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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 484 551
Rank change year-on-year -72 +67 +103
Contract jobs citing HL7 69 35 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.89% 0.79% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 30 33
10th Percentile £375 £185 -
25th Percentile £459 £222 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £260
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +53.85% -36.97%
75th Percentile £586 £484 £438
90th Percentile £627 £623 £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £400 £260
% change year-on-year +26.25% +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 7,750 4,451 6,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.35% 15.33% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,994 2,888 4,025
10th Percentile £336 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £385 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £720 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £487
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.41% +2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 172 375
10th Percentile £14.45 £17.63 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.28
Median hourly rate £30.50 £32.25 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% +52.74% -47.21%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £44.38
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.53 £66.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.58 £32.00 £18.11
% change year-on-year -4.44% +76.70% -50.04%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -79 59 £505 +26.25% 30
UK excluding London -72 33 £505 +26.25% 21
Work from Home -39 23 £478 +19.56% 14
London -60 22 £500 +85.19% 9
North of England -63 13 £500 +25.00% 5
Yorkshire -44 12 £500 -4.76% 5
South West - 10 £570 - 3
South East - 5 £538 - 3
East of England -27 2 £550 - 1
Midlands -70 2 - - 9
East Midlands - 2 - - 5
Wales -12 1 £447 +126.33%
North West -45 1 £500 +25.00%

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 (7.25%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) SystmOne
2 1 (1.45%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.64%) Azure
2 16 (23.19%) AWS
3 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.14%) GCP
4 4 (5.80%) Serverless
5 3 (4.35%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.90%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.45%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.45%) Miro
7 1 (1.45%) OCI
7 1 (1.45%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) NAS
1 2 (2.90%) SAN
2 1 (1.45%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.13%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.90%) EDMS
2 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.45%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.45%) Metadata
3 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (2.90%) Git
3 2 (2.90%) GitLab
3 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.45%) Selenium
General
1 28 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Public Sector
3 13 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.94%) Digital Health
4 11 (15.94%) Health Technology
5 7 (10.14%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Digital Healthcare
7 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Military
9 1 (1.45%) Finance
9 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (24.64%) Architect
2 10 (14.49%) Solutions Architect
3 9 (13.04%) Analyst
3 9 (13.04%) Business Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) Lead
5 7 (10.14%) Consultant
5 7 (10.14%) Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) .NET Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior
8 4 (5.80%) Integration Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Healthcare Business Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Oracle Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Oracle Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Project Leader
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (78.26%) FHIR
2 9 (13.04%) .NET
2 9 (13.04%) RESTful
3 7 (10.14%) React
3 7 (10.14%) REST
4 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.80%) JSON
4 4 (5.80%) Kafka
4 4 (5.80%) Middleware
4 4 (5.80%) Spring
4 4 (5.80%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.35%) SOAP
5 3 (4.35%) XML
6 2 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.90%) EDI
6 2 (2.90%) LDAP
6 2 (2.90%) Node.js
6 2 (2.90%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 41 (59.42%) NHS
2 15 (21.74%) PACS
3 5 (7.25%) LIMS
3 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.80%) Replication
5 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.45%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.45%) IoT
7 1 (1.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Windows
2 4 (5.80%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (33.33%) Agile
2 19 (27.54%) Integration Patterns
3 16 (23.19%) Validation
4 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (20.29%) CI/CD
6 13 (18.84%) Data Modelling
7 12 (17.39%) Microservices
8 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (14.49%) DevOps
9 10 (14.49%) Workflow
10 9 (13.04%) Analytics
10 9 (13.04%) Data Integration
10 9 (13.04%) Event-Driven
11 8 (11.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 8 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (10.14%) Information Governance
12 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (10.14%) PRINCE2
12 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.84%) SQL
2 7 (10.14%) C#
3 6 (8.70%) Java
3 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.80%) Python
6 3 (4.35%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) C
7 1 (1.45%) Go
7 1 (1.45%) PHP
7 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.45%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.90%) PMP
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.45%) CBAP
6 1 (1.45%) IIBA
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.19%) DICOM
2 7 (10.14%) SNOMED CT
3 6 (8.70%) GDPR
4 4 (5.80%) QA
5 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.90%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Terraform
2 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
1 8 (11.59%) Oracle
2 6 (8.70%) InterSystems
3 5 (7.25%) Brio
3 5 (7.25%) Cerner
4 2 (2.90%) Infor
4 2 (2.90%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.90%) Veritas
5 1 (1.45%) Foundry
5 1 (1.45%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.45%) HP
5 1 (1.45%) Informatica
5 1 (1.45%) MEDITECH
5 1 (1.45%) Palantir
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Talend