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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 500 535
Rank change year-on-year -68 +35 +97
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 78 32 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.61% 0.85% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 21 23
10th Percentile - £425 £400
25th Percentile £488 £469 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -11.67% +8.35%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £674
90th Percentile £672 £675 £920
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £672
% change year-on-year -3.67% -18.90% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
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 4,836 3,768 5,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.48% 12.33% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 2,296 3,192
10th Percentile £250 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -1.43%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.62% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 179 433
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.83 £21.99 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% - +114.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.05 £80.20 £73.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £36.57 £47.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -23.01% +115.91%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -85 69 £575 +9.52% 10
UK excluding London -89 37 £525 -3.67% 9
London -53 31 £600 +20.00% 3
Work from Home -33 28 £600 +13.21% 5
North of England -56 20 £610 +25.90% 7
South East -46 13 £525 -30.00% 2
North West -40 10 £624 +24.70% 2
Yorkshire -44 10 £565 +20.47% 4
Wales - 2 £500 -
South West -40 1 - -
North East - 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 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 4 (5.13%) SAS
2 2 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 60 (76.92%) Azure
2 53 (67.95%) Entra ID
3 14 (17.95%) AWS
4 7 (8.97%) GCP
4 7 (8.97%) OpenShift
4 7 (8.97%) SaaS
5 6 (7.69%) IaaS
5 6 (7.69%) PaaS
6 4 (5.13%) Serverless
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.28%) OCI
8 1 (1.28%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 39 (50.00%) DNS
2 31 (39.74%) DHCP
3 18 (23.08%) Firewall
4 8 (10.26%) SSL
5 7 (8.97%) TCP/IP
6 6 (7.69%) HTTP
7 4 (5.13%) IPsec
7 4 (5.13%) NAS
8 3 (3.85%) SAN
9 2 (2.56%) NGFW
10 1 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (1.28%) SSH
10 1 (1.28%) VPN
10 1 (1.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.56%) Db2
4 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.28%) MySQL
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) JIRA
General
1 12 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Finance
3 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Banking
3 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (1.28%) Aviation
5 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (17.95%) Architect
2 6 (7.69%) Senior
3 4 (5.13%) Active Directory Engineer
3 4 (5.13%) Lead
3 4 (5.13%) Senior Architect
3 4 (5.13%) Senior Technical Architect
3 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (5.13%) Technical Architect
4 3 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (3.85%) Consultant
4 3 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) Incident Manager
5 2 (2.56%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) Major Incident Manager
5 2 (2.56%) Security Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) Web Specialist
6 1 (1.28%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (69.23%) LDAP
2 36 (46.15%) SAML
3 34 (43.59%) OAuth
4 17 (21.79%) OpenID
5 8 (10.26%) OAuth2
6 4 (5.13%) REST
6 4 (5.13%) Web Services
6 4 (5.13%) XACML
7 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.56%) FIDO
8 2 (2.56%) Middleware
8 2 (2.56%) WebAuthn
9 1 (1.28%) .NET
9 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.28%) Keycloak
9 1 (1.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 30 (38.46%) Replication
2 9 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.41%) PKI
4 4 (5.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.56%) CMDB
6 2 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.56%) SCADA
6 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.28%) iSeries
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.77%) Windows
2 19 (24.36%) Windows Server
3 15 (19.23%) Linux
4 8 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.56%) Unix
7 1 (1.28%) CentOS
7 1 (1.28%) Rocky
7 1 (1.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.92%) Identity Access Management
2 19 (24.36%) RBAC
3 18 (23.08%) Migration
4 15 (19.23%) High Availability
4 15 (19.23%) ITIL
4 15 (19.23%) Task Automation
5 14 (17.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (15.38%) Digital Identity
6 12 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 10 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.82%) Runbook
8 9 (11.54%) Agile
8 9 (11.54%) Change Management
9 8 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 8 (10.26%) Identity Management
9 8 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (10.26%) Security Hardening
10 7 (8.97%) Design Patterns
10 7 (8.97%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 43 (55.13%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.26%) Python
3 7 (8.97%) SQL
4 3 (3.85%) Bash
4 3 (3.85%) Java
5 2 (2.56%) Bicep
5 2 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (1.28%) C#
6 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (44.87%) Security Cleared
2 30 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.85%) Degree
5 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.56%) MCSE
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) GIAC
6 1 (1.28%) HND
6 1 (1.28%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) GDPR
2 13 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (7.69%) NIST
4 2 (2.56%) NCSC
5 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (75.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.41%) NFS
3 4 (5.13%) Docker
3 4 (5.13%) RACF
4 2 (2.56%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.56%) KVM
4 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (42.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 26 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (10.26%) Ansible
4 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
5 4 (5.13%) Terraform
6 2 (2.56%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.28%) Data Guard
7 1 (1.28%) FreeIPA
7 1 (1.28%) Grafana
7 1 (1.28%) Nagios
7 1 (1.28%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (1.28%) Packer
7 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.28%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.23%) Okta
3 5 (6.41%) Oracle
4 4 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.85%) Forcepoint
6 2 (2.56%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.56%) Greenplum
6 2 (2.56%) Sybase
6 2 (2.56%) VMware
7 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.28%) Cisco
7 1 (1.28%) Isilon
7 1 (1.28%) NetApp
7 1 (1.28%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.28%) Splunk