Principle of Least Privilege Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Principle of Least Privilege
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Principle of Least Privilege skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £425 -
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Principle of Least Privilege falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 683 556 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.01% 89.25% 85.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 376 373
10th Percentile £254 £200 £275
25th Percentile £400 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -3.06%
75th Percentile £588 £648 £588
90th Percentile £648 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 15 34
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.52
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £18.86
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -29.82% +208.11%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £68.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £24.65
% change year-on-year -5.05% -12.41% +39.27%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Principle of Least Privilege relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft