BitLocker Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft BitLocker
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring BitLocker skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 167 205
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 +53
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 8 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 1.69% 1.33% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile - £155 -
25th Percentile £563 - £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £160 £190
Median % change year-on-year +259.38% -15.57% -57.89%
75th Percentile £591 £359 £281
90th Percentile £600 £488 £349
England median daily rate £550 £473 £345
% change year-on-year +16.40% +36.96% -1.43%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 473 676 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.58% 14.71% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 449 547
10th Percentile £190 £232 £181
25th Percentile £263 £363 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £672 £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 32 61
10th Percentile £37.47 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £26.25 £24.34
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.81 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year +45.14% +2.29% +43.07%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.30 - £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.50 £24.50 £47.86
% change year-on-year +40.82% -48.81% +117.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing BitLocker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BitLocker.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BitLocker

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BitLocker.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing BitLocker

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BitLocker within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Hampshire +16 8 £575 +4.55%
BitLocker
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
1 8 (100.00%) IaaS
1 8 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 8 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
1 8 (100.00%) SMTP
1 8 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (100.00%) Big Data
1 8 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
1 8 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 8 (100.00%) Software Deployment
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
1 8 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 8 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Nagios
1 8 (100.00%) Puppet
1 8 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 8 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) Google
1 8 (100.00%) HP
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Symantec
1 8 (100.00%) VMware