Principle of Least Privilege Contracts in England

Principle of Least Privilege
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 477 540 651
Rank change year-on-year +63 +111 -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.033% 0.005% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.006% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £500 £675 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £458
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +53.01% -
75th Percentile £890 £725 £461
90th Percentile £1,100 - -
UK median daily rate £613 £700 £448
% change year-on-year -12.50% +56.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principle of Least Privilege in England

Principle of Least Privilege
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Principle of Least Privilege in England

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Principle of Least Privilege in England

Principle of Least Privilege
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +42 6 £625 -10.71% 4
Midlands - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Principle of Least Privilege
UK

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Engagement Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) BYOD
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) RBAC
2 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Cost Control
4 3 (37.50%) Cost Management
4 3 (37.50%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (37.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
4 3 (37.50%) Security Operations
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
1 3 (37.50%) HIPAA
1 3 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Okta
3 2 (25.00%) CyberArk