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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 537 622
Rank change year-on-year +27 +85 +152
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 49 35 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.087% 0.10%
As % of the System Software category 1.27% 0.77% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 48
10th Percentile £240 £144 £203
25th Percentile £250 £160 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £183 £406
Median % change year-on-year +64.38% -55.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £588 £527 £532
90th Percentile - £568 £554
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £179 £325
% change year-on-year +67.83% -45.00% +75.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.75 - -
Median hourly rate £13.77 £23.80 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.14% - -
75th Percentile £13.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 3,871 4,545 7,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.73% 11.32% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,488 3,157 4,879
10th Percentile £225 £213 £200
25th Percentile £384 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 167 255
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £14.48 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -56.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £75.60 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £20.29 £27.25
% change year-on-year +183.46% -25.56% +36.25%

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 27 July 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 14 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 27 July 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 +29 31 £495 +27.74% 13
UK excluding London +36 30 £300 +67.83% 11
London +14 9 £388 +34.78% 3
South East +24 8 £575 +259.38% 1
North of England -3 8 £370 -29.72% 4
North West -10 7 £465 -11.68% 1
Work from Home +23 6 £275 -48.41% 5
Midlands 0 6 £250 -28.57% 5
Wales - 5 £300 - 1
East Midlands 0 4 £250 -28.57% 4
Scotland -12 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £275 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £275 - 3
Northern Ireland - 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 (38.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.16%) Skype for Business
3 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
3 9 (18.37%) AWS
3 9 (18.37%) GCP
3 9 (18.37%) IaaS
3 9 (18.37%) OpenShift
3 9 (18.37%) PaaS
4 8 (16.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (8.16%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.12%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.86%) VPN
2 14 (28.57%) DHCP
2 14 (28.57%) DNS
3 10 (20.41%) Firewall
3 10 (20.41%) SMTP
3 10 (20.41%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (8.16%) LAN
4 4 (8.16%) Skype
4 4 (8.16%) VLAN
4 4 (8.16%) WAN
5 1 (2.04%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.37%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (18.37%) Big Data
1 9 (18.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (2.04%) MSI
General
1 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Desktop Support
2 11 (22.45%) Desktop Support Technician
2 11 (22.45%) Desktop Technician
2 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) Support Technician
3 10 (20.41%) Analyst
4 9 (18.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) 3rd Line Support
4 9 (18.37%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Support Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Support Analyst
6 7 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (14.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
6 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Deployment Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) IT Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Service Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Clustering
1 10 (20.41%) PKI
2 9 (18.37%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.16%) Smartphone
4 3 (6.12%) CMDB
4 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.08%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 31 (63.27%) Windows
2 13 (26.53%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.41%) Windows 10
4 9 (18.37%) Linux
5 7 (14.29%) Android
6 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (8.16%) Windows 7
8 3 (6.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.49%) Incident Management
2 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (18.37%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (18.37%) DevOps
3 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
3 9 (18.37%) Software Deployment
4 6 (12.24%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
5 5 (10.20%) Customer Service
5 5 (10.20%) Disk Encryption
5 5 (10.20%) ITSM
6 4 (8.16%) Agile
6 4 (8.16%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (8.16%) Migration
6 4 (8.16%) Operations Management
6 4 (8.16%) Process Improvement
6 4 (8.16%) Service Management
7 3 (6.12%) ITIL
7 3 (6.12%) User Experience
7 3 (6.12%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.16%) VB
2 4 (8.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.73%) Degree
3 10 (20.41%) SC Cleared
4 9 (18.37%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 33 (67.35%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.45%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (20.41%) Hyper-V
3 10 (20.41%) Terminal Services
3 10 (20.41%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (18.37%) Docker
5 6 (12.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) SCCM
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (20.41%) vCenter Server
2 10 (20.41%) vMotion
3 9 (18.37%) Ansible
3 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.37%) Nagios
3 9 (18.37%) Puppet
4 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (93.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (32.65%) ServiceNow
3 15 (30.61%) HP
4 14 (28.57%) Citrix
5 12 (24.49%) Google
6 11 (22.45%) VMware
7 10 (20.41%) Apple
8 9 (18.37%) Symantec
9 6 (12.24%) McAfee
9 6 (12.24%) MobileIron
10 3 (6.12%) CheckPoint
10 3 (6.12%) CyberArk
10 3 (6.12%) Zscaler
11 2 (4.08%) Equitrac
12 1 (2.04%) BMC
12 1 (2.04%) Mitel
12 1 (2.04%) Progress
12 1 (2.04%) Toshiba