HIPAA Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 111 144
Rank change year-on-year -34 +33 +15
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 1 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.028% 0.11% 0.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.19% 0.64% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 523 314 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.68% 17.84% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 184 304
10th Percentile £350 £235 £263
25th Percentile £413 £398 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year - +1.45% -5.91%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £590
90th Percentile £678 £696 £690
England median daily rate £503 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 34 84
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.06 £12.24
25th Percentile £20.83 £31.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +36.84% -26.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.84 -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £24.09
% change year-on-year +10.77% +34.91% -39.17%

HIPAA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

HIPAA job vacancy trend in the South West

HIPAA
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

HIPAA
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Gloucestershire - 1 £450 -
HIPAA
England

HIPAA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) CEH
1 1 (100.00%) CISA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google