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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 531 485 540
Rank change year-on-year -46 +55 +101
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 88 39 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.96% 1.03% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 26 16
10th Percentile £470 £466 -
25th Percentile £488 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £547 £583
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -6.09% +1.30%
75th Percentile £621 £568 £656
90th Percentile £675 £660 £856
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £547 -
% change year-on-year -4.02% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.60
25th Percentile - - £69.63
Median hourly rate - - £96.00
75th Percentile - - £102.00
90th Percentile - - £103.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £96.00

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 4,488 3,789 5,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.73% 12.88% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,816 2,345 3,442
10th Percentile £238 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - -5.80%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 168 421
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.85
25th Percentile £20.75 £21.00 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -6.25% +110.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £61.69 £62.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £46.39
% change year-on-year +96.43% -39.64% +150.76%

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 18 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 11 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 18 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 -63 78 £563 +2.83% 6
UK excluding London -78 40 £525 -4.02% 6
Work from Home -20 31 £600 +17.07% 6
London -24 31 £600 +14.29% 4
North of England -56 21 £610 +25.90% 1
South East - 15 £525 - 2
Yorkshire -52 11 £470 +0.21% 1
North West -38 10 £624 +24.70%
Midlands - 4 £545 -
West Midlands - 4 £545 -
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 7 (7.95%) SAS
2 1 (1.14%) Apache
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (79.55%) Azure
2 54 (61.36%) Entra ID
3 18 (20.45%) AWS
4 10 (11.36%) GCP
5 8 (9.09%) Serverless
6 7 (7.95%) SaaS
7 5 (5.68%) GitHub
7 5 (5.68%) IaaS
7 5 (5.68%) PaaS
8 4 (4.55%) OpenShift
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.41%) OCI
9 3 (3.41%) Route 53
9 3 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 38 (43.18%) DNS
2 32 (36.36%) DHCP
3 17 (19.32%) Firewall
4 8 (9.09%) SSL
5 7 (7.95%) HTTP
6 6 (6.82%) TCP/IP
7 5 (5.68%) IPsec
8 4 (4.55%) VPN
9 3 (3.41%) SSH
10 2 (2.27%) X.500
11 1 (1.14%) InfiniBand
11 1 (1.14%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.14%) LAN
11 1 (1.14%) NAS
11 1 (1.14%) Spanning Tree
11 1 (1.14%) VLAN
11 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.95%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (7.95%) Oracle Database
1 7 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.55%) Hadoop
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Hive
3 3 (3.41%) Big Data
3 3 (3.41%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.41%) Impala
3 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.41%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.27%) HBase
4 2 (2.27%) MySQL
4 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.41%) GitLab
3 2 (2.27%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.27%) Gradle
3 2 (2.27%) JUnit
3 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Banking
5 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.27%) Legal
6 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Aviation
7 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Architect
2 11 (12.50%) Consultant
3 8 (9.09%) Senior
4 7 (7.95%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.82%) Security Consultant
6 5 (5.68%) Senior Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Senior Technical Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Active Directory Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Administrator
7 4 (4.55%) Cloud Administrator
8 3 (3.41%) Active Directory Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Oracle Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Oracle Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.27%) Java Developer
9 2 (2.27%) Lead
9 2 (2.27%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (2.27%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (69.32%) LDAP
2 38 (43.18%) SAML
3 35 (39.77%) OAuth
4 13 (14.77%) OpenID
5 6 (6.82%) OAuth2
6 5 (5.68%) Web Services
6 5 (5.68%) XACML
7 4 (4.55%) REST
8 3 (3.41%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.41%) JSON
8 3 (3.41%) Kafka
8 3 (3.41%) YAML
9 2 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.27%) Spring
9 2 (2.27%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.14%) LAMP
10 1 (1.14%) LAPP Stack
10 1 (1.14%) libvirt
10 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
10 1 (1.14%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 34 (38.64%) Replication
2 7 (7.95%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.68%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.41%) PKI
6 2 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.55%) Windows
2 19 (21.59%) Windows Server
3 16 (18.18%) Linux
4 8 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.27%) AIX
6 2 (2.27%) Solaris
6 2 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.14%) CentOS
7 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.00%) RBAC
2 21 (23.86%) Migration
3 20 (22.73%) Identity Access Management
4 19 (21.59%) Roadmaps
5 17 (19.32%) Task Automation
6 16 (18.18%) Agile
7 15 (17.05%) High Availability
8 14 (15.91%) Digital Identity
8 14 (15.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
10 12 (13.64%) Privileged Access Management
11 11 (12.50%) Zero Trust
12 10 (11.36%) Security Hardening
13 9 (10.23%) Change Management
13 9 (10.23%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (10.23%) DevOps
13 9 (10.23%) ITIL
14 8 (9.09%) Design Patterns
14 8 (9.09%) Identity Management
14 8 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.73%) PowerShell
2 9 (10.23%) Python
3 8 (9.09%) SQL
4 5 (5.68%) Java
5 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.27%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) Go
7 1 (1.14%) Perl
7 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (48.86%) Security Cleared
2 38 (43.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.27%) OCP
4 2 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.14%) Degree
5 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.18%) GDPR
2 15 (17.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (6.82%) NCSC
4 5 (5.68%) NIST
5 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 58 (65.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) Docker
3 5 (5.68%) RACF
4 3 (3.41%) HDFS
4 3 (3.41%) NFS
4 3 (3.41%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.14%) Ceph
6 1 (1.14%) iptables
6 1 (1.14%) KVM
6 1 (1.14%) Lustre
6 1 (1.14%) Samba
6 1 (1.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (42.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 26 (29.55%) Single Sign-On
3 10 (11.36%) Ansible
4 5 (5.68%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.55%) Terraform
6 3 (3.41%) Data Guard
6 3 (3.41%) Grafana
6 3 (3.41%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.14%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (1.14%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.14%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.14%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.14%) SELinux
Vendors
1 54 (61.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.18%) Okta
3 8 (9.09%) Oracle
4 4 (4.55%) Cloudera
4 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.41%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.41%) Forcepoint
6 2 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.14%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.14%) Isilon
7 1 (1.14%) NetApp
7 1 (1.14%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.14%) Palo Alto