Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring HIPAA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited HIPAA over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 617 845 927
Rank change year-on-year +228 +82 +155
Permanent jobs citing HIPAA 88 52 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.053% 0.050%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.96% 0.38% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 61 28 43
10th Percentile - £42,125 £68,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -16.13% +29.17%
75th Percentile £96,250 £85,625 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -16.13% -6.06%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

HIPAA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,186 13,612 18,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.65% 13.74% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,701 9,245 8,785
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +4.39%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing HIPAA.

Salary trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HIPAA over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HIPAA within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +181 82 £75,000 +15.38% 147
London +134 50 £82,500 +26.92% 90
Work from Home +168 42 £60,000 - 86
UK excluding London +181 34 £70,000 +7.69% 71
South East +88 15 £70,000 +7.69% 32
North of England +66 12 £72,500 - 10
North West +8 11 £72,500 - 6
South West +118 3 £55,000 - 8
Northern Ireland - 2 - - 3
Midlands - 2 - - 10
West Midlands - 2 - - 5
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4

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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.14%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (51.14%) Azure
2 36 (40.91%) AWS
3 19 (21.59%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (20.45%) Serverless
5 17 (19.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (19.32%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (18.18%) GCP
7 13 (14.77%) AWS KMS
7 13 (14.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (4.55%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.41%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.41%) IaaS
11 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
11 3 (3.41%) PaaS
11 3 (3.41%) SaaS
11 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.14%) Network Security
2 13 (14.77%) Firewall
3 11 (12.50%) VPN
4 2 (2.27%) DNS
5 1 (1.14%) BGP
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.14%) Intranet
5 1 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.14%) LAN
5 1 (1.14%) NAS
5 1 (1.14%) OSPF
5 1 (1.14%) SAN
5 1 (1.14%) SSL
5 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.14%) VLAN
5 1 (1.14%) WAN
5 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.14%) Wireless
5 1 (1.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.27%) Big Data
3 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.27%) Metadata
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) Power BI
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.91%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 59 (67.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Publishing
5 5 (5.68%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Front Office
6 4 (4.55%) Legal
7 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.14%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Architect
2 21 (23.86%) AWS Architect
3 15 (17.05%) Cloud Architect
4 10 (11.36%) Lead
4 10 (11.36%) Senior
5 8 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Governance Manager
5 8 (9.09%) Information Manager
5 8 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Technical Architect
6 7 (7.95%) DevOps Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Information Governance Manager
6 7 (7.95%) Information Security Manager
6 7 (7.95%) Security Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Security Manager
6 7 (7.95%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Technical Leader
6 7 (7.95%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.45%) Kafka
2 16 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (13.64%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.14%) MEAN Stack
4 1 (1.14%) Node.js
4 1 (1.14%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 37 (42.05%) Management Information System
2 16 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 13 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (9.09%) Security Posture
5 7 (7.95%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (7.95%) Freedom of Information
5 7 (7.95%) Freedom of Information Act
6 3 (3.41%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.27%) PKI
8 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.14%) Life Science
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) CentOS
2 3 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.41%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (55.68%) DevOps
2 48 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 41 (46.59%) Containerisation
4 36 (40.91%) Microservices
5 33 (37.50%) Data Protection
6 32 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 29 (32.95%) Computer Science
8 28 (31.82%) Cloud Security
8 28 (31.82%) Mentoring
8 28 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (30.68%) Architectural Design
10 26 (29.55%) Technical Leadership
11 25 (28.41%) Cybersecurity
12 22 (25.00%) Agile
12 22 (25.00%) Incident Response
12 22 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
13 21 (23.86%) Security Architecture
14 20 (22.73%) Architectural Patterns
14 20 (22.73%) Design Patterns
15 19 (21.59%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.68%) Java
2 22 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 21 (23.86%) Python
4 11 (12.50%) SQL
5 10 (11.36%) Bash
6 7 (7.95%) C#
7 3 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.27%) C++
9 1 (1.14%) R
9 1 (1.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (43.18%) Degree
2 28 (31.82%) AWS Certification
3 27 (30.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (27.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (27.27%) Azure Certification
5 20 (22.73%) Security Cleared
6 16 (18.18%) CISSP
7 14 (15.91%) SC Cleared
8 10 (11.36%) CISM
9 7 (7.95%) CISA
9 7 (7.95%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 7 (7.95%) PMI Certification
9 7 (7.95%) PMP
10 5 (5.68%) CEH
11 4 (4.55%) Master's Degree
12 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (3.41%) Linux+ Certification
12 3 (3.41%) OSCP
12 3 (3.41%) RHCE
13 2 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (90.91%) GDPR
2 28 (31.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (26.14%) NIST
4 22 (25.00%) SOC 2
5 9 (10.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (10.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (5.68%) GxP
7 3 (3.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (2.27%) NCSC
8 2 (2.27%) NIST 800
8 2 (2.27%) PCI DSS
9 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.14%) COBIT
9 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.14%) FISMA
9 1 (1.14%) GLBA
9 1 (1.14%) GRC
9 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 39 (44.32%) Docker
2 12 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.82%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.41%) Dovecot
4 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.41%) Postfix
4 3 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 32 (36.36%) Terraform
3 18 (20.45%) Grafana
3 18 (20.45%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.95%) Ansible
5 3 (3.41%) QRadar
6 2 (2.27%) Nessus
7 1 (1.14%) Bugsnag
7 1 (1.14%) Kibana
7 1 (1.14%) logstash
7 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Google
3 6 (6.82%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.68%) Splunk
4 5 (5.68%) Tanium
5 4 (4.55%) Cisco
6 3 (3.41%) NetApp
6 3 (3.41%) Okta
6 3 (3.41%) Ping Identity
6 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.41%) VMware
7 2 (2.27%) FireEye
8 1 (1.14%) Databricks
8 1 (1.14%) Informatica
8 1 (1.14%) Meraki
8 1 (1.14%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.14%) Talend