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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 542 625
Rank change year-on-year +43 +83 +162
Contract jobs citing HL7 35 43 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.100% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.70% 0.73% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 23
10th Percentile - £198 £204
25th Percentile £375 £259 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £260 £413
Median % change year-on-year +58.65% -36.97% -14.29%
75th Percentile £547 £500 £500
90th Percentile £800 £531 £547
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £260 £481
% change year-on-year +53.85% -45.95% +74.91%
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 4,999 5,910 7,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 13.69% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 3,665 5,168
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £499
% change year-on-year -1.05% -4.71% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 431 253
10th Percentile £14.78 £11.07 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £31.57 £23.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -36.53% +37.61%
75th Percentile £64.06 £49.38 £63.23
90th Percentile £83.96 £70.00 £79.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £20.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +41.74% -45.44% +67.45%

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 June 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 11 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 June 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 +47 29 £400 +53.85% 125
Work from Home +57 23 £400 +28.62% 84
London +62 15 £525 +189.66% 52
UK excluding London +11 10 £400 +53.85% 72
North of England +9 6 £400 +28.62% 12
North West +14 5 £400 +28.62% 6
South East +40 1 £400 -22.89% 20
Wales +6 1 £183 -64.39% 1
Yorkshire +2 1 £500 - 5
Midlands -2 1 £400 +54.14% 14
Scotland - 1 £488 - 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 3 (8.57%) JBoss
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Cerner Millennium
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Functions
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Storage
3 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Twilio
5 1 (2.86%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) InterSystems Cache
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) NUnit
3 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.86%) tSQLt
General
1 10 (28.57%) Law
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) German Language
3 2 (5.71%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Developer
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
3 6 (17.14%) Integration Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Integration Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Data Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) SAP Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Systems Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.86%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (51.43%) FHIR
2 4 (11.43%) XML
3 3 (8.57%) REST
4 2 (5.71%) .NET
4 2 (5.71%) JSON
4 2 (5.71%) Kafka
4 2 (5.71%) Middleware
4 2 (5.71%) ODBC
4 2 (5.71%) RESTful
4 2 (5.71%) SOAP
4 2 (5.71%) Web Services
5 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (2.86%) ebXML
5 1 (2.86%) Express.js
5 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) LangChain
5 1 (2.86%) MSMQ
5 1 (2.86%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) NHS
1 8 (22.86%) PACS
2 2 (5.71%) Clustering
2 2 (5.71%) Life Science
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.86%) LIMS
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) Agile
1 7 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
1 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
3 5 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
3 5 (14.29%) Validation
4 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
4 4 (11.43%) Data Governance
4 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.57%) Change Management
5 3 (8.57%) Data Architecture
5 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
5 3 (8.57%) DevOps
5 3 (8.57%) ETL
5 3 (8.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (8.57%) Process Improvement
5 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) SQL
2 5 (14.29%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) C#
4 2 (5.71%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.71%) VB
4 2 (5.71%) VB6
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) MCP
2 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.71%) PMP
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) MCAD
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) DICOM
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) GxP
3 2 (5.71%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.86%) ISO 13485
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
4 1 (2.86%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Cerner
3 2 (5.71%) Ariba
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) InterSystems
3 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.71%) RedGate
3 2 (5.71%) SAP