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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 512 565
Rank change year-on-year -35 +53 +186
Contract jobs citing HL7 37 32 40
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.094% 0.091%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.58% 0.66% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 23
10th Percentile £330 £160 £194
25th Percentile £372 £161 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £198 £400
Median % change year-on-year +137.34% -50.63% -9.60%
75th Percentile £500 £261 £600
90th Percentile £527 £275 -
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 6,357 4,834 6,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.26% 14.14% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,103 2,845 4,280
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £405 £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 £486 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.32% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 187 233
10th Percentile £13.98 £15.00 £14.20
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.75 £19.47
Median hourly rate £25.63 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -21.43% +55.87%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.24 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £82.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.60 £27.35 £35.25
% change year-on-year -24.70% -22.41% +70.95%

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 19 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 19 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 -22 28 £494 +146.88% 19
UK excluding London -34 19 £500 +173.76% 12
Work from Home +3 13 £425 +134.30% 10
London -11 11 £360 +54.84% 9
North of England -43 11 £500 -9.09% 7
Yorkshire -37 9 £500 -9.09% 4
Wales -2 2 £449 +167.30%
East of England -19 2 £425 - 1
North West - 2 £500 - 3
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
South East -23 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 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.51%) Serverless
4 4 (10.81%) Azure AKS
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Functions
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) Lucidchart
6 1 (2.70%) Miro
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (32.43%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) EDMS
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
3 1 (2.70%) Selenium
3 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Public Sector
3 9 (24.32%) Health Technology
4 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Digital Health
5 4 (10.81%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (8.11%) Digital Healthcare
7 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.70%) Electronics
8 1 (2.70%) Finance
8 1 (2.70%) German Language
8 1 (2.70%) Local Government
8 1 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.22%) Developer
2 5 (13.51%) .NET Software Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Analyst
2 5 (13.51%) Software Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.81%) Integration Developer
3 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 3 (8.11%) Consultant
4 3 (8.11%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Integration Specialist
4 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 2 (5.41%) Digital Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (78.38%) FHIR
2 10 (27.03%) .NET
3 7 (18.92%) RESTful
4 6 (16.22%) React
5 5 (13.51%) .NET Core
6 3 (8.11%) Kafka
6 3 (8.11%) REST
6 3 (8.11%) Spring
6 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.11%) XML
7 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (5.41%) JSON
7 2 (5.41%) Middleware
7 2 (5.41%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.41%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (5.41%) Swagger
7 2 (5.41%) Web Services
8 1 (2.70%) Apache Camel
8 1 (2.70%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 24 (64.86%) NHS
2 6 (16.22%) PACS
3 4 (10.81%) LIMS
4 3 (8.11%) Life Science
5 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.70%) Genomics
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Agile
2 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.03%) DevOps
3 10 (27.03%) Microservices
3 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
4 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (18.92%) Data Integration
5 7 (18.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 7 (18.92%) Validation
6 6 (16.22%) Clean Code
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.51%) Data Governance
7 5 (13.51%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (13.51%) Information Governance
7 5 (13.51%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (13.51%) Scrum
7 5 (13.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) C#
3 4 (10.81%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) Python
6 1 (2.70%) Bicep
6 1 (2.70%) PHP
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.70%) R
6 1 (2.70%) Tcl
6 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (2.70%) IIBA
3 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
3 1 (2.70%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) DICOM
2 3 (8.11%) SNOMED CT
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 2 (5.41%) GxP
4 1 (2.70%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) PMO
4 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Brio
3 4 (10.81%) Cerner
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Ariba
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) Infor
5 1 (2.70%) InterSystems
5 1 (2.70%) MEDITECH
5 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat