 10 £375 +38.89% 9
Yorkshire -45 9 £500 -9.09% 3
Wales -6 2 £449 +168.45%
Midlands -47 2 - - 2
North West - 2 £500 - 2
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
South West - 2 £222 - 2
East of England -21 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £488 - 6

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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (2.86%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 11 (31.43%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.43%) Serverless
5 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.71%) GCP
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.86%) Miro
7 1 (2.86%) OCI
7 1 (2.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.86%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Health Technology
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.57%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (5.71%) Digital Health
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (2.86%) Finance
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Analyst
1 6 (17.14%) Software Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Lead
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (8.57%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Integration Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Integration Specialist
3 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Senior Business Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Digital Developer
4 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (77.14%) FHIR
2 8 (22.86%) .NET
3 7 (20.00%) RESTful
4 6 (17.14%) React
5 4 (11.43%) .NET Core
6 3 (8.57%) Kafka
6 3 (8.57%) Spring
6 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.71%) Middleware
7 2 (5.71%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.71%) REST
7 2 (5.71%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (5.71%) Swagger
8 1 (2.86%) Apache Camel
8 1 (2.86%) JSON
8 1 (2.86%) Qt
8 1 (2.86%) Spine.js
8 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (65.71%) NHS
2 6 (17.14%) PACS
3 3 (8.57%) LIMS
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Agile
2 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (25.71%) Microservices
4 8 (22.86%) DevOps
5 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 7 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (17.14%) Analytics
6 6 (17.14%) Clean Code
6 6 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 5 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (14.29%) Information Governance
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.29%) Validation
8 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
8 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) C#
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) C
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) PHP
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) Python
5 1 (2.86%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.86%) IIBA
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) DICOM
2 3 (8.57%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Brio
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Cerner
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) HP
4 1 (2.86%) Infor
4 1 (2.86%) InterSystems
4 1 (2.86%) MEDITECH
4 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.86%) SAP