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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 502 562
Rank change year-on-year -48 +60 +191
Contract jobs citing HL7 36 33 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.097% 0.094%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.57% 0.69% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 23
10th Percentile £343 £160 £194
25th Percentile £363 £161 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £199 £400
Median % change year-on-year +126.42% -50.31% -9.60%
75th Percentile £500 £273 £600
90th Percentile £525 £341 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £183 £525
% change year-on-year +173.76% -65.21% +31.25%

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 6,337 4,810 6,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.25% 14.17% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,093 2,829 4,250
10th Percentile £313 £262 £313
25th Percentile £406 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £623 £645
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 185 231
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.00 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £19.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% -20.00% +55.61%
75th Percentile £60.31 £62.24 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.40 £83.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.50 £27.35 £35.50
% change year-on-year -25.05% -22.96% +75.40%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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 -24 28 £488 +109.68% 19
UK excluding London -27 19 £500 +173.76% 12
Work from Home -5 13 £425 +134.30% 10
London -5 11 £375 +61.29% 9
North of England -32 11 £500 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire -40 9 £500 -9.09% 4
Wales -9 2 £449 +167.30%
East of England -20 2 £425 - 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 £500 - 3
South East -15 1 £488 - 3
South West - 1 £222 -

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 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (2.78%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.78%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) Serverless
4 4 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 3 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.78%) Miro
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) EDMS
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Public Sector
3 8 (22.22%) Health Technology
4 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Digital Health
5 3 (8.33%) Digital Healthcare
5 3 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Electronics
7 1 (2.78%) Finance
7 1 (2.78%) Local Government
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) .NET Software Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Software Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Integration Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Consultant
4 3 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Digital Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Technical Leader
6 1 (2.78%) Digital Transformation
6 1 (2.78%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (75.00%) FHIR
2 10 (27.78%) .NET
3 7 (19.44%) RESTful
4 6 (16.67%) React
5 5 (13.89%) .NET Core
6 3 (8.33%) Kafka
6 3 (8.33%) REST
6 3 (8.33%) Spring
6 3 (8.33%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.33%) XML
7 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.56%) JSON
7 2 (5.56%) Middleware
7 2 (5.56%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (5.56%) Swagger
7 2 (5.56%) Web Services
8 1 (2.78%) IDoc
8 1 (2.78%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 23 (63.89%) NHS
2 6 (16.67%) PACS
3 4 (11.11%) LIMS
4 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.56%) Life Science
4 2 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) Genomics
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Agile
2 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Microservices
3 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
5 7 (19.44%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
7 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (13.89%) Information Governance
7 5 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (13.89%) Scrum
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) C#
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Java
2 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.56%) Python
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
5 1 (2.78%) PHP
5 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.78%) R
5 1 (2.78%) Tcl
5 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.78%) IIBA
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) DICOM
2 3 (8.33%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) GxP
4 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
4 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Brio
3 3 (8.33%) Cerner
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) HP
5 1 (2.78%) Infor
5 1 (2.78%) InterSystems
5 1 (2.78%) MEDITECH
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat