Kerberos Contract Job Trends

Kerberos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Kerberos skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 499 582
Rank change year-on-year -24 +83 +162
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 34 63 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.89% 1.37% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 36 32
10th Percentile £380 £430 £428
25th Percentile £423 £501 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £605 £648
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% -6.56% +7.92%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £719
90th Percentile £683 £913 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £675 £688
% change year-on-year -32.89% -1.82% +29.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £88.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £96.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +74.55% +46.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £104.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £96.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.71% +74.55% +46.67%

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 3,805 4,583 6,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.55% 11.89% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,363 2,666 4,180
10th Percentile £225 £225 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.50% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 252 305
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £16.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.37 £23.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -9.72% +36.12%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 13 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 19 September 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 -24 28 £453 -24.50% 9
UK excluding London +24 26 £453 -32.89% 6
North of England -13 15 £453 -37.52% 5
Work from Home +16 11 £511 -18.24% 4
North West +1 10 £448 - 2
London -31 7 £530 -3.64% 4
Yorkshire -12 5 £525 -27.59% 3
Scotland - 5 £675 -
South West +17 2 £425 -36.90%
South East +15 2 £599 -11.33% 1
East of England 0 1 £675 +80.00%
West Midlands -11 1 - -
Midlands -18 1 - -

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 10 (29.41%) Apache
1 10 (29.41%) IIS
1 10 (29.41%) iPlanet
1 10 (29.41%) JBoss
1 10 (29.41%) WebSphere
1 10 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (29.41%) OpenShift
3 9 (26.47%) Azure
4 8 (23.53%) Entra ID
5 5 (14.71%) GCP
6 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.88%) SaaS
7 2 (5.88%) ShareGate
8 1 (2.94%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.94%) Lucidchart
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) DHCP
3 2 (5.88%) HTTP
3 2 (5.88%) Network Security
3 2 (5.88%) SSH
3 2 (5.88%) SSL
3 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.94%) BGP
4 1 (2.94%) IPsec
4 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle Database
2 5 (14.71%) NewSQL
2 5 (14.71%) OLTP
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.82%) CockroachDB
4 2 (5.88%) Metadata
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Git
2 12 (35.29%) Jenkins
3 10 (29.41%) Bitbucket Server
3 10 (29.41%) CA Release Automation
4 8 (23.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.88%) Eclipse
5 2 (5.88%) IntelliJ
5 2 (5.88%) JIRA
5 2 (5.88%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Front Office
5 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Architect
1 6 (17.65%) Senior
2 5 (14.71%) Database Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) LDAP Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) UI Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Security Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (73.53%) SAML
2 23 (67.65%) OAuth
3 22 (64.71%) OpenID
4 21 (61.76%) LDAP
5 4 (11.76%) SailPoint
6 3 (8.82%) Middleware
7 2 (5.88%) AWT
7 2 (5.88%) JavaFX
7 2 (5.88%) JPA
7 2 (5.88%) JWT
7 2 (5.88%) OAuth2
7 2 (5.88%) RESTful
7 2 (5.88%) Spring
7 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.88%) Swing
7 2 (5.88%) Web Services
8 1 (2.94%) Kafka
8 1 (2.94%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Replication
2 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.76%) PKI
3 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team
4 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Linux
2 15 (44.12%) Windows
3 11 (32.35%) Unix
4 10 (29.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.94%) AIX
5 1 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) DevOps
2 13 (38.24%) Identity Access Management
3 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 8 (23.53%) Agile
4 8 (23.53%) RBAC
5 7 (20.59%) Deployment Automation
6 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 5 (14.71%) High Availability
7 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.71%) Task Automation
8 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (11.76%) Privileged Access Management
8 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
8 4 (11.76%) Zero Trust
9 3 (8.82%) Data Analysis
9 3 (8.82%) Identity Management
9 3 (8.82%) Runbook
9 3 (8.82%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Groovy
2 9 (26.47%) Shell Script
3 8 (23.53%) Python
4 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
5 5 (14.71%) ANSI SQL
5 5 (14.71%) SQL
6 3 (8.82%) Bash
7 2 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.76%) NIST
3 3 (8.82%) GDPR
3 3 (8.82%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (61.76%) Active Directory
2 10 (29.41%) Docker
3 8 (23.53%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 11 (32.35%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (29.41%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (29.41%) CA Wily
3 8 (23.53%) Progress Chef
3 8 (23.53%) Tivoli
4 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
5 4 (11.76%) Terraform
6 3 (8.82%) Ansible
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (5.88%) SCCM
8 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 19 (55.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) AppDynamics
2 10 (29.41%) Broadcom
2 10 (29.41%) IBM
2 10 (29.41%) Oracle
2 10 (29.41%) Splunk
3 5 (14.71%) CyberArk
4 3 (8.82%) ForgeRock
4 3 (8.82%) Okta
5 1 (2.94%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Solace
5 1 (2.94%) TIBCO