BitLocker Contracts

Microsoft BitLocker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for BitLocker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BitLocker over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 647 748
Rank change year-on-year +91 +101 -113
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 30 69 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 0.64% 0.85% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 55 75
10th Percentile £143 £157 £171
25th Percentile £144 £214 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £450 £250
Median % change year-on-year -61.11% +80.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £238 £530 £400
90th Percentile £386 £543 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £175 £325 £234
% change year-on-year -46.15% +39.04% +65.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £12.72
25th Percentile - - £12.96
Median hourly rate - - £14.75
75th Percentile - - £24.94
90th Percentile - - £30.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £13.93

All System Software Skills
UK

BitLocker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,701 8,086 12,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.33% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 5,794 8,756
10th Percentile £195 £205 £200
25th Percentile £325 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £488 £440
% change year-on-year -5.64% +10.80% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 301 340
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.07 £75.00 £58.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £38.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.45% +120.00% -0.99%

BitLocker
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BitLocker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BitLocker.

Daily rate trend for BitLocker in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BitLocker over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BitLocker in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BitLocker.

Hourly rate trend for BitLocker in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BitLocker within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +48 29 £175 -46.15% 1
Scotland +50 16 £144 -11.46%
England +69 14 £213 -52.78% 3
North of England +32 5 £200 -6.98%
Work from Home +98 4 £175 -61.11%
Midlands +25 4 £225 -10.00% 1
North West +17 4 £191 -11.05%
South East -1 4 £155 -65.56%
West Midlands +18 3 £225 -57.14% 1
London +95 1 £150 -72.09% 2
East Midlands +13 1 £350 +121.52%
North East - 1 £600 -

BitLocker
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 7 (23.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (3.33%) GCP
4 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (40.00%) VPN
2 10 (33.33%) DHCP
2 10 (33.33%) DNS
3 6 (20.00%) Firewall
3 6 (20.00%) SMTP
4 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Support Officer
2 7 (23.33%) IT Support
3 6 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Service Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) IT Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Support
5 3 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 1 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Clustering
1 6 (20.00%) PKI
2 4 (13.33%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.33%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (90.00%) Windows
2 13 (43.33%) Windows 10
3 9 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (16.67%) Android
5 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
6 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) High Availability
1 6 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
1 6 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (13.33%) ITSM
4 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.00%) ITIL
4 3 (10.00%) Migration
5 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.67%) Problem Management
5 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.67%) Security Patching
6 1 (3.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.33%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (3.33%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (3.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (3.33%) Service Management
6 1 (3.33%) Software Deployment
6 1 (3.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) VB
2 2 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 19 (63.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (20.00%) Terminal Services
2 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) SCCM
2 6 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (20.00%) vMotion
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) McAfee
2 8 (26.67%) VMware
3 7 (23.33%) Citrix
4 6 (20.00%) Infoblox
5 3 (10.00%) HP
6 2 (6.67%) Apple
6 2 (6.67%) Mitel
6 2 (6.67%) MobileIron
7 1 (3.33%) Cisco
7 1 (3.33%) Equitrac
7 1 (3.33%) ESET
7 1 (3.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Symantec