Principle of Least Privilege Contracts in the City of London

Principle of Least Privilege
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Principle of Least Privilege skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Principle of Least Privilege over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 176
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £619 - -
25th Percentile £629 - £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 - £458
75th Percentile £670 - £461
90th Percentile £676 - -
Central London median daily rate £653 - £458

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Principle of Least Privilege as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Principle of Least Privilege in the City of London

Principle of Least Privilege
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Principle of Least Privilege in the City of London

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Cognito
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Engagement Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform