HL7 Contracts

Health Level 7 (HL7)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HL7 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HL7 over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 490 555 641
Rank change year-on-year +65 +86 +133
Contract jobs citing HL7 29 45 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.64% 0.72% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 34
10th Percentile £265 £190 £201
25th Percentile £375 £259 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £260 £413
Median % change year-on-year +58.65% -36.97% +3.13%
75th Percentile £550 £419 £461
90th Percentile £741 £531 £537
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £260 £400
% change year-on-year +53.85% -35.00% +9.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.69
Median hourly rate - - £33.39
75th Percentile - - £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £33.39

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 4,558 6,250 7,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.59% 14.34% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,921 3,951 5,482
10th Percentile £265 £295 £275
25th Percentile £400 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 383 225
10th Percentile £18.04 £10.95 £13.21
25th Percentile £22.21 £13.18 £18.70
Median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.00% +33.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £45.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £83.01 £67.38 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.78 £18.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +126.53% -50.34% +72.21%

HL7
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HL7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HL7.

Daily rate trend for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HL7 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HL7.

Hourly rate trend for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Top 10 Contract 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 30 April 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 +52 27 £413 +58.65% 22
Work from Home +58 16 £400 +28.62% 16
London +42 13 £450 +50.63% 9
UK excluding London +26 10 £400 +53.85% 14
North of England +31 7 £400 +28.62% 4
North West +12 5 £400 +28.62% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £525 - 1
Midlands +8 1 £400 +54.14% 1
Wales 0 1 £167 -67.40% 1
East of England - 1 - - 1

HL7
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (24.14%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Functions
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (10.34%) Azure Storage
3 3 (10.34%) Serverless
4 2 (6.90%) AWS
5 1 (3.45%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) BGP
1 2 (6.90%) DHCP
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) EIGRP
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
1 2 (6.90%) Internet
1 2 (6.90%) LAN
1 2 (6.90%) Network Security
1 2 (6.90%) OSPF
1 2 (6.90%) VoIP
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
1 2 (6.90%) WAN
1 2 (6.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (3.45%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (6.90%) tSQLt
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) NUnit
3 1 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.45%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (24.14%) Law
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Electronics
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Health
5 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (3.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Integration Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Integration Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Network Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (44.83%) FHIR
2 4 (13.79%) XML
3 3 (10.34%) Web Services
4 2 (6.90%) .NET
4 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (6.90%) JSON
4 2 (6.90%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) ebXML
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) HTML5
5 1 (3.45%) jQuery
5 1 (3.45%) MSMQ
5 1 (3.45%) ODBC
5 1 (3.45%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) WCF
5 1 (3.45%) WPF
5 1 (3.45%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) NHS
1 7 (24.14%) PACS
2 2 (6.90%) Clustering
2 2 (6.90%) Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) LIMS
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Agile
1 7 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (24.14%) Data Transformation
2 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
3 3 (10.34%) API Management
3 3 (10.34%) Batch Processing
3 3 (10.34%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
3 3 (10.34%) Data Architecture
3 3 (10.34%) Data Integration
3 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
3 3 (10.34%) Event-Driven
3 3 (10.34%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (10.34%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.34%) Programme Management
3 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
4 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.45%) VB
5 1 (3.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) CCNA
3 2 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.45%) MCAD
4 1 (3.45%) MCP
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) DICOM
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco
2 2 (6.90%) Extreme Networks
2 2 (6.90%) InterSystems
2 2 (6.90%) Mitel
2 2 (6.90%) RedGate
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media