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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 476 550
Rank change year-on-year -54 +74 +99
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 95 43 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 1.14% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 29 15
10th Percentile £466 £468 -
25th Percentile £488 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £547 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -3.19% -0.22%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £755 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £547 £325
% change year-on-year -4.02% +68.31% -50.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.13
25th Percentile - - £63.44
Median hourly rate - - £76.25
75th Percentile - - £88.44
90th Percentile - - £95.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.25

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 4,466 3,766 5,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 12.97% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 2,332 3,562
10th Percentile £224 £213 £205
25th Percentile £380 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 148 408
10th Percentile £15.56 £14.99 £13.96
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.94 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.83% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.38 £62.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £67.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £31.79 £44.00
% change year-on-year +53.26% -27.75% +137.84%

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 1 April 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
Top 12 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 1 April 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 -66 83 £544 -0.64% 6
UK excluding London -71 45 £525 -4.02% 2
London -52 31 £600 -7.69% 4
Work from Home -24 30 £600 +17.07% 3
North of England -56 22 £590 +21.78%
South East - 16 £525 - 1
Yorkshire -49 12 £469 -
North West -33 10 £624 +24.70%
Midlands - 6 £545 -
West Midlands - 6 £545 -
East of England - 1 £475 -
North East - 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 9 (9.47%) SAS
2 1 (1.05%) Apache
2 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (73.68%) Azure
2 54 (56.84%) Entra ID
3 20 (21.05%) AWS
4 10 (10.53%) GCP
5 9 (9.47%) Serverless
6 6 (6.32%) GitHub
6 6 (6.32%) SaaS
7 5 (5.26%) IaaS
7 5 (5.26%) PaaS
8 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.21%) OCI
8 4 (4.21%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.21%) Route 53
9 3 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.16%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (3.16%) Datadog
9 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (41.05%) DNS
2 32 (33.68%) DHCP
3 19 (20.00%) Firewall
4 8 (8.42%) SSL
5 7 (7.37%) HTTP
6 6 (6.32%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.26%) IPsec
7 5 (5.26%) SSH
7 5 (5.26%) VPN
8 2 (2.11%) X.500
9 1 (1.05%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.05%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.05%) LAN
9 1 (1.05%) NAS
9 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.05%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.05%) VLAN
9 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (9.47%) Oracle Database
2 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.21%) Hadoop
3 4 (4.21%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.16%) Apache Hive
4 3 (3.16%) Big Data
4 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.16%) HBase
4 3 (3.16%) Impala
4 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (2.11%) MySQL
6 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.32%) GitLab
3 3 (3.16%) Artifactory
3 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.16%) Gradle
3 3 (3.16%) JUnit
3 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.05%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) JIRA
4 1 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (11.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Banking
4 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Legal
7 1 (1.05%) Aviation
7 1 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (21.05%) Architect
2 13 (13.68%) Consultant
3 9 (9.47%) Senior
4 8 (8.42%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.32%) Security Consultant
6 5 (5.26%) Senior Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Active Directory Consultant
7 4 (4.21%) Administrator
7 4 (4.21%) Cloud Administrator
7 4 (4.21%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.21%) Management Consultant
8 3 (3.16%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Oracle Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.16%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (66.32%) LDAP
2 41 (43.16%) SAML
3 38 (40.00%) OAuth
4 12 (12.63%) OpenID
5 5 (5.26%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.26%) Web Services
5 5 (5.26%) XACML
6 4 (4.21%) Kafka
7 3 (3.16%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.16%) JSON
7 3 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.16%) REST
7 3 (3.16%) Spring
7 3 (3.16%) Spring Boot
7 3 (3.16%) YAML
8 1 (1.05%) LAMP
8 1 (1.05%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (1.05%) RESTful
8 1 (1.05%) SailPoint
8 1 (1.05%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (35.79%) Replication
2 9 (9.47%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.21%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.21%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.16%) PKI
6 2 (2.11%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (32.63%) Windows
2 22 (23.16%) Windows Server
3 21 (22.11%) Linux
4 10 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.32%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (6.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.21%) AIX
6 4 (4.21%) Solaris
7 2 (2.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.05%) CentOS
8 1 (1.05%) Unix
8 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.21%) RBAC
2 22 (23.16%) Migration
3 21 (22.11%) Identity Access Management
4 20 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 18 (18.95%) Agile
6 17 (17.89%) Task Automation
7 15 (15.79%) High Availability
7 15 (15.79%) Privileged Access Management
8 14 (14.74%) CI/CD
8 14 (14.74%) Digital Identity
8 14 (14.74%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (11.58%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (11.58%) Zero Trust
10 10 (10.53%) DevOps
10 10 (10.53%) Identity Management
10 10 (10.53%) Security Hardening
11 9 (9.47%) Change Management
11 9 (9.47%) ITIL
12 8 (8.42%) Microservices
12 8 (8.42%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.37%) PowerShell
2 12 (12.63%) Python
3 8 (8.42%) SQL
4 7 (7.37%) Java
5 4 (4.21%) Bash
6 3 (3.16%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.05%) Go
7 1 (1.05%) Perl
7 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 40 (42.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.16%) OCP
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Degree
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.05%) CISM
6 1 (1.05%) CISSP
6 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) GSEC
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) PhD
6 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) GDPR
2 15 (15.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (7.37%) NIST
4 6 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (6.32%) NCSC
5 2 (2.11%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (65.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.37%) Docker
3 5 (5.26%) RACF
4 3 (3.16%) HDFS
4 3 (3.16%) NFS
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.05%) Ceph
6 1 (1.05%) iptables
6 1 (1.05%) KVM
6 1 (1.05%) Lustre
6 1 (1.05%) Samba
6 1 (1.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (38.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 28 (29.47%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (13.68%) Ansible
4 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.26%) Terraform
6 4 (4.21%) Grafana
7 3 (3.16%) Data Guard
7 3 (3.16%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.05%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (1.05%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.05%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.05%) Nagios
8 1 (1.05%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.05%) Puppet
8 1 (1.05%) SELinux
Vendors
1 56 (58.95%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.84%) Okta
3 10 (10.53%) Oracle
4 5 (5.26%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.21%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (4.21%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.21%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.16%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.05%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.05%) Citrix
7 1 (1.05%) Isilon
7 1 (1.05%) NetApp
7 1 (1.05%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.05%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.05%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.05%) Splunk
7 1 (1.05%) VMware