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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 527 543
Rank change year-on-year -96 +16 +68
Contract jobs citing HL7 51 31 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.094% 0.067%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.54% 0.55% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 19
10th Percentile £362 £212 £160
25th Percentile £413 £369 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £250
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +70.00% -19.35%
75th Percentile £571 £577 £509
90th Percentile £615 £760 £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £311
% change year-on-year +25.00% +28.62% -44.71%

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 9,494 5,631 5,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.46% 17.11% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,999 3,606 3,096
10th Percentile £325 £300 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% -3.29%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £625
90th Percentile £700 £712 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £480
% change year-on-year +3.05% -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 267 262
10th Percentile £13.91 £13.60 £12.37
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £27.09
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +10.74% -22.60%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £58.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.10 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £27.53 £26.50
% change year-on-year +23.43% +3.89% -24.29%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -92 41 £500 +17.65% 29
Work from Home -63 21 £450 +12.50% 189
UK excluding London -82 21 £500 +25.00% 17
London -85 18 £519 +25.76% 17
Yorkshire -30 10 £500 - 2
North of England -61 10 £500 - 2
South West -38 5 £562 +153.15% 3
Midlands - 2 £450 - 4
Channel Islands - 2 £575 -
East of England -21 1 £550 +29.41% 3
South East -62 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £400 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 3

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 (5.88%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) IIS
3 1 (1.96%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) AWS
2 6 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 6 (11.76%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) Serverless
3 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (9.80%) GitHub
3 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.88%) Apigee
5 3 (5.88%) iPaaS
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.96%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) MQTT
1 1 (1.96%) NAS
1 1 (1.96%) SAN
1 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Redis
4 1 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
3 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Digital Health
5 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Legal
6 1 (1.96%) Military
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Integration Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Salesforce Developer
4 4 (7.84%) Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Business Analyst
4 4 (7.84%) Consultant
5 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Integration Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Palantir Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Software Developer
5 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Healthcare Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Healthcare Project Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Integration Developer
6 2 (3.92%) IT Analyst
6 2 (3.92%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (84.31%) FHIR
2 13 (25.49%) REST
3 9 (17.65%) JSON
3 9 (17.65%) RESTful
4 7 (13.73%) SOAP
5 6 (11.76%) Middleware
5 6 (11.76%) Terraform
5 6 (11.76%) XML
6 5 (9.80%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (9.80%) Web Services
7 4 (7.84%) .NET
8 3 (5.88%) React
9 2 (3.92%) HTML
9 2 (3.92%) OAuth
9 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.92%) OpenID
10 1 (1.96%) CSS
10 1 (1.96%) jQuery
10 1 (1.96%) Kafka
10 1 (1.96%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (41.18%) NHS
2 7 (13.73%) PACS
3 6 (11.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.88%) LIMS
5 2 (3.92%) IoT
5 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
6 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
1 3 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Agile
2 12 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 11 (21.57%) Data Modelling
4 10 (19.61%) Data Mapping
4 10 (19.61%) Data Migration
4 10 (19.61%) DevOps
4 10 (19.61%) Migration
5 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.69%) Integration Patterns
6 8 (15.69%) Validation
7 7 (13.73%) ETL
7 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (11.76%) Data Protection
8 6 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.80%) Front End Development
9 5 (9.80%) Integration Testing
9 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
9 5 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) SQL
2 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
2 5 (9.80%) Python
3 4 (7.84%) Apex Code
3 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (3.92%) Bash
5 2 (3.92%) Tcl
6 1 (1.96%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.84%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) CBAP
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.53%) DICOM
2 6 (11.76%) SNOMED CT
3 4 (7.84%) GDPR
4 2 (3.92%) IEC 62304
4 2 (3.92%) ISO 13485
4 2 (3.92%) PMO
4 2 (3.92%) QA
5 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.84%) Infor
2 4 (7.84%) InterSystems
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) Foundry
3 3 (5.88%) Palantir
4 2 (3.92%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.96%) Brio
5 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.96%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) VMware