Kerberos Contract Job Trends

Kerberos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kerberos skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 516 503
Rank change year-on-year -104 -13 +89
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 77 45 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 1.20% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 35 36
10th Percentile £411 £404 £424
25th Percentile £450 £426 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £628
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -24.62% -2.71%
75th Percentile £613 £569 £766
90th Percentile £725 £675 £931
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £462 £675
% change year-on-year +5.63% -31.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £74.75 £53.40 -
25th Percentile £78.13 £54.75 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £59.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.07% - -
75th Percentile £90.63 £62.75 -
90th Percentile £93.25 £63.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £59.00 -
% change year-on-year +61.02% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,099 3,763 4,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.22% 11.33% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,944 2,404 2,616
10th Percentile £235 £213 £225
25th Percentile £390 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £679 £677 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 186 180
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £15.15
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.00 £24.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £48.56
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -29.98% -14.04%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.42 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.00 £41.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -37.35% -22.79% -6.38%

Kerberos
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Kerberos job vacancy trend in the UK

Kerberos
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Kerberos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kerberos over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Kerberos
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kerberos over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 October 2026. 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 -103 62 £506 +9.70% 16
London -50 40 £520 -1.89% 9
UK excluding London -104 27 £488 +5.63% 8
Work from Home -65 21 £493 -7.08% 4
North of England -79 11 £515 +13.69% 3
Yorkshire -40 9 £515 -4.10% 2
South West -35 5 - - 3
Scotland -23 4 £425 -37.04%
South East -69 3 £350 -24.16% 2
North West -57 2 £538 +19.98% 1
Wales - 2 £500 -
East of England -27 1 £513 +7.89%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Kerberos
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
1 7 (9.09%) JBoss
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.60%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (42.86%) Entra ID
2 29 (37.66%) Azure
3 13 (16.88%) AWS
4 9 (11.69%) GCP
5 7 (9.09%) IaaS
5 7 (9.09%) SaaS
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (5.19%) PaaS
8 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.90%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.90%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.30%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (28.57%) DNS
2 15 (19.48%) SAN
3 13 (16.88%) DHCP
4 11 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 10 (12.99%) Firewall
6 5 (6.49%) NAS
6 5 (6.49%) NGFW
7 3 (3.90%) SSH
8 2 (2.60%) Network Security
8 2 (2.60%) SSL
9 1 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (11.69%) SQLite
2 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.79%) Big Data
3 6 (7.79%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.19%) Db2
4 4 (5.19%) Metadata
5 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.60%) Flink
7 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.49%) JIRA
4 1 (1.30%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.30%) Gerrit
4 1 (1.30%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 25 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Finance
4 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.49%) Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (11.69%) Lead
3 8 (10.39%) Architect
4 7 (9.09%) Administrator
4 7 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (7.79%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.19%) Active Directory Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Consultant
7 4 (5.19%) Incident Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (5.19%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.19%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Major Incident Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (45.45%) LDAP
2 25 (32.47%) OAuth
3 22 (28.57%) SAML
4 16 (20.78%) OpenID
5 13 (16.88%) Terraform
6 9 (11.69%) OAuth2
7 8 (10.39%) SPNEGO
8 4 (5.19%) .NET
8 4 (5.19%) Middleware
8 4 (5.19%) REST
9 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.90%) SailPoint
10 2 (2.60%) FIDO
10 2 (2.60%) JDBC
10 2 (2.60%) JMX
10 2 (2.60%) Kafka
10 2 (2.60%) Mojolicious
10 2 (2.60%) Moose
10 2 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.60%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) Replication
2 12 (15.58%) PKI
3 11 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (12.99%) Onboarding
5 9 (11.69%) Clustering
6 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Storage
7 7 (9.09%) Data Centre
8 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
9 5 (6.49%) CMDB
9 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (5.19%) Mainframe
11 3 (3.90%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (3.90%) Operational Technology
12 2 (2.60%) Biopharmaceutical
12 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (2.60%) SCADA
13 1 (1.30%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.66%) Linux
2 25 (32.47%) Windows
3 21 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (18.18%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.49%) Unix
6 2 (2.60%) Rocky
6 2 (2.60%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.30%) CentOS
7 1 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.30%) SUSE
7 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.17%) ITIL
2 20 (25.97%) Identity Access Management
3 19 (24.68%) Privileged Access Management
4 18 (23.38%) Runbook
5 17 (22.08%) RBAC
6 16 (20.78%) Identity Management
7 15 (19.48%) Root Cause Analysis
8 12 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (11.69%) Incident Response
11 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (11.69%) Privileged Identity Management
11 9 (11.69%) Risk Management
12 8 (10.39%) DevOps
12 8 (10.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) PowerShell
2 16 (20.78%) Python
3 13 (16.88%) Bash
4 11 (14.29%) SQL
5 8 (10.39%) Korn
5 8 (10.39%) Perl
6 5 (6.49%) Bicep
6 5 (6.49%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.90%) C#
7 3 (3.90%) Java
8 1 (1.30%) Go
8 1 (1.30%) Groovy
8 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.30%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 7 (9.09%) MCSE
5 6 (7.79%) CISSP
6 5 (6.49%) CISM
6 5 (6.49%) Degree
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.60%) MCSA
10 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.30%) GIAC
10 1 (1.30%) HND
10 1 (1.30%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) NIST
2 2 (2.60%) GDPR
2 2 (2.60%) GxP
2 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.60%) NCSC
2 2 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (2.60%) SLA
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (68.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.49%) NFS
4 4 (5.19%) Docker
4 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.19%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.90%) vSphere
6 2 (2.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (2.60%) DFS Replication
6 2 (2.60%) KVM
7 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 9 (11.69%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (10.39%) Puppet
4 7 (9.09%) Failover Clustering
4 7 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.19%) Ansible
6 4 (5.19%) CA Single Sign-On
6 4 (5.19%) Grafana
6 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.19%) systemd
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (2.60%) Perfmon
7 2 (2.60%) SCCM
7 2 (2.60%) WSUS
8 1 (1.30%) Forefront Identity Manager
8 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (53.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 11 (14.29%) VMware
3 9 (11.69%) BeyondTrust
3 9 (11.69%) CyberArk
3 9 (11.69%) NetApp
4 7 (9.09%) Cisco
5 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.19%) Greenplum
6 4 (5.19%) Okta
6 4 (5.19%) Oracle
6 4 (5.19%) Splunk
6 4 (5.19%) Sybase
7 3 (3.90%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (3.90%) Ericsson
7 3 (3.90%) Nokia
8 2 (2.60%) Citrix
8 2 (2.60%) Commvault
8 2 (2.60%) Confluent
8 2 (2.60%) Veeam