Principle of Least Privilege Contract Job Trends in the South West

Principle of Least Privilege
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 144 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.059% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £601 £625 £700
% change year-on-year -3.92% -10.71% +53.01%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,705 1,574 2,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.37% 90.98% 82.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 954 1,690
10th Percentile £325 £218 £225
25th Percentile £413 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 167 361
10th Percentile £16.44 £18.13 £13.86
25th Percentile £28.50 £18.87 £29.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £33.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.24% -40.00% -8.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
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 the South West

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

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend in the South West

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Principle of Least Privilege.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Principle of Least Privilege

Principle of Least Privilege
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 1
Somerset - 1 £450 -
Principle of Least Privilege
England

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware