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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 476 548
Rank change year-on-year -36 +72 +110
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 97 43 49
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.20% 1.13% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 31 14
10th Percentile £456 £463 -
25th Percentile £488 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £547 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -10.69% +10.61%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £694
90th Percentile £675 £750 £869
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £547 £325
% change year-on-year -4.02% +68.31% -50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.13
25th Percentile - - £63.44
Median hourly rate - - £76.25
75th Percentile - - £88.44
90th Percentile - - £95.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £76.25

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 4,409 3,818 5,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 13.11% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,840 2,370 3,543
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 145 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.94
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +71.05%
75th Percentile £67.31 £63.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £43.12
% change year-on-year +29.05% -24.62% +128.00%

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 24 March 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 12 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 24 March 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 -65 85 £537 -1.83% 8
UK excluding London -60 52 £525 -4.02% 2
Work from Home -17 30 £600 +20.00% 2
North of England -49 27 £570 +17.65%
London -49 26 £600 -7.69% 6
South East - 18 £525 - 1
Yorkshire -48 17 £519 +10.55%
North West -27 10 £624 +24.70%
Midlands - 6 £545 -
West Midlands - 6 £545 -
East of England - 1 £475 -
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 9 (9.28%) SAS
2 4 (4.12%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 67 (69.07%) Azure
2 51 (52.58%) Entra ID
3 22 (22.68%) AWS
4 10 (10.31%) GCP
5 9 (9.28%) Serverless
6 8 (8.25%) GitHub
7 6 (6.19%) SaaS
8 5 (5.15%) Datadog
8 5 (5.15%) IaaS
8 5 (5.15%) PaaS
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.12%) OCI
9 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.12%) Route 53
10 3 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (3.09%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 35 (36.08%) DNS
2 30 (30.93%) DHCP
3 18 (18.56%) Firewall
4 7 (7.22%) SSL
5 6 (6.19%) HTTP
6 5 (5.15%) IPsec
6 5 (5.15%) SSH
7 4 (4.12%) TCP/IP
7 4 (4.12%) VPN
8 2 (2.06%) X.500
9 1 (1.03%) InfiniBand
9 1 (1.03%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.03%) LAN
9 1 (1.03%) NAS
9 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.03%) Spanning Tree
9 1 (1.03%) VLAN
9 1 (1.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (9.28%) Oracle Database
1 9 (9.28%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.15%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.15%) HBase
2 5 (5.15%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.12%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.09%) Apache Hive
4 3 (3.09%) Big Data
4 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.09%) Impala
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.19%) GitLab
3 5 (5.15%) Artifactory
3 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
3 5 (5.15%) Gradle
3 5 (5.15%) JUnit
3 5 (5.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (4.12%) JIRA
5 1 (1.03%) Git
5 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (12.37%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.15%) Banking
4 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.12%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Aviation
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 23 (23.71%) Architect
2 12 (12.37%) Consultant
3 11 (11.34%) Senior
4 8 (8.25%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (6.19%) Security Consultant
6 5 (5.15%) Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (5.15%) Senior Technical Architect
6 5 (5.15%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Administrator
7 4 (4.12%) AWS Developer
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Administrator
7 4 (4.12%) Design Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.12%) Management Consultant
8 3 (3.09%) Oracle Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (60.82%) LDAP
2 44 (45.36%) SAML
3 42 (43.30%) OAuth
4 11 (11.34%) OpenID
5 6 (6.19%) Kafka
6 5 (5.15%) OAuth2
6 5 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (5.15%) Spring
6 5 (5.15%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.15%) Web Services
6 5 (5.15%) XACML
7 3 (3.09%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.09%) JSON
7 3 (3.09%) REST
7 3 (3.09%) YAML
8 1 (1.03%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.03%) libvirt
8 1 (1.03%) RESTful
8 1 (1.03%) SailPoint
8 1 (1.03%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (32.99%) Replication
2 9 (9.28%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.19%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.09%) PKI
7 1 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (30.93%) Windows
2 21 (21.65%) Windows Server
3 20 (20.62%) Linux
4 9 (9.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (4.12%) AIX
6 4 (4.12%) Solaris
7 1 (1.03%) CentOS
7 1 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.03%) Unix
7 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.80%) Identity Access Management
2 22 (22.68%) Migration
2 22 (22.68%) RBAC
3 19 (19.59%) Roadmaps
4 18 (18.56%) Agile
5 17 (17.53%) Privileged Access Management
6 16 (16.49%) CI/CD
6 16 (16.49%) Task Automation
7 15 (15.46%) Cybersecurity
7 15 (15.46%) High Availability
8 14 (14.43%) Digital Identity
8 14 (14.43%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (12.37%) Identity Management
10 11 (11.34%) Architectural Patterns
10 11 (11.34%) Zero Trust
11 10 (10.31%) Decision-Making
11 10 (10.31%) Microservices
11 10 (10.31%) SOA
12 9 (9.28%) Change Management
12 9 (9.28%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.33%) PowerShell
2 12 (12.37%) Python
3 9 (9.28%) Java
4 8 (8.25%) SQL
5 4 (4.12%) Bash
6 3 (3.09%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.03%) Go
7 1 (1.03%) Perl
7 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (46.39%) Security Cleared
2 40 (41.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) CISM
3 5 (5.15%) CISSP
3 5 (5.15%) OCP
3 5 (5.15%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (5.15%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.09%) PhD
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) GDPR
1 15 (15.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 6 (6.19%) NCSC
3 4 (4.12%) NIST
4 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (59.79%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.22%) Docker
3 5 (5.15%) RACF
4 3 (3.09%) HDFS
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.06%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (2.06%) NFS
6 1 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.03%) Ceph
6 1 (1.03%) iptables
6 1 (1.03%) KVM
6 1 (1.03%) Lustre
6 1 (1.03%) Samba
6 1 (1.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (38.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 30 (30.93%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (13.40%) Ansible
4 8 (8.25%) Kubernetes
5 6 (6.19%) Grafana
6 5 (5.15%) Terraform
7 3 (3.09%) Data Guard
7 3 (3.09%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (1.03%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (1.03%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.03%) Nagios
8 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.03%) Puppet
8 1 (1.03%) SELinux
Vendors
1 56 (57.73%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.49%) Okta
3 9 (9.28%) Oracle
4 6 (6.19%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.12%) BeyondTrust
5 4 (4.12%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.12%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.09%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (2.06%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.03%) Citrix
8 1 (1.03%) Isilon
8 1 (1.03%) NetApp
8 1 (1.03%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.03%) Splunk
8 1 (1.03%) VMware