Principle of Least Privilege Contracts

Principle of Least Privilege
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 511 580 709
Rank change year-on-year +69 +129 -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 9 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.005% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.005% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £474 - £412
25th Percentile £500 £675 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £700 £448
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +56.42% -
75th Percentile £786 £725 £461
90th Percentile £1,100 - £518
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £443

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Principle of Least Privilege in the UK

Principle of Least Privilege
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Principle of Least Privilege in the UK

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Principle of Least Privilege in the UK

Principle of Least Privilege
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 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
England +63 8 £625 -10.71% 10
London +42 6 £625 -10.71% 10
Work from Home - 3 £500 - 4
Midlands - 1 £425 -
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
UK excluding London - 1 £425 -

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Engagement Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) SailPoint
2 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (22.22%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) OAuth
2 2 (22.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (33.33%) BYOD
2 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) RBAC
2 5 (55.56%) Cloud Security
2 5 (55.56%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Cost Control
4 3 (33.33%) Cost Management
4 3 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 3 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 3 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 2 (22.22%) Perl
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CISSP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
1 3 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 3 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Okta
3 2 (22.22%) CyberArk