Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HIPAA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HIPAA over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 643 845
Rank change year-on-year +124 +202 -159
Contract jobs citing HIPAA 60 51 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.089% 0.020%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.99% 0.67% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 12
10th Percentile £367 £500 £425
25th Percentile £406 £594 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +33.95%
75th Percentile £609 £681 £678
90th Percentile £726 £713 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £675
% change year-on-year -12.50% -25.93% +39.18%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

HIPAA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6,035 7,662 11,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.19% 13.38% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,843 5,232 8,045
10th Percentile £280 £281 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £743 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £480 £450
% change year-on-year +0.10% +6.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 381 242 315
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.33 £12.03
25th Percentile £13.18 £18.71 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +16.67% +42.86%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £50.39
90th Percentile £68.75 £77.35 £68.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £31.89 £22.50
% change year-on-year -42.70% +41.71% +7.14%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HIPAA.

Daily rate trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HIPAA over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HIPAA.

Hourly rate trend for HIPAA in the UK

HIPAA
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HIPAA within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 52 £538 -14.00% 32
UK excluding London +81 38 £438 -12.50% 18
Work from Home +102 17 £550 -12.00% 16
South West +24 16 - -
Midlands +31 14 £438 -16.67% 4
London +87 11 £575 -8.00% 15
West Midlands +31 11 £438 -16.67% 2
North of England +31 5 £506 +12.44% 3
Yorkshire +21 4 £506 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £575 - 2
Scotland - 2 £325 - 1
South East +20 1 £438 -12.50% 8
North West +15 1 - - 1

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 (6.67%) Apache Solr
1 4 (6.67%) nginx
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.67%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.00%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) AWS
2 18 (30.00%) GCP
3 9 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (13.33%) Twilio
5 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 19 (31.67%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) CTI
2 8 (13.33%) VoIP
3 7 (11.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (11.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (6.67%) DNS
4 4 (6.67%) HTTPS
4 4 (6.67%) IPsec
4 4 (6.67%) VPN
5 3 (5.00%) BGP
5 3 (5.00%) MPLS
5 3 (5.00%) Network Security
5 3 (5.00%) OSPF
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) MySQL
2 4 (6.67%) Couchbase
2 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) DB2
5 1 (1.67%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (3.33%) Burp Suite
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Legal
3 15 (25.00%) Finance
4 14 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 8 (13.33%) Retail
5 8 (13.33%) Telecoms
6 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
7 5 (8.33%) Banking
8 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.67%) French Language
10 1 (1.67%) German Language
10 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.67%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.67%) Korean Language
10 1 (1.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (45.00%) Architect
2 11 (18.33%) Analyst
2 11 (18.33%) Lead
2 11 (18.33%) SOC Analyst
2 11 (18.33%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (13.33%) Lead Architect
3 8 (13.33%) Security Architect
4 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 3 (5.00%) Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Security Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Consultant
6 2 (3.33%) IT Architect
6 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (1.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
7 1 (1.67%) Information Security Architect
7 1 (1.67%) IT Engineer
7 1 (1.67%) TIBCO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Middleware
1 8 (13.33%) Web Services
2 7 (11.67%) XML
3 5 (8.33%) JSON
4 4 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 4 (6.67%) gRPC
4 4 (6.67%) JWT
4 4 (6.67%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (6.67%) OAuth
4 4 (6.67%) OpenAPI
4 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.67%) RESTful
4 4 (6.67%) SOAP
4 4 (6.67%) Swagger
4 4 (6.67%) YAML
5 3 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (3.33%) CSS
7 1 (1.67%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (1.67%) XSD
7 1 (1.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.33%) CESG
2 8 (13.33%) IVR
3 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.33%) CMDB
4 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.33%) Linux
2 11 (18.33%) Mac OS X
3 4 (6.67%) CentOS
4 3 (5.00%) Windows
5 2 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
2 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 17 (28.33%) Data Privacy
3 17 (28.33%) DevOps
3 17 (28.33%) Information Security
4 16 (26.67%) Agile
4 16 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (25.00%) SIEM
6 14 (23.33%) Analytics
6 14 (23.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 13 (21.67%) Threat Analysis
7 13 (21.67%) Vulnerability Management
8 12 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 12 (20.00%) Security Operations
9 11 (18.33%) Capacity Planning
9 11 (18.33%) Computer Forensics
9 11 (18.33%) Incident Management
9 11 (18.33%) Malware Reverse Engineering
9 11 (18.33%) Purple Team
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) Java
1 4 (6.67%) PHP
1 4 (6.67%) Python
2 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.67%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (36.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (25.00%) Degree
4 12 (20.00%) CISSP
5 10 (16.67%) Master's Degree
6 9 (15.00%) AWS Certification
6 9 (15.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (15.00%) CISA
6 9 (15.00%) CISM
6 9 (15.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 9 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (15.00%) SSCP
7 8 (13.33%) Azure Certification
7 8 (13.33%) CEH
7 8 (13.33%) CISMP
7 8 (13.33%) ISACA
8 1 (1.67%) CCNP
8 1 (1.67%) CCSP
8 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (88.33%) GDPR
2 32 (53.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (53.33%) NIST
3 27 (45.00%) PCI DSS
4 12 (20.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (16.67%) SOC 2
6 4 (6.67%) GRC
6 4 (6.67%) QA
7 1 (1.67%) COBIT
7 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
7 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.67%) Ansible
2 4 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.67%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Google
2 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.33%) Avaya
3 8 (13.33%) Cisco
3 8 (13.33%) Genesys
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (3.33%) Checkmarx
5 2 (3.33%) Qualys
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.33%) Veracode
5 2 (3.33%) Workday
6 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) Okta
6 1 (1.67%) TIBCO