Kerberos Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kerberos
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kerberos skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 351 410
Rank change year-on-year +2 +59 +73
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 33 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.064% 0.071%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.56% 0.44% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 8
10th Percentile £380 £460 £468
25th Percentile £415 £594 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £675 £694
Median % change year-on-year -31.63% -2.70% +32.14%
75th Percentile £535 £688 £750
90th Percentile £675 £718 -
UK median daily rate £472 £628 £654
% change year-on-year -24.78% -4.02% +11.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £53.40 - -
25th Percentile £54.75 - -
Median hourly rate £59.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £62.75 - £55.70
90th Percentile £63.80 - £56.12
UK median hourly rate £59.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +46.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Kerberos falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,110 2,520 3,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.36% 14.61% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,377 2,181
10th Percentile £191 £200 £206
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £468
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.56% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £643 £653 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 148 268
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.59 £16.28
25th Percentile £18.32 £26.13 £24.46
Median hourly rate £41.72 £53.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% -6.52% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.82
90th Percentile £81.22 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -28.95% -14.04% +37.78%

Kerberos
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kerberos relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Kerberos job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kerberos
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kerberos.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kerberos

Kerberos
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kerberos in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kerberos in the UK excluding London

Kerberos
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kerberos.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kerberos

Kerberos
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 Kerberos within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
North of England -7 18 £453 -37.52% 3
North West - 10 £448 -
Yorkshire -15 8 £531 -26.76% 3
South East +12 5 £462 -31.63% 2
Scotland - 5 £675 -
South West +15 3 £425 -36.90% 2
East of England -10 1 £475 +26.67% 1
Midlands -15 1 - -
West Midlands -21 1 - -
Kerberos
UK

Kerberos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (30.30%) Apache
1 10 (30.30%) IIS
1 10 (30.30%) iPlanet
1 10 (30.30%) JBoss
1 10 (30.30%) WebSphere
1 10 (30.30%) WebSphere Application Server
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) OpenShift
3 5 (15.15%) Azure
4 4 (12.12%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.09%) Datadog
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.09%) SaaS
5 3 (9.09%) ShareGate
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.03%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Route 53
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) Network Security
1 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) DHCP
2 1 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) IPsec
2 1 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (3.03%) SSH
2 1 (3.03%) SSL
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Oracle Database
2 8 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.15%) NewSQL
3 5 (15.15%) OLTP
4 3 (9.09%) CockroachDB
4 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 3 (9.09%) HBase
4 3 (9.09%) Metadata
4 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.09%) Power BI
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Jenkins
2 11 (33.33%) Git
2 11 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 10 (30.30%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (30.30%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 3 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.09%) Gradle
4 3 (9.09%) JIRA
4 3 (9.09%) JUnit
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Senior
2 6 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Database Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Design Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Python Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (78.79%) OAuth
1 26 (78.79%) SAML
2 19 (57.58%) OpenID
3 18 (54.55%) LDAP
4 3 (9.09%) Kafka
4 3 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (9.09%) Spring
4 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
5 1 (3.03%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) Windows
3 10 (30.30%) Windows Server
4 8 (24.24%) Unix
5 1 (3.03%) AIX
5 1 (3.03%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) DevOps
1 15 (45.45%) Identity Access Management
2 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (21.21%) Decision-Making
4 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 6 (18.18%) Architecture Governance
4 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 6 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (18.18%) Secrets Management
5 5 (15.15%) Cryptography
5 5 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (15.15%) High Availability
5 5 (15.15%) Incident Response
5 5 (15.15%) Risk Management
5 5 (15.15%) Security Operations
5 5 (15.15%) Task Automation
5 5 (15.15%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
5 5 (15.15%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Groovy
2 9 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 7 (21.21%) Python
4 5 (15.15%) ANSI SQL
4 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 3 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.12%) CISM
2 4 (12.12%) CISSP
2 4 (12.12%) TOGAF Certification
3 3 (9.09%) OCP
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) PhD
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (12.12%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) NIST
4 1 (3.03%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (27.27%) Docker
3 8 (24.24%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) CA Single Sign-On
1 10 (30.30%) CA Wily
1 10 (30.30%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (27.27%) Progress Chef
3 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
3 8 (24.24%) Tivoli
4 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (9.09%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) Terraform
5 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.03%) Ansible
5 1 (3.03%) Nagios
5 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) AppDynamics
2 10 (30.30%) Broadcom
2 10 (30.30%) IBM
2 10 (30.30%) Oracle
2 10 (30.30%) Splunk
3 3 (9.09%) CyberArk
4 2 (6.06%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (3.03%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) SaltStack