BitLocker Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft BitLocker
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 161 165
Rank change year-on-year +51 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 16 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 5.18% 1.41% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £137 £131 £112
25th Percentile - £131 £125
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £144 £163 £145
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +12.07% +24.73%
75th Percentile £151 £530 £155
90th Percentile £173 £539 £170
UK median daily rate £170 £450 £250
% change year-on-year -62.22% +80.00% +14.94%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 309 427 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.23% 15.20% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 312 281
10th Percentile £192 £188 £158
25th Percentile £313 £374 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £626 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 16
10th Percentile - £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -31.01%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £49.26
90th Percentile - £55.57 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

BitLocker
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in Scotland

BitLocker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for BitLocker in Scotland

BitLocker
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BitLocker within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
South Ayrshire - 8 £144 -
Renfrewshire +1 5 - -
Edinburgh +38 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £175 -
BitLocker
UK

BitLocker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DHCP
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) SMTP
1 5 (31.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Support Officer
2 5 (31.25%) IT Support
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Service Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Clustering
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) Blackberry
2 1 (6.25%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Android
3 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (31.25%) High Availability
1 5 (31.25%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
2 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) ITSM
3 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) DV Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft App-V
2 5 (31.25%) Terminal Services
2 5 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) vCenter Server
1 5 (31.25%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) McAfee
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
3 5 (31.25%) Infoblox
3 5 (31.25%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Mitel
5 1 (6.25%) Equitrac