Principle of Least Privilege Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Principle of Least Privilege
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 - 470
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 3 0 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% - 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% - 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile - - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £450
75th Percentile £550 - £461
90th Percentile £580 - £537
UK median daily rate £613 £700 £448
% change year-on-year -12.50% +56.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Principle of Least Privilege
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Principle of Least Privilege as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Principle of Least Privilege trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Principle of Least Privilege
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Principle of Least Privilege.

Principle of Least Privilege daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) BYOD
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Control
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Management
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (66.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft