HIPAA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HIPAA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HIPAA over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 369 447
Rank change year-on-year +60 +78 +68
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 25 34 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.16% 0.038%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.21% 1.10% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 6
10th Percentile £328 £288 £450
25th Percentile £370 £388 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -12.50% -14.16%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £528
90th Percentile £535 £585 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% -3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,065 3,098 3,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.15% 14.99% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,295 1,815 2,383
10th Percentile £211 £254 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £478
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.09% +6.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £666 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 308 185
10th Percentile £17.31 £10.95 £12.67
25th Percentile £24.18 £12.58 £18.09
Median hourly rate £46.30 £18.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +157.22% -48.57% +66.27%
75th Percentile £66.56 £45.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.51 £67.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +65.85% -40.56% +26.13%

HIPAA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HIPAA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HIPAA in the UK excluding London

HIPAA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HIPAA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for HIPAA in the UK excluding London

HIPAA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HIPAA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HIPAA in the UK excluding London

HIPAA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HIPAA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +54 15 £450 +2.86% 30
Midlands +3 3 £440 +0.46% 4
South West +26 2 - - 4
North of England +18 2 £536 - 15
North West +16 2 £536 - 11
East Midlands +11 2 £440 -23.57% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
West Midlands +6 1 £525 +20.00% 2
East of England - 1 - - 4
HIPAA
UK

HIPAA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 9 (36.00%) GCP
3 6 (24.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.00%) Metadata
3 2 (8.00%) NewSQL
3 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (8.00%) Metasploit
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Legal
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.00%) Billing
6 1 (4.00%) Automotive
6 1 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Local Government
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Information Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Information Security Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Security Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Information Officer
5 1 (4.00%) Information Security Advisor
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) OAuth
2 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (8.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.00%) OpenID
2 2 (8.00%) SAML
2 2 (8.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.00%) Replication
4 1 (4.00%) CESG
4 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.00%) Life Science
4 1 (4.00%) LIMS
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Licensing
4 1 (4.00%) NHS
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (40.00%) Data Security
3 9 (36.00%) Information Security
4 8 (32.00%) Migration
4 8 (32.00%) RBAC
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (24.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (24.00%) Data Management
5 6 (24.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 5 (20.00%) ETL
6 5 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) C
4 2 (8.00%) C++
4 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) Ruby
4 2 (8.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) CISSP
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) CISM
4 3 (12.00%) CEH
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (8.00%) CISA
5 2 (8.00%) CISMP
5 2 (8.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (8.00%) CRISC
5 2 (8.00%) GPEN
5 2 (8.00%) GWAPT
5 2 (8.00%) OSCE
5 2 (8.00%) OSCP
5 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) ISACA
6 1 (4.00%) SnowPro
6 1 (4.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (92.00%) GDPR
2 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (16.00%) NIST
3 4 (16.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (12.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (8.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (8.00%) GRC
6 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (4.00%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (4.00%) GxP
6 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) IBM
2 2 (8.00%) Ping Identity
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) Varonis