BitLocker Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft BitLocker
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BitLocker skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BitLocker over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 409 458
Rank change year-on-year +43 +49 -43
Contract jobs citing BitLocker 28 40 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 1.17% 1.15% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 35
10th Percentile £140 £156 £139
25th Percentile £144 £210 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 £246 £190
Median % change year-on-year -28.86% +29.47% +7.04%
75th Percentile £238 £475 £301
90th Percentile £506 £538 £383
UK median daily rate £175 £450 £238
% change year-on-year -61.11% +89.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £12.63
25th Percentile - - £12.76
Median hourly rate - - £13.93
75th Percentile - - £15.51
90th Percentile - - £15.88
UK median hourly rate £23.80 - £14.75

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,394 3,486 4,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.80% 15.15% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 2,497 3,265
10th Percentile £179 £181 £158
25th Percentile £299 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.16%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 176 233
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.53 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £44.93 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.33% +154.69% -3.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £74.38 £49.35
UK median hourly rate £22.30 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.70% +170.00% -9.09%

BitLocker
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BitLocker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BitLocker in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BitLocker in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BitLocker in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BitLocker in the UK excluding London

BitLocker
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Scotland +43 14 £144 -11.46%
South East +8 7 £175 -61.11% 4
Midlands +19 4 £225 -41.94%
North of England +20 3 £475 +120.93%
West Midlands +18 3 £225 -57.14%
North West +13 2 £329 +52.91%
East Midlands +13 1 £350 +121.52%
North East - 1 £600 -
BitLocker
UK

BitLocker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (17.86%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) DHCP
1 8 (28.57%) DNS
1 8 (28.57%) VPN
2 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 5 (17.86%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) French Language
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Support Officer
2 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Service Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support
4 3 (10.71%) IT Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Support
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.57%) Junior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Clustering
1 5 (17.86%) PKI
2 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 2 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (3.57%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (89.29%) Windows
2 13 (46.43%) Windows 10
3 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.71%) Android
4 3 (10.71%) Apple iOS
4 3 (10.71%) Windows 7
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) High Availability
1 5 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (17.86%) Project Delivery
2 4 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
3 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
3 3 (10.71%) ITIL
3 3 (10.71%) ITSM
3 3 (10.71%) Migration
3 3 (10.71%) Project Planning
4 2 (7.14%) Problem Management
4 2 (7.14%) Security Patching
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.57%) Mobile Device Management
5 1 (3.57%) Software Deployment
5 1 (3.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.14%) VB
2 2 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.86%) Hyper-V
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft App-V
2 5 (17.86%) Terminal Services
2 5 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) SCCM
2 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
2 5 (17.86%) vMotion
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) McAfee
2 8 (28.57%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Citrix
3 5 (17.86%) Infoblox
4 3 (10.71%) HP
5 2 (7.14%) Mitel
5 2 (7.14%) MobileIron
6 1 (3.57%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) Equitrac
6 1 (3.57%) ESET
6 1 (3.57%) Google
6 1 (3.57%) Symantec