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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 595 831 946
Rank change year-on-year +236 +115 +125
Permanent jobs citing HIPAA 89 54 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.055% 0.039%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.01% 0.40% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 61 30 34
10th Percentile - £42,375 £67,250
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% +31.91%
75th Percentile £96,250 £76,563 £91,250
90th Percentile £102,750 £112,500 £111,625
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 8,850 13,541 19,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.97% 13.77% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 9,268 9,195
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £73,750 £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% +5.04%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +221 83 £75,000 +15.38% 97
London +132 51 £83,750 +28.85% 64
Work from Home +213 42 £60,000 -9.43% 55
UK excluding London +211 34 £70,000 +7.69% 36
South East +108 17 £70,000 +7.69% 13
North of England +93 11 £72,500 - 11
North West +41 10 £72,500 - 8
South West +114 2 £50,000 - 5
Midlands - 2 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3

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 (4.49%) Confluence
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 44 (49.44%) Azure
2 35 (39.33%) AWS
3 20 (22.47%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (21.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (19.10%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (19.10%) Serverless
6 14 (15.73%) Azure Sentinel
6 14 (15.73%) GCP
7 13 (14.61%) AWS KMS
8 12 (13.48%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (5.62%) Azure Key Vault
9 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.49%) IaaS
10 4 (4.49%) PaaS
10 4 (4.49%) SaaS
10 4 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (3.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (26.97%) Network Security
2 14 (15.73%) Firewall
3 11 (12.36%) VPN
4 2 (2.25%) DNS
5 1 (1.12%) BGP
5 1 (1.12%) DHCP
5 1 (1.12%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.12%) Intranet
5 1 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.12%) LAN
5 1 (1.12%) NAS
5 1 (1.12%) OSPF
5 1 (1.12%) SAN
5 1 (1.12%) SSL
5 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.12%) VLAN
5 1 (1.12%) WAN
5 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.12%) Wireless
5 1 (1.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.37%) Big Data
2 3 (3.37%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.25%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
4 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.73%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.37%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
General
1 63 (70.79%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Finance
3 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.11%) Publishing
4 5 (5.62%) Banking
4 5 (5.62%) Front Office
5 4 (4.49%) Legal
6 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 31 (34.83%) Architect
2 19 (21.35%) AWS Architect
3 16 (17.98%) Cloud Architect
4 11 (12.36%) Senior
5 10 (11.24%) Governance Manager
5 10 (11.24%) Information Manager
6 9 (10.11%) Information Governance Manager
6 9 (10.11%) Lead
7 8 (8.99%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Security Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Senior Architect
8 7 (7.87%) Information Security Manager
8 7 (7.87%) Lead Architect
8 7 (7.87%) Security Manager
8 7 (7.87%) Technical Architect
8 7 (7.87%) Technical Leader
9 6 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) DevOps Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.22%) Kafka
2 17 (19.10%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (13.48%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.12%) MEAN Stack
4 1 (1.12%) Node.js
4 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 37 (41.57%) Management Information System
2 15 (16.85%) Cloud Native
3 12 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (10.11%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (10.11%) Freedom of Information
4 9 (10.11%) Freedom of Information Act
5 8 (8.99%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.37%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.25%) PKI
8 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.12%) Life Science
8 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) CentOS
2 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.37%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (57.30%) DevOps
2 47 (52.81%) CI/CD
3 41 (46.07%) Containerisation
4 36 (40.45%) Data Protection
5 34 (38.20%) Microservices
6 32 (35.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (32.58%) Cloud Security
8 29 (32.58%) Computer Science
9 28 (31.46%) Cybersecurity
10 26 (29.21%) Architectural Design
10 26 (29.21%) Mentoring
11 25 (28.09%) Technical Leadership
12 22 (24.72%) Incident Response
12 22 (24.72%) Regulatory Compliance
13 21 (23.60%) Agile
13 21 (23.60%) Information Security
13 21 (23.60%) Security Architecture
14 20 (22.47%) Design Patterns
14 20 (22.47%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.21%) Java
2 23 (25.84%) PowerShell
3 21 (23.60%) Python
4 11 (12.36%) SQL
5 10 (11.24%) Bash
6 6 (6.74%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.25%) C++
8 2 (2.25%) Scala
9 1 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 38 (42.70%) Degree
2 27 (30.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (29.21%) AWS Certification
4 24 (26.97%) Azure Certification
5 23 (25.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (21.35%) CISSP
7 18 (20.22%) Security Cleared
8 14 (15.73%) SC Cleared
9 12 (13.48%) CISM
10 9 (10.11%) CISA
10 9 (10.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 7 (7.87%) PMI Certification
11 7 (7.87%) PMP
12 6 (6.74%) CEH
13 4 (4.49%) Master's Degree
14 3 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (3.37%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (3.37%) OSCP
14 3 (3.37%) RHCE
15 2 (2.25%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (88.76%) GDPR
2 28 (31.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (24.72%) NIST
4 20 (22.47%) SOC 2
5 11 (12.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (12.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (5.62%) GxP
7 3 (3.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (2.25%) NCSC
8 2 (2.25%) NIST 800
8 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
9 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.12%) COBIT
9 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.12%) FISMA
9 1 (1.12%) GLBA
9 1 (1.12%) GRC
9 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 38 (42.70%) Docker
2 12 (13.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.37%) Dovecot
4 3 (3.37%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.37%) Postfix
4 3 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (42.70%) Kubernetes
2 34 (38.20%) Terraform
3 18 (20.22%) Grafana
3 18 (20.22%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.87%) Ansible
5 3 (3.37%) QRadar
6 2 (2.25%) Nessus
7 1 (1.12%) Bugsnag
7 1 (1.12%) Kibana
7 1 (1.12%) logstash
7 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) Google
3 6 (6.74%) Palo Alto
4 5 (5.62%) Splunk
4 5 (5.62%) Tanium
5 4 (4.49%) Cisco
6 3 (3.37%) NetApp
6 3 (3.37%) Okta
6 3 (3.37%) Ping Identity
6 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.37%) VMware
7 2 (2.25%) Databricks
7 2 (2.25%) FireEye
7 2 (2.25%) Informatica
7 2 (2.25%) Talend
8 1 (1.12%) Meraki
8 1 (1.12%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.12%) SolarWinds