HIPAA Job Trends

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring HIPAA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 586 775
Rank change year-on-year -46 +189 +205
Permanent jobs citing HIPAA 59 67 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.16% 0.064%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.69% 0.96% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15 43 27
10th Percentile £55,500 - £42,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £88,750 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -16.13%

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 8,597 6,949 12,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.50% 16.16% 14.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,865 3,763 8,749
10th Percentile £30,580 £30,750 £27,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -6.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,594 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.71% +12.83% -5.00%

HIPAA
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing HIPAA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

HIPAA job vacancy trend in the UK

HIPAA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HIPAA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HIPAA

HIPAA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing HIPAA over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Top 9 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 17 March 2026. 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 -27 58 £75,000 +5.26% 18
London +17 36 £90,000 +9.09% 11
UK excluding London -35 21 £75,000 +7.14% 13
East of England - 10 £75,000 - 2
Work from Home -6 7 £80,000 +23.08% 10
West Midlands +14 6 £55,000 - 1
Midlands -13 6 £55,000 - 1
South East -26 4 £82,500 +17.86% 6
South West -24 1 £40,000 -11.11% 1

HIPAA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (20.34%) Apache
1 12 (20.34%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (20.34%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (71.19%) AWS
2 28 (47.46%) Azure
3 21 (35.59%) Amazon SageMaker
3 21 (35.59%) Azure AI
3 21 (35.59%) Vertex AI
4 12 (20.34%) Amazon S3
4 12 (20.34%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.47%) AWS KMS
5 5 (8.47%) Boomi
5 5 (8.47%) Matillion
5 5 (8.47%) SaaS
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (5.08%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.39%) Cloudflare
7 2 (3.39%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) Network Security
2 3 (5.08%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (5.08%) VPN
3 1 (1.69%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Tableau
2 12 (20.34%) Apache Hive
2 12 (20.34%) Impala
2 12 (20.34%) Oracle Database
2 12 (20.34%) Parquet
2 12 (20.34%) Spark SQL
3 5 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.47%) Pentaho
3 5 (8.47%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (8.47%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) Git
2 12 (20.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 36 (61.02%) Finance
2 35 (59.32%) Banking
3 23 (38.98%) Pharmaceutical
4 21 (35.59%) Marketing
4 21 (35.59%) Retail
5 18 (30.51%) Legal
6 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
7 11 (18.64%) Investment Banking
8 6 (10.17%) Law
9 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
10 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
11 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.69%) Advertising
12 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (40.68%) Lead
2 15 (25.42%) Analyst
3 12 (20.34%) Technical Analyst
4 11 (18.64%) Banking Analyst
4 11 (18.64%) Transformation Analyst
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Senior
6 3 (5.08%) Account Executive
6 3 (5.08%) Administrator
6 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Security Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Consultant
7 2 (3.39%) IT Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) IT Security Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
7 2 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (1.69%) Information Officer
8 1 (1.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (28.81%) PySpark
2 1 (1.69%) LDAP
2 1 (1.69%) Loki
2 1 (1.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.29%) Life Science
2 21 (35.59%) Pharmacovigilance
3 5 (8.47%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.08%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.39%) Cyberattack
6 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.69%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.69%) PKI
7 1 (1.69%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Windows
1 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (62.71%) AI
2 34 (57.63%) Analytics
3 27 (45.76%) Computer Science
4 23 (38.98%) AI Transformation
4 23 (38.98%) Use Case
5 22 (37.29%) Machine Learning
6 21 (35.59%) Co-Creation
6 21 (35.59%) Collaborative Working
6 21 (35.59%) Conversational AI
6 21 (35.59%) Conversational UI
6 21 (35.59%) Customer Engagement
6 21 (35.59%) Data Science
6 21 (35.59%) Demand Forecasting
6 21 (35.59%) Enterprise Architecture
6 21 (35.59%) Fraud Detection
6 21 (35.59%) Matrix Organization
6 21 (35.59%) Personalization
6 21 (35.59%) Presales
6 21 (35.59%) TOGAF
6 21 (35.59%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.90%) Python
2 17 (28.81%) SQL
3 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.69%) Bash
4 1 (1.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 29 (49.15%) Degree
2 26 (44.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (37.29%) Master's Degree
4 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
5 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
6 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (5.08%) CISM
7 3 (5.08%) CISSP
8 1 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.69%) CCNP
8 1 (1.69%) CCSP
8 1 (1.69%) CEH
8 1 (1.69%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (1.69%) CISA
8 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.69%) GIAC
8 1 (1.69%) MCITP
8 1 (1.69%) MCSA
8 1 (1.69%) MCSE
8 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (93.22%) GDPR
2 21 (35.59%) EU AI Act
2 21 (35.59%) PSD2
2 21 (35.59%) Solvency II
3 18 (30.51%) Data Quality
4 16 (27.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (23.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (16.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (13.56%) NIST
7 8 (13.56%) SOC 2
8 5 (8.47%) PCI DSS
9 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
9 3 (5.08%) GRC
10 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (1.69%) GxP
10 1 (1.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.69%) Argo
3 1 (1.69%) CASB
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) Google
2 13 (22.03%) Oracle
3 12 (20.34%) Red Hat
4 9 (15.25%) Microsoft
5 5 (8.47%) Informatica
5 5 (8.47%) MuleSoft
5 5 (8.47%) Talend
6 2 (3.39%) Meraki
7 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.69%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.69%) Thales
7 1 (1.69%) VMware
7 1 (1.69%) Workday