Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HIPAA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HIPAA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 674 828
Rank change year-on-year +121 +154 -164
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 45 45 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.075% 0.024%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.72% 0.56% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 16
10th Percentile £290 £500 £382
25th Percentile £405 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +8.70% +43.57%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £678
90th Percentile £788 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -12.50% +2.04% +1.03%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

HIPAA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,212 7,992 11,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.35% 13.36% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,921 5,491 8,030
10th Percentile £297 £275 £292
25th Percentile £405 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 225 302
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.16 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £62.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £67.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £35.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -48.57% +66.27% +0.24%

HIPAA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing HIPAA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HIPAA.

Daily rate trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HIPAA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HIPAA.

Hourly rate trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +138 42 £488 -22.00% 29
UK excluding London +86 30 £438 -12.50% 12
South West +37 16 - -
Work from Home +116 10 £525 -16.00% 16
London +91 10 £575 -8.00% 15
West Midlands +39 10 £438 -16.67% 1
Midlands +32 10 £438 -16.67% 4
Scotland - 2 £325 - 1
North of England +30 1 - - 3
South East +25 1 £438 -12.50% 3
North West +15 1 - - 1

HIPAA
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.89%) Apache Solr
1 4 (8.89%) nginx
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Teamcenter
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.22%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) Azure
2 6 (13.33%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (8.89%) DNS
3 4 (8.89%) HTTPS
3 4 (8.89%) IPsec
3 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.44%) Network Security
5 1 (2.22%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (2.22%) SSL
5 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) MySQL
2 4 (8.89%) Couchbase
2 4 (8.89%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.22%) DB2
5 1 (2.22%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (33.33%) Legal
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (17.78%) Manufacturing
5 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.89%) Finance
7 3 (6.67%) Banking
7 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Arabic Language
9 1 (2.22%) French Language
9 1 (2.22%) German Language
9 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.22%) Japanese Language
9 1 (2.22%) Korean Language
9 1 (2.22%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Architect
2 10 (22.22%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Lead
2 10 (22.22%) SOC Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Lead Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Developer
4 4 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Full Stack Developer
7 1 (2.22%) Information Security Architect
7 1 (2.22%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) Senior Full Stack Developer
7 1 (2.22%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) XML
2 5 (11.11%) JSON
3 4 (8.89%) HTML
3 4 (8.89%) LEMP Stack
3 4 (8.89%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (8.89%) SOAP
3 4 (8.89%) YAML
4 3 (6.67%) CSS
5 1 (2.22%) .NET
5 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.22%) Ajax
5 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.22%) jQuery
5 1 (2.22%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.22%) TIBCO EMS
5 1 (2.22%) Vue
5 1 (2.22%) XSD
5 1 (2.22%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (17.78%) CESG
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.89%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.44%) CMDB
6 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (35.56%) Linux
2 10 (22.22%) Mac OS X
3 4 (8.89%) CentOS
4 2 (4.44%) Unix
4 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (40.00%) Information Security
3 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (35.56%) Risk Management
5 15 (33.33%) SIEM
6 13 (28.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 11 (24.44%) Incident Management
7 11 (24.44%) Information Assurance
7 11 (24.44%) Security Operations
7 11 (24.44%) Threat Analysis
7 11 (24.44%) Vulnerability Management
8 10 (22.22%) Computer Forensics
8 10 (22.22%) Malware Reverse Engineering
8 10 (22.22%) Purple Team
8 10 (22.22%) Reverse Engineering
8 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (20.00%) DevOps
10 8 (17.78%) Migration
10 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (15.56%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
1 4 (8.89%) PHP
2 3 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) C#
3 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (24.44%) CISSP
4 9 (20.00%) CISA
4 9 (20.00%) CISM
4 9 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
4 9 (20.00%) SSCP
5 8 (17.78%) CEH
5 8 (17.78%) CISMP
5 8 (17.78%) Degree
5 8 (17.78%) ISACA
6 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.22%) CCNP
7 1 (2.22%) CCSP
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (86.67%) GDPR
2 32 (71.11%) NIST
3 30 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (31.11%) PCI DSS
5 11 (24.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (8.89%) GRC
6 4 (8.89%) QA
7 3 (6.67%) SOC 2
8 1 (2.22%) COBIT
8 1 (2.22%) FedRAMP
8 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (2.22%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Ansible
1 5 (11.11%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.22%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.44%) Workday
5 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Okta
5 1 (2.22%) Qualys
5 1 (2.22%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.22%) Veracode