BitLocker Contracts

Microsoft BitLocker
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 570 649
Rank change year-on-year +97 +79 +108
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 46 30 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.069% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.26% 0.64% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 49
10th Percentile £204 £140 £158
25th Percentile £250 £144 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £170 £450
Median % change year-on-year +223.53% -62.22% +80.00%
75th Percentile £588 £238 £530
90th Percentile £598 £409 £541
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £175 £248
% change year-on-year +221.43% -29.44% +15.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £13.77 £23.80 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.14% - -
75th Percentile £17.16 - -
90th Percentile £18.13 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.16 - -

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 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

BitLocker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BitLocker in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BitLocker over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BitLocker in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BitLocker.

Hourly rate trend for BitLocker in the UK

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Top 12 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +88 39 £550 +144.44% 10
UK excluding London +58 31 £563 +221.43% 9
London +42 10 £525 +250.00% 3
Midlands +30 10 £250 +11.11% 2
South East +48 9 £575 +270.97% 4
North of England +34 9 £465 -2.11% 1
North West +18 9 £465 +41.44% 1
West Midlands +19 6 £110 -50.92% 2
Work from Home +51 5 £550 +214.29% 3
East Midlands +13 4 £250 -28.57%
Scotland -5 2 - -
South West - 1 - -

BitLocker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (41.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.70%) Skype for Business
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (21.74%) Azure
3 9 (19.57%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) GCP
3 9 (19.57%) IaaS
3 9 (19.57%) OpenShift
3 9 (19.57%) PaaS
4 8 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.70%) Google Workspace
6 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (60.87%) VPN
2 17 (36.96%) DNS
3 15 (32.61%) DHCP
4 10 (21.74%) Firewall
4 10 (21.74%) SMTP
5 5 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (8.70%) LAN
6 4 (8.70%) Skype
6 4 (8.70%) VLAN
6 4 (8.70%) WAN
7 1 (2.17%) HTTP
7 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (19.57%) Big Data
1 9 (19.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) MSI
General
1 17 (36.96%) Public Sector
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Publishing
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Support Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) 3rd Line Support
3 9 (19.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Desktop Support
6 5 (10.87%) Desktop Support Technician
6 5 (10.87%) Desktop Technician
6 5 (10.87%) Support Technician
7 4 (8.70%) Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Desktop Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) IT Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Windows Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) IT Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) Wintel Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) PKI
2 10 (21.74%) Clustering
3 9 (19.57%) Data Centre
4 6 (13.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (13.04%) NHS
5 4 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (8.70%) Smartphone
6 2 (4.35%) Blackberry
6 2 (4.35%) CMDB
6 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (73.91%) Windows
2 17 (36.96%) Windows 10
2 17 (36.96%) Windows Server
3 10 (21.74%) Linux
4 9 (19.57%) Android
5 5 (10.87%) Apple iOS
5 5 (10.87%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (8.70%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (19.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 9 (19.57%) DevOps
2 9 (19.57%) Machine Learning
2 9 (19.57%) Software Deployment
3 7 (15.22%) Customer Service
3 7 (15.22%) Incident Management
4 6 (13.04%) Agile
4 6 (13.04%) Disk Encryption
4 6 (13.04%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 6 (13.04%) Privileged Access Management
5 5 (10.87%) Computer Science
5 5 (10.87%) ITSM
5 5 (10.87%) Migration
5 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.87%) Service Management
6 4 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (8.70%) Operations Management
6 4 (8.70%) RBAC
6 4 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.22%) VBScript
3 6 (13.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (58.70%) Degree
2 25 (54.35%) Security Cleared
3 14 (30.43%) SC Cleared
4 9 (19.57%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.35%) MCP
6 2 (4.35%) MCSA
6 2 (4.35%) MCSE
7 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) NCSC
1 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 35 (76.09%) Active Directory
2 14 (30.43%) Microsoft App-V
2 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (21.74%) Hyper-V
3 10 (21.74%) Terminal Services
3 10 (21.74%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (19.57%) Docker
5 4 (8.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.17%) XenApp
6 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (50.00%) SCCM
2 11 (23.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (21.74%) vCenter Server
3 10 (21.74%) vMotion
4 9 (19.57%) Ansible
4 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
4 9 (19.57%) Nagios
4 9 (19.57%) Puppet
5 4 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.17%) SCOrch
7 1 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 38 (82.61%) Microsoft
2 23 (50.00%) Citrix
3 15 (32.61%) VMware
4 13 (28.26%) Google
5 11 (23.91%) ServiceNow
5 11 (23.91%) Symantec
6 9 (19.57%) HP
7 7 (15.22%) Nexthink
8 6 (13.04%) Cisco
9 5 (10.87%) Apple
10 4 (8.70%) CheckPoint
10 4 (8.70%) CyberArk
10 4 (8.70%) Zscaler
11 2 (4.35%) Equitrac
11 2 (4.35%) McAfee
12 1 (2.17%) Mitel
12 1 (2.17%) Progress
12 1 (2.17%) Remedy