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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 676 887 913
Rank change year-on-year +211 +26 +174
Permanent jobs citing HL7 26 20 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.019% 0.057%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.28% 0.15% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 18 20 34
10th Percentile £36,400 £37,100 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,436 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% +17.07% -7.05%
75th Percentile £79,375 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% +13.64%

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 9,197 13,737 17,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 13.25% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,631 9,235 8,484
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.17%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HL7.

Salary trend for HL7 in the UK

HL7
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HL7 over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +180 17 £70,000 +67.18% 18
UK excluding London +186 11 £75,000 +25.00% 12
North of England +41 5 - - 1
North West +5 5 - -
South East - 5 £80,000 - 2
London +106 4 £35,000 +4.48% 12
Work from Home +111 3 £55,000 -21.43% 17
South West - 1 £37,000 - 2

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 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Lorenzo
1 1 (3.85%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) Electronic Patient Records
2 8 (30.77%) MySQL
3 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
3 5 (19.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 14 (53.85%) Health Technology
2 5 (19.23%) Digital Healthcare
2 5 (19.23%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Health
4 1 (3.85%) Games
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Integration Specialist
2 9 (34.62%) Lead
3 5 (19.23%) Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 5 (19.23%) Digital Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Integration Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) EPR Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Information Systems Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.85%) IT Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (73.08%) FHIR
2 6 (23.08%) JSON
3 3 (11.54%) Middleware
4 2 (7.69%) .NET
4 2 (7.69%) jQuery
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.85%) CSS
5 1 (3.85%) CSS3
5 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.85%) HTML
5 1 (3.85%) HTML5
5 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (53.85%) NHS
2 5 (19.23%) LIMS
3 3 (11.54%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (11.54%) PACS
4 2 (7.69%) Life Science
5 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.85%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (3.85%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) API Integration
2 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (11.54%) Data Protection
4 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (7.69%) Service Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (7.69%) Workflow
6 1 (3.85%) Data Management
6 1 (3.85%) Data Security
6 1 (3.85%) DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) ETL
6 1 (3.85%) ITIL
6 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.85%) MVC
6 1 (3.85%) Programme Management
6 1 (3.85%) Scrum
6 1 (3.85%) Service Desk Management
6 1 (3.85%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (3.85%) C
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) R
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.85%) NVQ Level 3
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (38.46%) SNOMED CT
2 4 (15.38%) DICOM
3 3 (11.54%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.85%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) InterSystems
1 2 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (3.85%) Cerner
2 1 (3.85%) Foundry
2 1 (3.85%) Google
2 1 (3.85%) MEDITECH
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Palantir