HIPAA Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring HIPAA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.30% 0.23% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.33% 1.43% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £554 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% - -
75th Percentile £602 £575 -
90th Percentile £613 - -
North West median daily rate £583 £536 -
% change year-on-year +8.62% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheshire

HIPAA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 86 70 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.11% 16.13% 23.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 48 66
10th Percentile £325 £291 £265
25th Percentile £360 £356 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -9.14% +43.88%
75th Percentile £511 £538 £550
90th Percentile £585 £585 £580
North West median daily rate £447 £459 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -8.25% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 15
10th Percentile - £21.05 £16.93
25th Percentile - £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate - £24.18 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year - -9.30% +65.90%
75th Percentile - £31.92 £43.75
90th Percentile - £52.25 -
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £24.38 £17.72
% change year-on-year +125.57% +37.60% -58.31%

HIPAA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HIPAA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

HIPAA job vacancy trend in Cheshire

HIPAA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing HIPAA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing HIPAA

HIPAA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HIPAA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 2 £579 - 1
HIPAA
North West

HIPAA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Discovery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) OWASP
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISM
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CyberArk
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Varonis