HIPAA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 335 452
Rank change year-on-year +73 +117 +173
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 42 10 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.065% 0.097%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 2.82% 0.45% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 17
10th Percentile £405 £413 £520
25th Percentile £500 £431 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -16.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £651 £588 £638
90th Percentile £691 £595 £705
UK median daily rate £550 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +18.92% -26.00% -3.85%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,488 2,240 3,140
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.02% 14.60% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,532 2,292
10th Percentile £281 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £420 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £603 £623 £625
90th Percentile £713 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 63
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.75 £18.54
25th Percentile £23.13 £14.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £22.87 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.53% -46.81% -2.16%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.38 £61.88
90th Percentile £87.15 £65.00 £72.35
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £20.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.85% -44.53% +33.93%

HIPAA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing HIPAA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

HIPAA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

HIPAA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing HIPAA.

HIPAA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

HIPAA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing HIPAA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

HIPAA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

HIPAA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) AWS
3 8 (19.05%) Entra ID
3 8 (19.05%) GCP
4 3 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.19%) Firewall
2 7 (16.67%) Network Security
3 4 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (7.14%) VPN
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (4.76%) LAN
5 2 (4.76%) SNMP
5 2 (4.76%) TACACS
5 2 (4.76%) Wireless
5 2 (4.76%) WLAN
6 1 (2.38%) HTTP
6 1 (2.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) DB2
2 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) Metadata
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (4.76%) German Language
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Automotive
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Local Government
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Architect
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 5 (11.90%) Security Architect
4 4 (9.52%) AWS Specialist
4 4 (9.52%) IAM Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Governance Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Security Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Security Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Engagement Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Information Officer
6 2 (4.76%) Information Security Officer
6 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Risk Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Security Officer
7 1 (2.38%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) SailPoint
2 6 (14.29%) SAML
3 4 (9.52%) OpenID
4 3 (7.14%) OAuth
5 2 (4.76%) 802.1X
5 2 (4.76%) LDAP
6 1 (2.38%) .NET
6 1 (2.38%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Cyberattack
2 3 (7.14%) Life Science
2 3 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.76%) PMI
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.38%) FMCG
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) LIMS
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) Incident Response
2 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.19%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (23.81%) Risk Management
5 9 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (19.05%) Cloud Security
6 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (16.67%) Information Security
7 7 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 7 (16.67%) Project Management
7 7 (16.67%) RBAC
8 6 (14.29%) DevOps
8 6 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 6 (14.29%) Security Operations
8 6 (14.29%) SIEM
9 5 (11.90%) Identity Management
9 5 (11.90%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 5 (11.90%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (11.90%) Task Automation
10 4 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 14 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) C
3 2 (4.76%) Java
3 2 (4.76%) SQL
4 1 (2.38%) C++
4 1 (2.38%) PHP
4 1 (2.38%) Ruby
4 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (33.33%) CISSP
2 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) CISM
3 5 (11.90%) Degree
3 5 (11.90%) GIAC
3 5 (11.90%) SANS
4 4 (9.52%) CEH
4 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
5 3 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (7.14%) CRISC
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.76%) CCIE
6 2 (4.76%) CCIE Security
6 2 (4.76%) CCNA
6 2 (4.76%) CCNP
6 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.76%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (71.43%) GDPR
2 17 (40.48%) PCI DSS
3 13 (30.95%) NIST
4 12 (28.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (7.14%) GRC
7 2 (4.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (4.76%) QA
7 2 (4.76%) SOC 2
8 1 (2.38%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (11.90%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.38%) Ansible
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.38%) Nessus
3 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Okta
3 5 (11.90%) Palo Alto
4 4 (9.52%) Cisco
4 4 (9.52%) Ping Identity
5 3 (7.14%) ForgeRock
6 2 (4.76%) Ariba
6 2 (4.76%) Aruba
6 2 (4.76%) F5
6 2 (4.76%) Imperva
6 2 (4.76%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.76%) Tenable
6 2 (4.76%) VMware
7 1 (2.38%) Delphix
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Qualys
7 1 (2.38%) Varonis