Health Level 7 (HL7)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring HL7 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited HL7 over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 796 770
Rank change year-on-year +141 -26 +337
DemandTrendPermanent jobs citing HL7 42 25 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.029% 0.080%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.53% 0.21% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 31 11 43
10th Percentile £56,250 £33,500 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +20.00% -9.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,447 £65,000
90th Percentile - £75,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -0.17%

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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,945 11,970 9,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.37% 13.90% 13.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,338 6,401 6,994
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,119 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,500 £43,184
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,925 £51,000
% change year-on-year +2.20% -4.07% +2.00%

HL7
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HL7 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HL7 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 28 August 2025.

Salary histogram for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Top 9 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendPermanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 28 £75,000 +79.64% 11
UK excluding London +117 16 £75,000 +25.00% 10
South East +55 9 £75,000 - 4
London +100 6 £72,500 +116.42% 2
North West - 5 - - 3
North of England - 5 - - 3
Work from Home +49 2 £63,750 -8.93% 10
East of England -7 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 1

HL7
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:

Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Lorenzo
1 1 (2.38%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.14%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.38%) Serverless
5 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (47.62%) Electronic Patient Records
2 8 (19.05%) MySQL
3 7 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 5 (11.90%) RDBMS
5 4 (9.52%) Data Lake
6 3 (7.14%) Metadata
7 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.38%) Big Data
8 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.38%) Power BI
8 1 (2.38%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 24 (57.14%) Health Technology
2 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (11.90%) Digital Healthcare
5 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Finance
6 2 (4.76%) Law
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Games
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Lead
2 8 (19.05%) Integration Specialist
3 5 (11.90%) Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Configuration Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Delivery Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Digital Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Integration Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Integration Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) EPR Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.76%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (4.76%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Administrator
7 1 (2.38%) Applications Specialist
7 1 (2.38%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (88.10%) FHIR
2 11 (26.19%) JSON
3 6 (14.29%) XML
4 4 (9.52%) .NET
5 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.76%) HTML
6 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.38%) CSS
6 1 (2.38%) CSS3
6 1 (2.38%) HTML5
6 1 (2.38%) jQuery
6 1 (2.38%) LINQ
6 1 (2.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (45.24%) NHS
2 7 (16.67%) LIMS
3 4 (9.52%) Life Science
3 4 (9.52%) Omics
3 4 (9.52%) PACS
4 3 (7.14%) Algorithms
4 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.38%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.38%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 9 (21.43%) Agile
3 7 (16.67%) API Integration
4 6 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 6 (14.29%) Project Management
5 5 (11.90%) Analytics
5 5 (11.90%) API Management
5 5 (11.90%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (11.90%) Line Management
5 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning
5 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 4 (9.52%) Data Governance
6 4 (9.52%) Data Science
6 4 (9.52%) Data Strategy
6 4 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (9.52%) Statistics
7 3 (7.14%) Ontologies
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) SQL
2 10 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.90%) Python
4 4 (9.52%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) R
6 1 (2.38%) C
6 1 (2.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) PhD
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) NVQ Level 3
3 1 (2.38%) PMP
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) SNOMED CT
2 6 (14.29%) DICOM
3 5 (11.90%) GDPR
4 4 (9.52%) CDISC
5 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (7.14%) GxP
6 2 (4.76%) QA
7 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
7 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (2.38%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.38%) Cerner
1 1 (2.38%) Foundry
1 1 (2.38%) Google
1 1 (2.38%) InterSystems
1 1 (2.38%) MEDITECH
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle
1 1 (2.38%) Palantir