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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 539 631
Rank change year-on-year +32 +92 +106
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 32 51 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.82% 0.94% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 39
10th Percentile £425 £400 £363
25th Percentile £469 £550 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +7.62% -5.51%
75th Percentile £600 £674 £713
90th Percentile £675 £920 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £672 £675
% change year-on-year -18.90% -0.44% +31.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £88.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £96.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £104.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £96.00 -
% change year-on-year -42.71% - -

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 3,890 5,433 7,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.42% 12.50% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,342 3,208 4,616
10th Percentile £230 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 428 433
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £62.55
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +115.91% -2.22%

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 3 July 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 11 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 3 July 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 +47 28 £525 -12.50% 46
UK excluding London +36 19 £545 -18.90% 18
Work from Home +31 11 £530 +10.13% 16
London +31 11 £500 -10.31% 31
North of England +15 9 £485 - 5
Yorkshire - 7 £469 - 2
South West +34 5 £535 -20.56% 2
Scotland -3 3 £650 - 3
North West +8 2 £500 - 3
South East +39 1 £750 +11.36% 6
East of England +23 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 8 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) GCP
3 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
4 5 (15.63%) Lucidchart
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub
5 3 (9.38%) Nutanix
6 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.25%) Serverless
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.13%) IaaS
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.13%) Route 53
7 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 4 (12.50%) DHCP
4 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.25%) HTTP
6 1 (3.13%) NAS
6 1 (3.13%) SAN
6 1 (3.13%) VLAN
6 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) CockroachDB
2 3 (9.38%) NewSQL
2 3 (9.38%) OLTP
3 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.13%) DocumentDB
4 1 (3.13%) Impala
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) Git
4 3 (9.38%) TeamCity
5 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.25%) Eclipse
5 2 (6.25%) IntelliJ
5 2 (6.25%) Maven
5 2 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.25%) Front Office
4 2 (6.25%) International Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Administrator
3 4 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Database Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) LDAP Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Identity Management Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Migration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (40.63%) LDAP
1 13 (40.63%) SAML
2 11 (34.38%) OAuth
2 11 (34.38%) OpenID
3 4 (12.50%) .NET
4 3 (9.38%) REST
4 3 (9.38%) Web Services
5 2 (6.25%) AWT
5 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.25%) JavaFX
5 2 (6.25%) JPA
5 2 (6.25%) JWT
5 2 (6.25%) Middleware
5 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
5 2 (6.25%) RESTful
5 2 (6.25%) SailPoint
5 2 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.25%) Swing
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Replication
2 6 (18.75%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (9.38%) Clustering
5 2 (6.25%) Client/Server
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) Unix
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (9.38%) Solaris
5 2 (6.25%) VMS
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) DevOps
2 11 (34.38%) RBAC
3 9 (28.13%) Agile
3 9 (28.13%) Migration
4 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
4 7 (21.88%) High Availability
4 7 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (21.88%) Identity Management
4 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (18.75%) Privileged Access Management
5 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (15.63%) Data Security
7 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (9.38%) Task Automation
8 3 (9.38%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Bash
3 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (6.25%) Java
6 2 (6.25%) Perl
6 2 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.13%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) Docker
3 3 (9.38%) NFS
3 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.25%) Veritas File System
4 2 (6.25%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (3.13%) HDFS
5 1 (3.13%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 10 (31.25%) Ansible
3 9 (28.13%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (18.75%) Terraform
5 3 (9.38%) Netcool
5 3 (9.38%) Tivoli
5 3 (9.38%) ZABBIX
6 2 (6.25%) Apache Ranger
6 2 (6.25%) Control-M
6 2 (6.25%) Grafana
6 2 (6.25%) Puppet
6 2 (6.25%) QRadar
6 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (3.13%) Graylog
7 1 (3.13%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (3.13%) Nagios
7 1 (3.13%) SELinux
7 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) CyberArk
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) IBM
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Qualys
2 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
2 3 (9.38%) Splunk
2 3 (9.38%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) BMC
3 2 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 2 (6.25%) Okta
3 2 (6.25%) SaltStack
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) EMC
4 1 (3.13%) Isilon
4 1 (3.13%) Serena
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Sybase