Kerberos Contracts

Kerberos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Kerberos skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kerberos over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 549 643
Rank change year-on-year +68 +94 +23
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 38 51 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.02% 0.90% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 47
10th Percentile £465 - £385
25th Percentile £500 £550 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £548 £638 £715
90th Percentile £630 £758 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £547 £375 £675
% change year-on-year +45.87% -44.44% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £96.00 -
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 3,739 5,643 7,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.79% 12.94% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,297 3,382 4,789
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.58% +102.63% -31.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -46.41% +148.00% -13.95%

Kerberos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kerberos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kerberos.

Daily rate trend for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kerberos over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kerberos.

Hourly rate trend for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Top 9 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +60 36 £547 -3.19% 15
UK excluding London +66 24 £547 +45.87% 8
South West - 14 £547 - 3
Work from Home +48 12 £513 -18.00% 8
London +19 10 £513 -6.82% 10
North of England +35 9 £485 - 1
Yorkshire - 7 £469 -
North West +11 2 £500 - 1
East of England +31 1 £675 +80.00% 2

Kerberos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (23.68%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (13.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) AWS
2 12 (31.58%) Azure
3 8 (21.05%) GCP
4 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.16%) IaaS
5 5 (13.16%) Lucidchart
5 5 (13.16%) PaaS
5 5 (13.16%) SaaS
6 4 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (10.53%) GitHub
6 4 (10.53%) Nutanix
6 4 (10.53%) Route 53
6 4 (10.53%) Serverless
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (7.89%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.26%) Rubrik
8 2 (5.26%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (55.26%) DNS
2 13 (34.21%) Firewall
3 5 (13.16%) DHCP
4 3 (7.89%) IPsec
4 3 (7.89%) SSL
4 3 (7.89%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (2.63%) NAS
6 1 (2.63%) SAN
6 1 (2.63%) VLAN
6 1 (2.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.26%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.63%) Big Data
5 1 (2.63%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.63%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.63%) Impala
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JIRA
2 4 (10.53%) TeamCity
3 3 (7.89%) GitLab
3 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.89%) Maven
3 3 (7.89%) Subversion
4 2 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (2.63%) Serena SBM
General
1 9 (23.68%) Aerospace
2 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) International Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Architect
2 13 (34.21%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Systems Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Site Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Windows Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.26%) LDAP Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Administrator
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.63%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) .NET
2 11 (28.95%) LDAP
2 11 (28.95%) SAML
3 9 (23.68%) OAuth
3 9 (23.68%) OpenID
4 6 (15.79%) REST
5 4 (10.53%) Web Services
6 3 (7.89%) Node.js
6 3 (7.89%) OAuth2
6 3 (7.89%) Spring
6 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
6 3 (7.89%) XACML
7 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.26%) JWT
7 2 (5.26%) Middleware
8 1 (2.63%) Akka
8 1 (2.63%) JSON
8 1 (2.63%) Kafka
8 1 (2.63%) Play Framework
8 1 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (44.74%) Replication
2 13 (34.21%) Data Centre
2 13 (34.21%) PKI
3 4 (10.53%) Clustering
4 3 (7.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Windows
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 4 (10.53%) Solaris
4 4 (10.53%) Unix
5 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.26%) VMS
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) RBAC
2 11 (28.95%) DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) Migration
4 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (18.42%) Identity Management
4 7 (18.42%) Privileged Access Management
5 6 (15.79%) Agile
5 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
5 6 (15.79%) Data Security
5 6 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (13.16%) High Availability
6 5 (13.16%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (10.53%) Data Architecture
7 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) Bash
3 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 5 (13.16%) C#
4 5 (13.16%) SQL
5 4 (10.53%) Java
6 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.89%) Perl
7 2 (5.26%) Scala
8 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.63%) Ruby
8 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.26%) CISSP
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.63%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (2.63%) MCSE
3 1 (2.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (34.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (21.05%) Docker
3 4 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.89%) NFS
4 3 (7.89%) RACF
5 2 (5.26%) Veritas File System
5 2 (5.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (2.63%) HDFS
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (2.63%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Ansible
2 10 (26.32%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (21.05%) Kubernetes
4 7 (18.42%) Terraform
5 4 (10.53%) Tivoli
6 3 (7.89%) Control-M
6 3 (7.89%) Netcool
6 3 (7.89%) Packer
6 3 (7.89%) QRadar
6 3 (7.89%) ZABBIX
7 2 (5.26%) Apache Ranger
7 2 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (5.26%) Grafana
7 2 (5.26%) Puppet
7 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.63%) Graylog
8 1 (2.63%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (2.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) CyberArk
1 4 (10.53%) IBM
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle
1 4 (10.53%) Qualys
1 4 (10.53%) Red Hat
1 4 (10.53%) Splunk
1 4 (10.53%) VMware
2 3 (7.89%) BMC
3 2 (5.26%) Cloudera
3 2 (5.26%) EMC
3 2 (5.26%) ForgeRock
3 2 (5.26%) SaltStack
3 2 (5.26%) Serena
3 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.26%) Sybase
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Isilon
4 1 (2.63%) SAP