Principle of Least Privilege Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Principle of Least Privilege
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 155 92 -
Rank change year-on-year -63 - -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.070% 0.15% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £467 - -
25th Percentile £483 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% - -
75th Percentile £558 £438 -
90th Percentile £576 - -
England median daily rate £575 £563 £700
% change year-on-year +2.22% -19.64% +53.01%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,406 1,193 1,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.33% 89.63% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 799 1,106
10th Percentile £304 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £664 £689 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 54 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.11
25th Percentile £16.10 £14.70 £14.03
Median hourly rate £23.00 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.86% -19.42% +26.98%
75th Percentile £29.38 £24.21 £40.38
90th Percentile £59.50 £34.63 £58.75
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 West Midlands

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

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Principle of Least Privilege
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire -17 1 £575 +35.29%
Birmingham - 1 £463 -
Principle of Least Privilege
England

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Police
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IAM Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Identity
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Records Management
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet