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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 610 849 917
Rank change year-on-year +239 +68 +189
Permanent jobs citing HIPAA 92 58 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.056% 0.053%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.00% 0.42% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 64 34 43
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,000 £65,500
25th Percentile £62,813 £62,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -16.13% +29.17%
75th Percentile £96,563 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -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 9,197 13,737 17,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.47% 13.25% 18.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,631 9,235 8,484
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £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% +4.17%

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 31 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 31 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 +203 87 £82,500 +26.92% 117
London +133 51 £90,000 +28.57% 78
Work from Home +154 45 £60,000 -11.11% 75
UK excluding London +186 37 £72,500 +11.54% 46
South East +69 17 £72,500 +11.54% 13
North of England +50 14 £72,500 - 5
North West +13 13 £72,500 - 3
South West +112 3 £85,000 - 4
Midlands - 2 - - 9
West Midlands - 2 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2

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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (56.52%) Azure
2 40 (43.48%) AWS
3 22 (23.91%) GCP
4 19 (20.65%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (18.48%) Serverless
6 16 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (16.30%) Azure Sentinel
8 12 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (11.96%) AWS KMS
10 5 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.26%) IaaS
12 3 (3.26%) OneDrive
12 3 (3.26%) PaaS
12 3 (3.26%) SaaS
12 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (22.83%) Network Security
2 14 (15.22%) Firewall
3 12 (13.04%) VPN
4 1 (1.09%) BGP
4 1 (1.09%) DHCP
4 1 (1.09%) DNS
4 1 (1.09%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.09%) Intranet
4 1 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.09%) LAN
4 1 (1.09%) NAS
4 1 (1.09%) OSPF
4 1 (1.09%) SAN
4 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.09%) SSL
4 1 (1.09%) VLAN
4 1 (1.09%) WAN
4 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.09%) Wireless
4 1 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.35%) Big Data
3 3 (3.26%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.09%) Metadata
5 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.26%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
General
1 61 (66.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Finance
3 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.52%) Publishing
5 5 (5.43%) Banking
5 5 (5.43%) Front Office
6 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Legal
7 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (43.48%) Architect
2 22 (23.91%) AWS Architect
3 15 (16.30%) Lead
4 13 (14.13%) Cloud Architect
5 12 (13.04%) Lead Architect
5 12 (13.04%) Senior
5 12 (13.04%) Technical Architect
6 11 (11.96%) Senior Architect
6 11 (11.96%) Technical Leader
7 10 (10.87%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (9.78%) AWS DevOps
8 9 (9.78%) AWS Solution Architect
8 9 (9.78%) DevOps Architect
8 9 (9.78%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (9.78%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 9 (9.78%) TOGAF Architect
9 8 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (8.70%) Integration Architect
9 8 (8.70%) Security Engineer
10 7 (7.61%) Information Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.57%) Kafka
2 14 (15.22%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (13.04%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.09%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.09%) MEAN Stack
4 1 (1.09%) Node.js
4 1 (1.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.09%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.09%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 38 (41.30%) Management Information System
2 18 (19.57%) Cloud Native
3 15 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (9.78%) Security Posture
5 6 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.52%) Freedom of Information
5 6 (6.52%) Freedom of Information Act
6 3 (3.26%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.26%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.17%) PKI
8 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.09%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.52%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Windows
2 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.26%) CentOS
3 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (57.61%) DevOps
2 51 (55.43%) CI/CD
3 42 (45.65%) Containerisation
4 37 (40.22%) Microservices
5 32 (34.78%) Data Protection
5 32 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (33.70%) Mentoring
7 30 (32.61%) Computer Science
7 30 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (31.52%) Architectural Design
8 29 (31.52%) Cloud Security
9 28 (30.43%) Technical Leadership
10 26 (28.26%) Agile
11 25 (27.17%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (25.00%) Incident Response
13 22 (23.91%) Regulatory Compliance
14 21 (22.83%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (22.83%) Security Architecture
15 20 (21.74%) Design Patterns
16 18 (19.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.61%) Java
2 25 (27.17%) Python
3 23 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 15 (16.30%) SQL
5 11 (11.96%) Bash
6 9 (9.78%) C#
7 4 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.26%) Scala
9 2 (2.17%) C++
10 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 40 (43.48%) Degree
2 29 (31.52%) AWS Certification
3 28 (30.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (28.26%) Azure Certification
5 25 (27.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (23.91%) Security Cleared
7 16 (17.39%) CISSP
8 13 (14.13%) SC Cleared
9 10 (10.87%) CISM
10 7 (7.61%) PMI Certification
10 7 (7.61%) PMP
11 6 (6.52%) CEH
11 6 (6.52%) CISA
11 6 (6.52%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 4 (4.35%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (4.35%) Master's Degree
12 4 (4.35%) OSCP
13 3 (3.26%) Linux+ Certification
13 3 (3.26%) RHCE
14 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (92.39%) GDPR
2 32 (34.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (29.35%) SOC 2
4 26 (28.26%) NIST
5 9 (9.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 8 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (5.43%) GxP
8 2 (2.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (2.17%) NCSC
8 2 (2.17%) NIST 800
9 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
9 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (42.39%) Docker
2 12 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (6.52%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.26%) Dovecot
4 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
4 3 (3.26%) Postfix
4 3 (3.26%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (44.57%) Kubernetes
2 31 (33.70%) Terraform
3 16 (17.39%) Grafana
3 16 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.61%) Ansible
5 4 (4.35%) QRadar
6 2 (2.17%) Nessus
7 1 (1.09%) Bugsnag
7 1 (1.09%) Kibana
7 1 (1.09%) logstash
7 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.04%) Google
3 7 (7.61%) Palo Alto
4 6 (6.52%) Splunk
5 5 (5.43%) Cisco
5 5 (5.43%) Tanium
6 3 (3.26%) Databricks
6 3 (3.26%) NetApp
6 3 (3.26%) Okta
6 3 (3.26%) Ping Identity
6 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.26%) VMware
7 2 (2.17%) FireEye
7 2 (2.17%) Informatica
7 2 (2.17%) Talend
8 1 (1.09%) Conga
8 1 (1.09%) Meraki
8 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.09%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds