Health Level 7 (HL7)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HL7 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 724 652 868
Rank change year-on-year -72 +216 -47
Permanent jobs citing HL7 24 29 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.059% 0.019%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.23% 0.39% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £27,750 £37,000 £40,669
25th Percentile £45,000 £65,000 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £72,500 £61,631
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +17.64% +22.04%
75th Percentile £68,347 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £86,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% +16.67% +20.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10,608 7,457 13,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.79% 15.21% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 6,792 4,155 8,775
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% -5.15%

HL7
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HL7 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

HL7 job vacancy trend in the UK

HL7
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HL7.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HL7

HL7
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HL7 over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HL7 within the UK over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Work from Home -8 12 £50,000 -21.57% 8
England -84 10 £61,139 -15.67% 13
UK excluding London -64 6 £85,000 +21.43% 11
North of England -35 3 £61,139 - 5
Yorkshire - 3 £61,139 - 5
London -29 2 £77,500 +1.64% 4
Scotland - 2 £85,000 - 2
East of England -14 1 £121,283 -

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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) ClickUp
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Firewall
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (16.67%) VLAN
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 7 (29.17%) MySQL
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 13 (54.17%) Health Technology
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Digital Health
3 2 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Consultant
1 7 (29.17%) EPR Consultant
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) IT Support
3 4 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
3 4 (16.67%) IT Technician
3 4 (16.67%) Senior IT Support
3 4 (16.67%) Senior IT Technician
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Support Technician
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Technician
3 4 (16.67%) Support Technician
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Integration Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Remote Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (66.67%) FHIR
2 7 (29.17%) JSON
2 7 (29.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) OpenID
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (58.33%) NHS
2 9 (37.50%) PACS
3 7 (29.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (8.33%) LIMS
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (29.17%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Business Continuity
4 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.83%) Information Governance
5 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
6 3 (12.50%) Contract Management
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
6 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Service Management
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.50%) Tech Ops
6 3 (12.50%) Workflow
7 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) DICOM
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Cerner
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) OutSystems