Principle of Least Privilege Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Principle of Least Privilege
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Principle of Least Privilege skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £499 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 - -
75th Percentile £682 - -
90th Percentile £695 - -
England median daily rate £575 £563 £700
% change year-on-year +2.22% -19.64% +53.01%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,916 2,919 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 86.37% 90.09% 86.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 1,847 2,591
10th Percentile £270 £263 £281
25th Percentile £382 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £572 £580
90th Percentile £643 £650 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 152 367
10th Percentile £15.57 £15.00 £11.04
25th Percentile £22.63 £20.14 £12.77
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% +59.72% -37.61%
75th Percentile £67.96 £49.06 £44.74
90th Percentile £74.56 £77.38 £52.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend in the North of England

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Principle of Least Privilege in the North of England

Principle of Least Privilege
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
North West - 6 £605 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £325 - 3
Principle of Least Privilege
England

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

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Anthos
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Network Segmentation
1 6 (85.71%) Security Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Zero Trust
2 4 (57.14%) RBAC
3 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) Cyber Resilience
3 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) GitOps
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Key Management
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) NIST
2 3 (42.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Istio
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox