Principle of Least Privilege Contracts in London

Principle of Least Privilege
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 347 389 491
Rank change year-on-year +42 +102 -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 6 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.011% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.013% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 £675 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £458
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +53.01% -
75th Percentile £681 £725 £461
90th Percentile £932 - -
England median daily rate £625 £700 £458
% change year-on-year -10.71% +53.01% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Principle of Least Privilege in London

Principle of Least Privilege
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Principle of Least Privilege in London

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Principle of Least Privilege in London

Principle of Least Privilege
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London - 2 £653 - 1
Principle of Least Privilege
England

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Engagement Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (50.00%) BYOD
2 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) RBAC
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (50.00%) Cost Control
3 3 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 3 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (50.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
1 2 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Okta