BitLocker Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft BitLocker
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 305 372 415
Rank change year-on-year +67 +43 +38
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 31 27 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 1.71% 1.10% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 36
10th Percentile £180 £139 £157
25th Percentile £250 £144 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £175 £248
Median % change year-on-year +221.43% -29.44% +15.35%
75th Percentile £588 £238 £475
90th Percentile £594 £420 £538
UK median daily rate £550 £170 £450
% change year-on-year +223.53% -62.22% +80.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.22 - -
Median hourly rate £17.16 - -
75th Percentile £18.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £13.77 £23.80 -
% change year-on-year -42.14% - -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,814 2,460 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.21% 11.84% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,649 2,640
10th Percentile £190 £175 £181
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £460 £483
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -4.69% +7.26%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £662 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 191 192
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £41.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -47.46% +131.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

BitLocker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BitLocker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BitLocker in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BitLocker in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
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%
Scotland -1 2 - -
South West - 1 - -
BitLocker
UK

BitLocker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (51.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.90%) Skype for Business
3 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.45%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (48.39%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (25.81%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) GCP
2 8 (25.81%) IaaS
2 8 (25.81%) OpenShift
2 8 (25.81%) PaaS
3 6 (19.35%) Azure
4 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.90%) Google Workspace
5 2 (6.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (70.97%) VPN
2 14 (45.16%) DNS
3 12 (38.71%) DHCP
4 8 (25.81%) Firewall
4 8 (25.81%) SMTP
5 4 (12.90%) LAN
5 4 (12.90%) Skype
5 4 (12.90%) VLAN
5 4 (12.90%) WAN
5 4 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (25.81%) Big Data
1 8 (25.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 15 (48.39%) Public Sector
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Publishing
4 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Support Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (25.81%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (25.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (22.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) IT Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365 Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Wintel Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Clustering
1 8 (25.81%) Data Centre
1 8 (25.81%) PKI
2 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (19.35%) NHS
3 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 4 (12.90%) Smartphone
4 2 (6.45%) Blackberry
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (80.65%) Windows
2 14 (45.16%) Windows Server
3 13 (41.94%) Windows 10
4 8 (25.81%) Android
4 8 (25.81%) Linux
5 4 (12.90%) Apple iOS
5 4 (12.90%) Windows 7
6 3 (9.68%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (25.81%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (25.81%) DevOps
2 8 (25.81%) Machine Learning
2 8 (25.81%) Software Deployment
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
3 6 (19.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 6 (19.35%) Privileged Access Management
4 5 (16.13%) ITSM
5 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (12.90%) Disk Encryption
5 4 (12.90%) Operations Management
5 4 (12.90%) Process Improvement
5 4 (12.90%) RBAC
5 4 (12.90%) Service Management
5 4 (12.90%) User Experience
5 4 (12.90%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (6.45%) Data Loss Prevention
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) PowerShell
2 6 (19.35%) VB
2 6 (19.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (70.97%) Degree
2 20 (64.52%) Security Cleared
3 11 (35.48%) SC Cleared
4 8 (25.81%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.45%) MCP
5 2 (6.45%) MCSA
5 2 (6.45%) MCSE
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) NCSC
1 2 (6.45%) QA
System Software
1 23 (74.19%) Active Directory
2 11 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (32.26%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (25.81%) Docker
4 8 (25.81%) Hyper-V
4 8 (25.81%) Terminal Services
4 8 (25.81%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) SCCM
2 8 (25.81%) Ansible
2 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
2 8 (25.81%) Nagios
2 8 (25.81%) Puppet
2 8 (25.81%) vCenter Server
2 8 (25.81%) vMotion
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (12.90%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 24 (77.42%) Microsoft
2 18 (58.06%) Citrix
3 12 (38.71%) Google
4 11 (35.48%) VMware
5 10 (32.26%) Symantec
6 8 (25.81%) HP
7 6 (19.35%) Cisco
7 6 (19.35%) Nexthink
7 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
8 4 (12.90%) Apple
8 4 (12.90%) CheckPoint
8 4 (12.90%) CyberArk
8 4 (12.90%) Zscaler
9 2 (6.45%) Equitrac
9 2 (6.45%) McAfee
10 1 (3.23%) Mitel
10 1 (3.23%) Progress