Principle of Least Privilege Jobs

Principle of Least Privilege
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Principle of Least Privilege skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Principle of Least Privilege over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 694 871 977
Rank change year-on-year +177 +106 +244
Permanent jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 5 7 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.007% 0.001%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.008% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £45,850 £59,000 -
25th Percentile £46,000 £62,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile £64,375 - -
90th Percentile £73,750 £66,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £65,000 -
% change year-on-year -27.69% - -

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,927 84,686 99,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.31% 85.94% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 26,704 59,831 58,285
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,182
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Principle of Least Privilege in the UK

Principle of Least Privilege
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Principle of Least Privilege in the UK

Principle of Least Privilege
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +186 5 £47,500 -26.92% 5
Work from Home +165 3 £80,000 +23.08% 2
London +108 3 £80,000 +31.15% 5
UK excluding London +202 2 £47,000 -27.69%
South West - 2 £47,000 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Drupal
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) SSH
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Laravel
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Debian
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Information Security
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (60.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
4 2 (40.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 2 (40.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (40.00%) Runbook
4 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) SIEM
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCIE
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIE
1 2 (40.00%) JNCIP
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat