BitLocker Contract Job Trends

Microsoft BitLocker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring BitLocker skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 625 505 547
Rank change year-on-year -120 +42 +79
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 37 48 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.15% 0.100%
As % of the System Software category 0.71% 1.24% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 24
10th Percentile £275 £238 £144
25th Percentile £342 £250 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £383 £204
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +87.73% -45.67%
75th Percentile £604 £588 £496
90th Percentile £638 £594 £560
UK excluding London median daily rate £354 £300 £183
% change year-on-year +18.07% +64.38% -26.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 3
Median hourly rate - £13.77 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year - -42.14% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £13.77 -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,230 3,880 4,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.89% 11.96% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 2,511 3,339
10th Percentile £213 £221 £210
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £670 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £477
% change year-on-year - -0.42% +0.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 102 211
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.87 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £15.50
Median hourly rate £51.00 £29.25 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +74.36% +22.90% -54.67%
75th Percentile £73.38 £67.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.80 £91.23 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £57.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -11.69% +156.67% -17.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BitLocker relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

BitLocker job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BitLocker

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BitLocker over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BitLocker in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing BitLocker

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Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. 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
England -100 36 £413 -21.43% 3
UK excluding London -106 23 £354 +18.07% 1
North of England -65 16 £354 -4.27%
North West -44 14 £365 -21.51%
London -49 14 £525 - 2
Midlands -61 3 £500 +100.00%
Work from Home -56 2 £413 +50.00% 1
West Midlands -65 2 - -
South East -68 2 £413 -28.26% 1
Wales -16 1 £280 -6.67%
East Midlands -23 1 £500 +100.00%
Yorkshire -50 1 £245 -10.91%
North East - 1 £275 -
South West - 1 £210 -

BitLocker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (45.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (32.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.62%) Azure
1 8 (21.62%) IaaS
2 7 (18.92%) Entra ID
2 7 (18.92%) PaaS
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) AWS
5 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (40.54%) DHCP
2 14 (37.84%) DNS
3 13 (35.14%) VPN
4 12 (32.43%) Firewall
4 12 (32.43%) Skype
5 8 (21.62%) SMTP
5 8 (21.62%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (10.81%) LAN
6 4 (10.81%) VLAN
6 4 (10.81%) WAN
7 2 (5.41%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (8.11%) Big Data
3 3 (8.11%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) MSI
General
1 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.70%) Law
3 1 (2.70%) Legal
3 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 9 (24.32%) Desktop Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (10.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Architect
4 4 (10.81%) NetApp Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Architect
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.11%) Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) .NET
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) PKI
2 8 (21.62%) Clustering
3 4 (10.81%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (5.41%) BYOD
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (45.95%) Windows 10
3 13 (35.14%) Windows 7
4 9 (24.32%) Windows Server
5 7 (18.92%) Linux
6 6 (16.22%) Apple iOS
7 5 (13.51%) Mac OS
7 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (10.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (37.84%) ITSM
2 13 (35.14%) Disk Encryption
3 12 (32.43%) Service Management
4 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (18.92%) Application Packaging
6 6 (16.22%) Incident Management
7 5 (13.51%) User Experience
8 4 (10.81%) Migration
8 4 (10.81%) Mobile Device Management
9 3 (8.11%) AI
9 3 (8.11%) Change Management
9 3 (8.11%) DevOps
9 3 (8.11%) ITIL
9 3 (8.11%) Machine Learning
9 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.11%) Software Deployment
10 2 (5.41%) Creative Thinking
10 2 (5.41%) Strategic Thinking
10 2 (5.41%) Task Automation
10 2 (5.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 29 (78.38%) PowerShell
2 13 (35.14%) VBScript
3 11 (29.73%) VB
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (27.03%) DV Cleared
4 9 (24.32%) Degree
5 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (43.24%) Active Directory
2 9 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (21.62%) Hyper-V
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (21.62%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (18.92%) Docker
5 5 (13.51%) Firmware
6 4 (10.81%) Terminal Services
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) SCCM
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (21.62%) vCenter Server
2 8 (21.62%) vMotion
3 7 (18.92%) Ansible
3 7 (18.92%) Kubernetes
3 7 (18.92%) Puppet
4 3 (8.11%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (8.11%) Nagios
5 2 (5.41%) AirWatch
6 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (86.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (35.14%) ServiceNow
3 10 (27.03%) VMware
4 8 (21.62%) Citrix
5 7 (18.92%) HP
6 5 (13.51%) MobileIron
6 5 (13.51%) NetApp
7 4 (10.81%) Google
7 4 (10.81%) Symantec
8 3 (8.11%) Apple
9 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
9 2 (5.41%) Dell
9 2 (5.41%) McAfee
10 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.70%) Remedy
10 1 (2.70%) Zscaler