Disk Encryption Contracts

Disk Encryption
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Disk Encryption skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Disk Encryption 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 509 573 713
Rank change year-on-year +64 +140 +123
Contract jobs citing Disk Encryption 11 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.021% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.024% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile - £528 £237
25th Percentile £450 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £575 £250
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +130.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £484 £613 £463
90th Percentile £581 - £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £575 £250
% change year-on-year -19.13% +130.00% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Disk Encryption falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Disk Encryption
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Disk Encryption in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Disk Encryption in the UK

Disk Encryption
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Disk Encryption over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Disk Encryption in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Disk Encryption in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Disk Encryption within the UK 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
England +66 11 £458 - 3
London - 6 £450 - 2
UK excluding London +59 5 £465 -19.13% 2
North of England - 5 £465 -
North West - 5 £465 -

Disk Encryption
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 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (36.36%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DHCP
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) LAN
1 4 (36.36%) Skype
1 4 (36.36%) VLAN
1 4 (36.36%) VPN
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
1 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Migration Specialist
1 4 (36.36%) Windows Specialist
2 3 (27.27%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Field Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Windows 10
3 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) ITSM
2 4 (36.36%) Service Management
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Application Packaging
4 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 1 (9.09%) Capacity Management
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (9.09%) Key Management
4 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
4 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Security Management
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
4 1 (9.09%) Security Patching
4 1 (9.09%) Server Building
4 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 5 (45.45%) VBScript
3 4 (36.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) BitLocker
2 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (9.09%) XenApp
4 1 (9.09%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) SCCM
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) VMware