BitLocker Contracts in England

Microsoft BitLocker
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring BitLocker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BitLocker 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 446 528 598
Rank change year-on-year +82 +70 +107
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 39 14 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.038% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.26% 0.35% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 41
10th Percentile £204 £148 £206
25th Percentile £250 £176 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £225 £450
Median % change year-on-year +144.44% -50.00% +63.64%
75th Percentile £588 £341 £538
90th Percentile £598 £504 £540
UK median daily rate £550 £170 £450
% change year-on-year +223.53% -62.22% +80.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.22 - -
Median hourly rate £17.16 £23.80 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.90% - -
75th Percentile £18.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.77 £23.80 -
% change year-on-year -42.14% - -

All System Software Skills
England

BitLocker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for BitLocker in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BitLocker in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BitLocker in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for BitLocker in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BitLocker within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +45 10 £525 +250.00% 3
Midlands +28 10 £250 +11.11% 2
South East +51 9 £575 +270.97% 3
North of England +25 9 £465 -2.11% 1
North West +24 9 £465 +41.44% 1
West Midlands +17 6 £110 -50.92% 2
East Midlands +13 4 £250 -28.57%
South West - 1 - -
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (43.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.26%) SharePoint
2 4 (10.26%) Skype for Business
3 2 (5.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 9 (23.08%) AWS
3 9 (23.08%) GCP
3 9 (23.08%) IaaS
3 9 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 9 (23.08%) PaaS
4 8 (20.51%) Entra ID
5 4 (10.26%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (71.79%) VPN
2 17 (43.59%) DNS
3 15 (38.46%) DHCP
4 10 (25.64%) Firewall
4 10 (25.64%) SMTP
5 5 (12.82%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (10.26%) LAN
6 4 (10.26%) Skype
6 4 (10.26%) VLAN
6 4 (10.26%) WAN
7 1 (2.56%) HTTP
7 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (23.08%) Big Data
1 9 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) MSI
General
1 15 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Publishing
5 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Support Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
3 9 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Wintel Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) PKI
2 10 (25.64%) Clustering
3 9 (23.08%) Data Centre
4 6 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (15.38%) NHS
5 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
5 4 (10.26%) Smartphone
6 2 (5.13%) CMDB
6 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (87.18%) Windows
2 17 (43.59%) Windows 10
2 17 (43.59%) Windows Server
3 10 (25.64%) Linux
4 7 (17.95%) Android
5 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (10.26%) Windows 7
7 3 (7.69%) Apple iOS
8 2 (5.13%) Mac OS
8 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (23.08%) DevOps
2 9 (23.08%) Machine Learning
2 9 (23.08%) Software Deployment
3 7 (17.95%) Customer Service
4 6 (15.38%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) Disk Encryption
4 6 (15.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 6 (15.38%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
5 5 (12.82%) Migration
5 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) Service Management
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.26%) Operations Management
6 4 (10.26%) Process Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) RBAC
6 4 (10.26%) User Experience
6 4 (10.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) PowerShell
2 7 (17.95%) VBScript
3 6 (15.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (66.67%) Degree
2 25 (64.10%) Security Cleared
3 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
4 9 (23.08%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.13%) MCP
6 2 (5.13%) MCSA
6 2 (5.13%) MCSE
7 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) NCSC
1 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 28 (71.79%) Active Directory
2 14 (35.90%) Microsoft App-V
2 14 (35.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (25.64%) Hyper-V
3 10 (25.64%) Terminal Services
3 10 (25.64%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (23.08%) Docker
5 4 (10.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.56%) XenApp
6 1 (2.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (46.15%) SCCM
2 11 (28.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (25.64%) vCenter Server
3 10 (25.64%) vMotion
4 9 (23.08%) Ansible
4 9 (23.08%) Kubernetes
4 9 (23.08%) Nagios
4 9 (23.08%) Puppet
5 4 (10.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (5.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.56%) SCOrch
7 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (82.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (58.97%) Citrix
3 15 (38.46%) VMware
4 13 (33.33%) Google
5 11 (28.21%) Symantec
6 9 (23.08%) HP
7 7 (17.95%) Nexthink
8 6 (15.38%) Cisco
8 6 (15.38%) ServiceNow
9 5 (12.82%) Apple
10 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
10 4 (10.26%) CyberArk
10 4 (10.26%) Zscaler
11 2 (5.13%) McAfee
12 1 (2.56%) Remedy