Principle of Least Privilege Contract Job Trends in London

Principle of Least Privilege
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Principle of Least Privilege skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 344 387
Rank change year-on-year -70 +43 +85
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 4 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.022% 0.058% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.063% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile £288 - -
25th Percentile £344 £500 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +53.01%
75th Percentile £744 £681 £725
90th Percentile £823 £932 -
England median daily rate £601 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -3.92% -10.71% +53.01%

All Process & 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 16,370 11,170 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 7,467 11,030
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £429 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 194 318
10th Percentile £18.34 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend in London

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 5 June 2026.

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 5 June 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
Central London -9 1 £300 -54.04% 1
Principle of Least Privilege
England

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Chief Information Security Officer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) CyberArk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Anti-Spyware
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk