DICOM Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DICOM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 - 656
Rank change year-on-year - - +99
Permanent jobs citing DICOM 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% - 0.006%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.061% - 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £39,300
25th Percentile £37,500 - £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 - £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +111.11%
75th Percentile £42,500 - £107,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £40,000 - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - -15.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

DICOM falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,923 5,446 6,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.75% 16.10% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,586 2,273 4,799
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,641 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £59,514 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.81% +9.09% -4.35%

DICOM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DICOM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DICOM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DICOM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DICOM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DICOM

DICOM
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DICOM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 3 £40,000 - 2
North of England - 3 £40,000 - 4
DICOM
UK

DICOM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform