Principle of Least Privilege Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Principle of Least Privilege
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 394 340 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.015% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.016% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £465 - -
25th Percentile £478 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -
75th Percentile £544 £438 -
90th Percentile £570 - -
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,214 12,159 18,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.37% 88.62% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,944 7,142 11,375
10th Percentile £230 £231 £250
25th Percentile £381 £380 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.05% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,741 666 1,667
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.47 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.13 £20.12 £15.73
Median hourly rate £24.71 £30.78 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.72% -14.50% +24.57%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.75 £62.48
90th Percentile £69.65 £74.10 £74.40
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 the UK excluding London

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

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Principle of Least Privilege
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Police
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Information Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Junior
1 2 (40.00%) Junior Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Junior Information Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Junior Information Security Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Junior Security Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) SailPoint Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) Information Security
1 3 (60.00%) RBAC
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Due Diligence
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) Information Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Records Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet