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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 546 482 547
Rank change year-on-year -64 +65 +119
Contract jobs citing HL7 63 37 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.83% 0.84% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 33
10th Percentile £375 £167 -
25th Percentile £442 £205 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £260
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +53.85% -36.97%
75th Percentile £574 £469 £438
90th Percentile £618 £604 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £260
% change year-on-year +25.00% +53.85% -35.00%
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 7,604 4,428 6,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 15.20% 14.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,912 2,862 4,040
10th Percentile £340 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £378 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £625
90th Percentile £700 £720 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £483
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.66% +1.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 177 372
10th Percentile £15.29 £17.26 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.33
Median hourly rate £28.80 £31.76 £22.01
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +44.30% -44.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.30 £78.56 £67.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £31.76 £18.61
% change year-on-year -3.72% +70.66% -48.66%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -86 53 £500 +25.00% 27
UK excluding London -74 31 £500 +25.00% 18
Work from Home -34 22 £478 +19.56% 11
London -54 18 £490 +81.48% 9
North of England -63 13 £500 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -50 12 £500 -4.76% 5
South West - 10 £570 - 3
South East - 4 £538 - 3
Midlands -65 2 - - 5
East Midlands - 2 - - 3
Wales -12 1 £447 +145.22%
East of England -27 1 - - 1
North West -39 1 £500 +25.00% 1

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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
2 3 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.59%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.59%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.40%) Azure
2 14 (22.22%) AWS
3 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.52%) GCP
5 4 (6.35%) Serverless
6 3 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 3 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.59%) iPaaS
8 1 (1.59%) Lucidchart
8 1 (1.59%) Miro
8 1 (1.59%) OCI
8 1 (1.59%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) NAS
1 2 (3.17%) SAN
2 1 (1.59%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (41.27%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (3.17%) EDMS
2 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (3.17%) GitLab
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Public Sector
3 12 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.46%) Health Technology
5 10 (15.87%) Digital Health
6 4 (6.35%) Digital Healthcare
6 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Military
9 1 (1.59%) Finance
9 1 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (25.40%) Architect
2 10 (15.87%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (14.29%) Analyst
3 9 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 8 (12.70%) Lead
5 6 (9.52%) Developer
5 6 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) .NET Software Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Consultant
6 5 (7.94%) Integration Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Senior
7 4 (6.35%) Integration Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Healthcare Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Healthcare Business Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Oracle Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Oracle Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.76%) Project Leader
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (79.37%) FHIR
2 9 (14.29%) .NET
3 8 (12.70%) RESTful
4 7 (11.11%) React
5 6 (9.52%) REST
6 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
6 4 (6.35%) JSON
6 4 (6.35%) Middleware
7 3 (4.76%) Kafka
7 3 (4.76%) SOAP
7 3 (4.76%) Spring
7 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.76%) XML
8 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.17%) EDI
8 2 (3.17%) LDAP
8 2 (3.17%) Node.js
8 2 (3.17%) OpenAPI
8 2 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (60.32%) NHS
2 13 (20.63%) PACS
3 5 (7.94%) LIMS
3 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.35%) Replication
5 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.59%) IoT
7 1 (1.59%) Life Science
7 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.75%) Agile
2 17 (26.98%) Integration Patterns
3 15 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (22.22%) Validation
5 13 (20.63%) CI/CD
6 12 (19.05%) Data Modelling
7 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (15.87%) DevOps
8 10 (15.87%) Microservices
9 9 (14.29%) Analytics
9 9 (14.29%) Data Integration
9 9 (14.29%) Workflow
10 8 (12.70%) Event-Driven
11 7 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (9.52%) Clean Code
12 6 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
12 6 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.46%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) C#
3 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.94%) Java
4 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.35%) Python
6 3 (4.76%) C++
7 1 (1.59%) C
7 1 (1.59%) Go
7 1 (1.59%) PHP
7 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.52%) Degree
4 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.17%) PMP
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.59%) CBAP
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) IIBA
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) DICOM
2 7 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
3 6 (9.52%) GDPR
4 3 (4.76%) QA
5 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.17%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.59%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
1 8 (12.70%) Oracle
2 6 (9.52%) InterSystems
3 5 (7.94%) Brio
3 5 (7.94%) Cerner
4 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.17%) Veritas
5 1 (1.59%) Foundry
5 1 (1.59%) HP
5 1 (1.59%) Infor
5 1 (1.59%) Informatica
5 1 (1.59%) MEDITECH
5 1 (1.59%) Palantir
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) Talend