Microsoft BitLocker
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BitLocker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BitLocker over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 697 1016 1002
Rank change year-on-year +319 -14 -292
Permanent jobs citing BitLocker 36 74 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.059% 0.075%
As % of the System Software category 0.40% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 31 45 75
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £25,600
25th Percentile £40,625 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,557 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £59,625 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £30,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year +38.21% -18.00% -28.57%

All System Software Skills
UK

BitLocker is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9,044 19,198 22,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.72% 15.26% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 7,183 12,804 15,878
10th Percentile £28,850 £29,059 £28,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,094 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,557 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.89% +5.26% +5.56%

BitLocker
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in the UK

BitLocker
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BitLocker.

Salary trend for BitLocker in the UK

BitLocker
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BitLocker over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for BitLocker in the UK

BitLocker
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BitLocker within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +278 30 £46,250 +15.63% 6
UK excluding London +228 24 £42,500 +38.21% 5
Work from Home +242 16 £47,557 -13.53% 1
Midlands +135 12 £42,500 +3.91%
London +241 11 £62,500 +55.28% 3
West Midlands +120 10 £42,500 +3.91%
Scotland - 6 £47,557 -
East of England +120 4 £32,250 -
East Midlands - 2 - -
South East +147 1 £50,000 +104.08% 3
North of England +128 1 £28,500 -1.72% 1
North West +111 1 £28,500 -21.92% 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 6 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.11%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) PlanetPress Connect
Cloud Services
1 26 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (63.89%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) Entra ID
4 5 (13.89%) PaaS
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) AWS
5 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) OneDrive
6 3 (8.33%) WhatsApp
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (33.33%) DNS
1 12 (33.33%) Firewall
2 11 (30.56%) DHCP
3 7 (19.44%) TCP/IP
4 6 (16.67%) Internet
4 6 (16.67%) LAN
5 4 (11.11%) VPN
5 4 (11.11%) WAAS
6 3 (8.33%) WAN
6 3 (8.33%) WLAN
7 2 (5.56%) DMARC
7 2 (5.56%) Wireless
8 1 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.78%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (2.78%) SMTP
8 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (27.78%) Retail
4 7 (19.44%) Banking
5 3 (8.33%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Law
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
6 2 (5.56%) Police
6 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Local Government
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Support Technician
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
3 4 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) IT Support
3 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (8.33%) 1st Line Support Technician
4 3 (8.33%) Citrix Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Platform Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) Technology Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (13.89%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.56%) CMDB
4 2 (5.56%) IoT
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (75.00%) Windows
2 13 (36.11%) Windows 10
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) Android
4 3 (8.33%) Mac OS X
4 3 (8.33%) VMS
4 3 (8.33%) Windows 7
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.78%) Unix
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (30.56%) ITIL
3 8 (22.22%) Agile
4 7 (19.44%) Application Packaging
5 6 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (16.67%) Migration
5 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 5 (13.89%) Business Continuity
6 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (13.89%) Load Balancing
6 5 (13.89%) Project Management
6 5 (13.89%) Time Management
7 4 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.11%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 4 (11.11%) Patch Management
7 4 (11.11%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (11.11%) User Experience
8 3 (8.33%) Business Enablement
8 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.56%) CEH
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) CRISC
4 1 (2.78%) CCNA
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) MCP
4 1 (2.78%) MCSA
4 1 (2.78%) MCSE
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (13.89%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 3 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (2.78%) Firmware
5 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (33.33%) SCCM
3 5 (13.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (5.56%) SysTrack
6 1 (2.78%) Avamar
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.78%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (36.11%) VMware
3 8 (22.22%) Citrix
4 4 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 4 (11.11%) Google
5 3 (8.33%) Juniper
5 3 (8.33%) WatchGuard
6 2 (5.56%) Apple
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco
6 2 (5.56%) Samsung
7 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.78%) EMC
7 1 (2.78%) F5
7 1 (2.78%) HP
7 1 (2.78%) McAfee
7 1 (2.78%) MobileIron
7 1 (2.78%) NetApp
7 1 (2.78%) Netskope
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.78%) Snow