BitLocker Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft BitLocker
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 157 182 210
Rank change year-on-year +25 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 9 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.063% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 1.78% 0.54% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £236 £188
25th Percentile £458 £321 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £215
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +120.93% +7.50%
75th Percentile £473 £569 £219
90th Percentile - £618 £238
England median daily rate £550 £225 £450
% change year-on-year +144.44% -50.00% +63.64%

All System Software Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

BitLocker
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in the North of England

BitLocker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for BitLocker in the North of England

BitLocker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for BitLocker in the North of England

BitLocker
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +24 9 £465 +41.44% 1
BitLocker
England

BitLocker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (44.44%) Skype for Business
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Entra ID
2 4 (44.44%) Google Workspace
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) VPN
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
3 4 (44.44%) DHCP
3 4 (44.44%) LAN
3 4 (44.44%) Skype
3 4 (44.44%) VLAN
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Privileged Access Management
2 4 (44.44%) Disk Encryption
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) ITSM
2 4 (44.44%) RBAC
2 4 (44.44%) Service Management
2 4 (44.44%) User Experience
2 4 (44.44%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
1 5 (55.56%) VB
1 5 (55.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) MCP
3 1 (11.11%) MCSA
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (55.56%) SCCM
2 4 (44.44%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
2 4 (44.44%) CyberArk
2 4 (44.44%) Google
2 4 (44.44%) ServiceNow
2 4 (44.44%) Zscaler
3 1 (11.11%) McAfee
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) VMware