Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DICOM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DICOM over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 730 1060 1078
Rank change year-on-year +330 +18 -329
Permanent jobs citing DICOM 11 16 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.013% 0.016%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% 0.073% 0.100%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 15
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £107,500 £75,000 £78,125
90th Percentile - - £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +111.11% -25.00% -7.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

DICOM is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,856 22,053 20,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.76% 17.79% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,764 11,814 12,559
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,968 £42,500 £40,317
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +2.42%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -3.06%

DICOM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DICOM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DICOM.

Salary trend for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DICOM over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for DICOM in the UK

DICOM
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DICOM within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
England +330 11 £95,000 +100.00% 6
Work from Home +251 7 £95,000 +35.71% 1
UK excluding London +240 7 £95,000 +111.11% 6
South West - 5 £95,000 - 1
London +266 3 £42,500 -39.29% 1
South East +167 2 £57,000 +42.50% 2

DICOM
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 (27.27%) Apache
1 3 (27.27%) IIS
1 3 (27.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
1 3 (27.27%) VLAN
1 3 (27.27%) VPN
1 3 (27.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Architect
1 6 (54.55%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) FHIR
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
1 3 (27.27%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) NHS
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) ArchiMate
1 6 (54.55%) Scrum
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (54.55%) TOGAF
1 6 (54.55%) UML
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Image Processing
4 1 (9.09%) Multithreading
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) C
2 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Azure Certification
1 6 (54.55%) TOGAF Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Ceph
1 3 (27.27%) KVM
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) FortiGate
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Barracuda Networks
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Nimble Storage
1 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
1 3 (27.27%) Sophos
1 3 (27.27%) Veeam
1 3 (27.27%) VMware