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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 490 537
Rank change year-on-year -41 +47 +90
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 90 40 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.97% 1.07% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 27 18
10th Percentile £471 £458 -
25th Percentile £488 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £545 £583
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -6.44% -0.85%
75th Percentile £618 £548 £638
90th Percentile £675 £620 £848
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £547 £375
% change year-on-year -4.02% +45.87% -44.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £89.20
25th Percentile - - £91.00
Median hourly rate - - £98.00
75th Percentile - - £103.00
90th Percentile - - £103.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £98.00

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 4,560 3,723 5,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.61% 12.79% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,831 2,290 3,296
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -2.50% -3.75%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 173 417
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £40.54 £36.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -8.75% +111.92%
75th Percentile £66.75 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.75 £68.21
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £45.88
% change year-on-year +92.62% -46.25% +148.00%

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 8 May 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 14 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 8 May 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 -68 78 £563 +3.21% 39
UK excluding London -79 41 £525 -4.02% 37
London -37 33 £600 +17.07% 8
Work from Home -12 31 £600 +17.07% 6
North of England -50 21 £610 +25.90% 8
South East - 14 £525 - 5
Yorkshire -44 11 £470 +0.21% 5
North West -31 10 £624 +24.70% 1
Midlands - 2 £545 - 6
Wales - 2 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £545 - 1
South West -50 1 - - 6
North East - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 6 (6.67%) SAS
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 71 (78.89%) Azure
2 59 (65.56%) Entra ID
3 17 (18.89%) AWS
4 9 (10.00%) GCP
5 7 (7.78%) OpenShift
5 7 (7.78%) SaaS
5 7 (7.78%) Serverless
6 5 (5.56%) IaaS
6 5 (5.56%) PaaS
7 3 (3.33%) GitHub
7 3 (3.33%) OCI
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 41 (45.56%) DNS
2 34 (37.78%) DHCP
3 19 (21.11%) Firewall
4 9 (10.00%) SSL
5 8 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.67%) HTTP
7 5 (5.56%) IPsec
8 3 (3.33%) VPN
9 2 (2.22%) NAS
9 2 (2.22%) NGFW
9 2 (2.22%) SSH
9 2 (2.22%) WAN
10 1 (1.11%) InfiniBand
10 1 (1.11%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.11%) iSCSI
10 1 (1.11%) LAN
10 1 (1.11%) SAN
10 1 (1.11%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 5 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Hive
3 3 (3.33%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.33%) Impala
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.22%) Big Data
4 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.22%) MySQL
4 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) HBase
5 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.22%) Git
2 2 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.11%) Gradle
3 1 (1.11%) JUnit
3 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (8.89%) Finance
3 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.67%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (1.11%) Aviation
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (18.89%) Architect
2 8 (8.89%) Consultant
2 8 (8.89%) Senior
3 6 (6.67%) Security Consultant
3 6 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (5.56%) Senior Architect
4 5 (5.56%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (5.56%) Technical Architect
5 4 (4.44%) Active Directory Consultant
5 4 (4.44%) Active Directory Engineer
5 4 (4.44%) Administrator
6 3 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Administrator
6 3 (3.33%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (3.33%) Oracle Architect
6 3 (3.33%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.22%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) Security Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (64.44%) LDAP
2 38 (42.22%) SAML
3 37 (41.11%) OAuth
4 17 (18.89%) OpenID
5 8 (8.89%) OAuth2
6 5 (5.56%) Web Services
6 5 (5.56%) XACML
7 4 (4.44%) REST
8 3 (3.33%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.22%) JSON
9 2 (2.22%) Kafka
9 2 (2.22%) YAML
10 1 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (1.11%) LAMP
10 1 (1.11%) LAPP Stack
10 1 (1.11%) libvirt
10 1 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (1.11%) SailPoint
10 1 (1.11%) Spring
10 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (36.67%) Replication
2 9 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 5 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.22%) CMDB
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) PKI
6 2 (2.22%) SCADA
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.89%) Windows
2 20 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 18 (20.00%) Linux
4 10 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.22%) CentOS
7 1 (1.11%) Rocky
7 1 (1.11%) SUSE
7 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.44%) RBAC
2 21 (23.33%) Identity Access Management
2 21 (23.33%) Migration
3 18 (20.00%) Task Automation
4 17 (18.89%) High Availability
4 17 (18.89%) Roadmaps
5 15 (16.67%) Agile
5 15 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 14 (15.56%) Digital Identity
7 12 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 12 (13.33%) ITIL
7 12 (13.33%) Security Hardening
8 11 (12.22%) Privileged Access Management
8 11 (12.22%) Zero Trust
9 10 (11.11%) Change Management
9 10 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 10 (11.11%) Identity Management
10 9 (10.00%) Privileged Identity Management
10 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.11%) PowerShell
2 11 (12.22%) Python
3 9 (10.00%) SQL
4 5 (5.56%) Bash
5 4 (4.44%) Java
6 3 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.22%) Bicep
7 2 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (1.11%) Perl
8 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 44 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 37 (41.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) MCSE
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Degree
5 1 (1.11%) GSEC
5 1 (1.11%) HND
5 1 (1.11%) OCP
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) GDPR
2 15 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (6.67%) NCSC
3 6 (6.67%) NIST
4 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 64 (71.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.67%) Docker
3 5 (5.56%) RACF
4 4 (4.44%) NFS
5 3 (3.33%) HDFS
5 3 (3.33%) KVM
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (1.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (1.11%) Ceph
7 1 (1.11%) iptables
7 1 (1.11%) Lustre
7 1 (1.11%) Samba
7 1 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (38.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 29 (32.22%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (13.33%) Ansible
4 7 (7.78%) Terraform
5 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.33%) Data Guard
6 3 (3.33%) Grafana
6 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.11%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.11%) Nagios
8 1 (1.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (1.11%) Packer
8 1 (1.11%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.11%) SELinux
8 1 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (63.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.78%) Okta
3 7 (7.78%) Oracle
4 5 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.33%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.33%) Forcepoint
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco
7 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.11%) Isilon
7 1 (1.11%) NetApp
7 1 (1.11%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.11%) Splunk