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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 522 590
Rank change year-on-year -17 +68 +193
Contract jobs citing HL7 35 29 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.079% 0.095%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.57% 0.60% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 22
10th Percentile £208 £160 £201
25th Percentile £366 £161 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £200 £355
Median % change year-on-year +106.25% -43.66% -33.18%
75th Percentile £498 £273 £600
90th Percentile £593 £369 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £204 £575
% change year-on-year +114.72% -64.57% +93.28%

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 6,112 4,831 6,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.65% 13.23% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,920 2,835 4,420
10th Percentile £304 £275 £308
25th Percentile £402 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +0.74% -5.70% +4.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 213 251
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.26 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.77 £27.50 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -30.56% +52.31%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £26.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -13.21% -37.65% +84.78%

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 6 November 2025.

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 14 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 6 November 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 +7 26 £400 +72.04% 48
Work from Home +24 18 £400 +105.13% 19
UK excluding London -40 15 £438 +114.72% 30
London -3 12 £298 +27.96% 25
North of England -33 5 £500 - 6
Yorkshire -29 4 £500 - 4
South East +2 2 £444 -15.48% 18
Wales -6 2 £316 +73.15% 1
East of England - 2 £425 - 4
East Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £222 -
Scotland - 1 £488 -

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 (8.57%) JBoss
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.86%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (2.86%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.57%) Azure AKS
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
4 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.86%) Miro
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.86%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (2.86%) Twilio
6 1 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (37.14%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
3 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.86%) EDMS
5 1 (2.86%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
1 2 (5.71%) Rational Rhapsody
1 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (5.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) Selenium
2 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
2 1 (2.86%) tSQLt
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 6 (17.14%) Health Technology
4 5 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (11.43%) Digital Health
6 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Digital Healthcare
6 3 (8.57%) Law
7 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Finance
7 2 (5.71%) German Language
7 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.86%) Electronics
8 1 (2.86%) Local Government
8 1 (2.86%) Marketing
8 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Integration Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Technical Architect
5 3 (8.57%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Integration Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Integration Specialist
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (2.86%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (68.57%) FHIR
2 6 (17.14%) .NET
3 5 (14.29%) REST
4 4 (11.43%) Middleware
4 4 (11.43%) XML
5 3 (8.57%) .NET Core
5 3 (8.57%) RESTful
5 3 (8.57%) Web Services
6 2 (5.71%) JSON
6 2 (5.71%) Kafka
6 2 (5.71%) ODBC
6 2 (5.71%) React
6 2 (5.71%) SOAP
7 1 (2.86%) EDI
7 1 (2.86%) Express.js
7 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.86%) jQuery
7 1 (2.86%) Spine.js
7 1 (2.86%) Unity DI Container
7 1 (2.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (54.29%) NHS
2 5 (14.29%) PACS
3 4 (11.43%) Life Science
3 4 (11.43%) LIMS
4 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.71%) Clustering
5 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.86%) Genomics
6 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Agile
1 10 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (22.86%) DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
4 6 (17.14%) Data Integration
4 6 (17.14%) Microservices
4 6 (17.14%) Validation
5 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (14.29%) Change Management
5 5 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (14.29%) Scrum
6 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
6 4 (11.43%) Event-Driven
6 4 (11.43%) Process Improvement
6 4 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (8.57%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) SQL
2 5 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (8.57%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) T-SQL
3 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.71%) Bicep
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) Tcl
5 1 (2.86%) VB
5 1 (2.86%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
1 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
1 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
1 2 (5.71%) PMP
2 1 (2.86%) IIBA
2 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (2.86%) MCP
2 1 (2.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) DICOM
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) GxP
2 3 (8.57%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.86%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.86%) ISO 13485
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
4 1 (2.86%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Terraform
2 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Cerner
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) SAP
3 3 (8.57%) Brio
3 3 (8.57%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) MuleSoft
4 2 (5.71%) Ariba
4 2 (5.71%) InterSystems
4 2 (5.71%) RedGate
5 1 (2.86%) HP
5 1 (2.86%) MEDITECH
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat