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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 510 538
Rank change year-on-year -90 +28 +83
Contract jobs citing HL7 61 34 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.090%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.68% 0.61% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 29
10th Percentile £373 £263 £161
25th Percentile £429 £375 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £311
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% +32.64% -25.73%
75th Percentile £588 £528 £519
90th Percentile £649 £604 £533
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £400 £311
% change year-on-year +31.25% +28.62% -35.38%

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 8,980 5,553 5,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.09% 16.92% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,740 3,586 3,387
10th Percentile £338 £281 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% -3.62%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £623
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £471 £475
% change year-on-year +6.27% -0.94% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 550 249 343
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.58 £11.15
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.45 £14.49
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.35 £25.60
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +6.84% -32.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £54.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £83.78 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.66 £25.00
% change year-on-year +62.21% -1.36% -28.57%

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 29 July 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 10 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 29 July 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 -93 49 £510 +27.50% 16
Work from Home -56 26 £460 +14.88% 7
London -55 22 £510 +13.33% 10
UK excluding London -90 22 £525 +31.25% 7
South West - 9 £570 - 1
Yorkshire -38 8 £500 - 1
North of England -72 8 £500 +25.00% 2
South East -64 3 £538 +34.38% 2
East of England -18 1 £550 +29.41% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £625 -

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 6 (9.84%) Confluence
2 3 (4.92%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.64%) IIS
4 1 (1.64%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SystmOne
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.87%) AWS
2 11 (18.03%) Azure
3 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.20%) GCP
3 5 (8.20%) Serverless
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.56%) GitHub
4 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.92%) Apigee
5 3 (4.92%) iPaaS
6 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) NAS
1 3 (4.92%) SAN
2 1 (1.64%) MQTT
2 1 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (31.15%) Electronic Patient Records
2 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.64%) EDMS
4 1 (1.64%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.64%) Metadata
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Redis
4 1 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.11%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (11.48%) Digital Health
6 4 (6.56%) Health Technology
7 3 (4.92%) Digital Healthcare
7 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.28%) Military
9 1 (1.64%) Finance
9 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Architect
2 12 (19.67%) Developer
3 8 (13.11%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Consultant
4 6 (9.84%) Data Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Integration Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Integration Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Oracle Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Software Developer
6 3 (4.92%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.28%) Data Integration Architect
7 2 (3.28%) Implementation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (78.69%) FHIR
2 11 (18.03%) REST
3 8 (13.11%) JSON
4 6 (9.84%) SOAP
4 6 (9.84%) XML
5 5 (8.20%) .NET
5 5 (8.20%) Middleware
5 5 (8.20%) RESTful
6 4 (6.56%) React
7 3 (4.92%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (3.28%) EDI
8 2 (3.28%) GraphQL
8 2 (3.28%) LDAP
8 2 (3.28%) Node.js
8 2 (3.28%) OAuth
8 2 (3.28%) OAuth2
8 2 (3.28%) OpenID
9 1 (1.64%) Flask
9 1 (1.64%) Kafka
9 1 (1.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (50.82%) NHS
2 12 (19.67%) PACS
3 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
4 6 (9.84%) LIMS
5 4 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (6.56%) Replication
6 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.28%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.28%) IoT
7 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.64%) Life Science
8 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.87%) Agile
2 16 (26.23%) Integration Patterns
3 15 (24.59%) Data Modelling
4 14 (22.95%) Validation
5 12 (19.67%) CI/CD
5 12 (19.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (16.39%) Data Migration
6 10 (16.39%) Migration
7 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (13.11%) DevOps
8 8 (13.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (13.11%) Workflow
9 7 (11.48%) ETL
9 7 (11.48%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (9.84%) Data Governance
10 6 (9.84%) Event-Driven
10 6 (9.84%) PRINCE2
10 6 (9.84%) Project Delivery
11 5 (8.20%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.75%) SQL
2 7 (11.48%) Python
3 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
3 6 (9.84%) TypeScript
4 3 (4.92%) Apex Code
4 3 (4.92%) Java
5 2 (3.28%) C#
5 2 (3.28%) C++
5 2 (3.28%) Tcl
6 1 (1.64%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) Go
6 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.92%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.92%) PMP
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.28%) CBAP
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.23%) DICOM
2 10 (16.39%) SNOMED CT
3 8 (13.11%) GDPR
4 3 (4.92%) QA
5 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.28%) IEC 62304
5 2 (3.28%) ISO 13485
5 2 (3.28%) PMO
6 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) InterSystems
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) Foundry
3 3 (4.92%) Infor
3 3 (4.92%) Palantir
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Hitachi
4 2 (3.28%) Veritas
5 1 (1.64%) Brio
5 1 (1.64%) Cerner
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.64%) Talend
5 1 (1.64%) VMware