Principle of Least Privilege Contract Job Trends in England

Principle of Least Privilege
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Principle of Least Privilege skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 483 561
Rank change year-on-year -46 +78 +161
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 14 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.043% 0.023% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.025% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £456 - £380
25th Percentile £472 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -15.91% +20.22%
75th Percentile £623 £500 £675
90th Percentile £725 - £720
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £19.04 - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.31 - -
75th Percentile £22.07 - -
90th Percentile £22.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £20.31 - -

All Process & 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 28,849 23,705 33,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.71% 89.48% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 14,499 22,354
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,790 754 1,912
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend in England

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Principle of Least Privilege.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Principle of Least Privilege

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 February 2026.

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 February 2026. 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 -28 8 £600 +20.00% 1
West Midlands -39 2 £519 +22.06%
Midlands -52 2 £519 +22.06%
East of England - 2 - -
South East - 1 £500 -
Principle of Least Privilege
UK

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

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 2 (14.29%) Slack
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.14%) BGP
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
3 1 (7.14%) Kerberos
3 1 (7.14%) MPLS
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) OSPF
3 1 (7.14%) SMTP
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (7.14%) Police
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Information Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Information Security Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Junior
2 2 (14.29%) Junior Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Junior Information Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Junior Information Security Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Junior Security Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) OAuth
1 4 (28.57%) SAML
2 3 (21.43%) OpenID
3 2 (14.29%) LDAP
3 2 (14.29%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.14%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
1 3 (21.43%) Security Posture
2 2 (14.29%) BYOD
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) CESG
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 6 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (42.86%) RBAC
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 4 (28.57%) Information Security
3 4 (28.57%) SIEM
3 4 (28.57%) Zero Trust
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (21.43%) Privileged Identity Management
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Records Management
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (21.43%) Sprint Review
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Apex Code
3 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) CISSP
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CCIE
5 1 (7.14%) CCNP
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (7.14%) CISM
5 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) GIAC
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (7.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (7.14%) COBIT
1 1 (7.14%) COSO
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) RMADS
1 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Arista
3 1 (7.14%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper
3 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto