Hybrid/Remote Principle of Least Privilege Job Trends

Principle of Least Privilege
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Principle of Least Privilege skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 442 471
Rank change year-on-year +73 +29 -
Permanent jobs citing Principle of Least Privilege 3 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.017% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.019% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - £62,750 -
25th Percentile £117,500 £63,125 £102,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £65,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -38.10% -
75th Percentile £132,500 £66,875 £107,500
90th Percentile - £67,250 -
UK median annual salary £102,500 £65,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year +57.69% -38.10% -

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,578 16,190 18,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.06% 92.72% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,689 9,805 15,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

Principle of Least Privilege
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Principle of Least Privilege and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Principle of Least Privilege job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Principle of Least Privilege
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Principle of Least Privilege.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Principle of Least Privilege

Principle of Least Privilege
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JWT
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth
1 3 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) B2C
1 3 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 3 (100.00%) Data Security
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Monetization
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) RBAC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus