HIPAA Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 149 123 135
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.21% 0.097% 0.036%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.61% 0.71% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £545 £513 -
25th Percentile £566 £515 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £536 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% - -
75th Percentile £617 £565 -
90th Percentile £619 £571 -
England median daily rate £525 £545 £438
% change year-on-year -3.67% +24.57% -12.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 373 280 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.36% 13.59% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 178 244
10th Percentile £311 £297 £272
25th Percentile £363 £364 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -8.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £580
90th Percentile £640 £682 £694
England median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 55
10th Percentile £25.14 £16.16 £11.31
25th Percentile £41.13 £20.83 £13.52
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.38 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +125.57% +37.60% -58.31%
75th Percentile £63.40 £32.45 £36.32
90th Percentile £71.00 £62.63 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £26.24
% change year-on-year -18.86% +21.04% -25.03%

HIPAA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

HIPAA job vacancy trend in the North West

HIPAA
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HIPAA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing HIPAA

HIPAA
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HIPAA within the North West 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
Manchester - 4 £583 -
Cheshire -19 2 £579 +5.32% 1
HIPAA
England

HIPAA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (83.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Security Posture
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security Posture
2 4 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Security
2 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Data Discovery
2 5 (83.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (66.67%) Data Privacy
3 4 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) Security Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 4 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) OWASP
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) CISM
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) GDPR
2 5 (83.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Varonis
2 2 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle