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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 493 529
Rank change year-on-year -59 +36 +87
Contract jobs citing HL7 71 27 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.092% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.89% 0.58% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 23 35
10th Percentile £378 - £213
25th Percentile £428 £375 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £260
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +63.46% -36.97%
75th Percentile £587 £550 £469
90th Percentile £628 £761 £531
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 7,971 4,637 6,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.57% 15.78% 14.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,140 2,987 3,848
10th Percentile £343 £267 £282
25th Percentile £413 £400 £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 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £482
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.35% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 460 174 381
10th Percentile £14.02 £17.67 £10.95
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.14 £13.18
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.50 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +63.39% -39.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £67.03 £45.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.90 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £46.30 £18.27
% change year-on-year -13.61% +153.42% -45.27%

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 17 May 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 11 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 17 May 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 -82 58 £510 +20.00% 17
London -43 27 £510 -2.86% 8
Work from Home -18 26 £460 +14.88% 2
UK excluding London -88 26 £505 +26.25% 8
North of England -64 10 £500 +25.00% 4
South West - 10 £570 - 2
Yorkshire -51 9 £500 -4.76% 2
South East -57 4 £575 +43.75% 2
Wales -12 1 £447 +167.55%
East of England -27 1 £550 -
North West -41 1 £500 +25.00% 2

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 (7.04%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
3 1 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) SystmOne
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.54%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (9.86%) GCP
4 3 (4.23%) iPaaS
4 3 (4.23%) Serverless
5 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.41%) Apigee
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.41%) GitHub
6 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) NAS
1 3 (4.23%) SAN
2 1 (1.41%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.41%) SSL
2 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (32.39%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.41%) EDMS
3 1 (1.41%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.41%) Metadata
3 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) JIRA
2 3 (4.23%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (2.82%) GitLab
3 2 (2.82%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.90%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.08%) Digital Health
5 8 (11.27%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (9.86%) Health Technology
7 3 (4.23%) Digital Healthcare
7 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Military
9 1 (1.41%) Finance
9 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Architect
2 9 (12.68%) Consultant
2 9 (12.68%) Developer
2 9 (12.68%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (11.27%) Integration Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Lead
5 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Integration Architect
5 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (4.23%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Healthcare Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Healthcare Project Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Integration Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Project Leader
6 3 (4.23%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (73.24%) FHIR
2 8 (11.27%) .NET
3 7 (9.86%) React
3 7 (9.86%) REST
3 7 (9.86%) RESTful
4 6 (8.45%) XML
5 5 (7.04%) JSON
5 5 (7.04%) Middleware
6 4 (5.63%) SOAP
7 3 (4.23%) Kafka
7 3 (4.23%) Spring
7 3 (4.23%) Spring Boot
8 2 (2.82%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.82%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.82%) EDI
8 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.82%) LDAP
8 2 (2.82%) OpenAPI
8 2 (2.82%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (2.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 37 (52.11%) NHS
2 16 (22.54%) PACS
3 6 (8.45%) LIMS
4 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.63%) Replication
6 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.82%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (1.41%) IoT
8 1 (1.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Agile
2 18 (25.35%) Integration Patterns
2 18 (25.35%) Validation
3 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
4 13 (18.31%) Data Modelling
4 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.49%) Data Migration
5 11 (15.49%) Migration
5 11 (15.49%) Workflow
6 10 (14.08%) DevOps
7 9 (12.68%) Microservices
7 9 (12.68%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (11.27%) Project Delivery
9 7 (9.86%) Event-Driven
9 7 (9.86%) PRINCE2
9 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (8.45%) Analytics
10 6 (8.45%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.72%) SQL
2 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
3 4 (5.63%) C#
3 4 (5.63%) Java
3 4 (5.63%) Python
4 3 (4.23%) C++
5 2 (2.82%) Tcl
6 1 (1.41%) C
6 1 (1.41%) Go
6 1 (1.41%) PHP
6 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.23%) PMP
6 2 (2.82%) CBAP
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.76%) DICOM
2 8 (11.27%) SNOMED CT
3 7 (9.86%) GDPR
4 3 (4.23%) QA
5 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.82%) PMO
6 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Terraform
2 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Oracle
2 8 (11.27%) InterSystems
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.63%) Infor
5 3 (4.23%) Brio
5 3 (4.23%) Cerner
6 2 (2.82%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.82%) Veritas
7 1 (1.41%) Foundry
7 1 (1.41%) Informatica
7 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.41%) Palantir
7 1 (1.41%) Talend
7 1 (1.41%) VMware