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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 487 542
Rank change year-on-year -30 +55 +183
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 71 55 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 1.30% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 21
10th Percentile £410 £430 £431
25th Percentile £442 £522 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% -18.52% +27.36%
75th Percentile £614 £691 £750
90th Percentile £675 £775 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £548 £725
% change year-on-year -15.78% -24.41% +38.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £52.75
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - £56.40
90th Percentile - - £82.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +266.67%

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 3,970 4,228 5,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.70% 12.75% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,480 3,605
10th Percentile £206 £220 £209
25th Percentile £356 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £473
% change year-on-year -5.26% +0.53% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 138 329
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.86 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.88 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +68.63%
75th Percentile £65.50 £57.81 £65.98
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.38 £75.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £57.99
% change year-on-year +30.77% -43.96% +50.62%

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 1 January 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 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 1 January 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 -33 59 £471 -14.36% 27
UK excluding London -20 43 £462 -15.78% 19
North of England -31 24 £468 -35.45% 8
Work from Home -3 19 £506 -17.01% 16
London -35 14 £544 -7.84% 8
Yorkshire -39 14 £525 -27.59% 3
North West - 10 £448 - 4
Midlands - 7 £545 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £545 - 1
South East -7 6 £462 -31.63% 6
South West -14 3 £425 -22.45% 2
Scotland - 2 £700 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 4

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 11 (15.49%) Apache
2 10 (14.08%) IIS
2 10 (14.08%) iPlanet
2 10 (14.08%) JBoss
2 10 (14.08%) WebSphere
2 10 (14.08%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (8.45%) SAS
4 5 (7.04%) Confluence
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.66%) Azure
2 27 (38.03%) AWS
3 20 (28.17%) Entra ID
4 9 (12.68%) GCP
4 9 (12.68%) OpenShift
5 8 (11.27%) GitHub
6 5 (7.04%) Datadog
6 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.04%) SaaS
6 5 (7.04%) Serverless
7 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.63%) OCI
7 4 (5.63%) Route 53
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.23%) AWS Direct Connect
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.23%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.49%) DNS
2 9 (12.68%) Firewall
3 7 (9.86%) DHCP
3 7 (9.86%) SSH
4 5 (7.04%) VPN
5 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.23%) HTTP
6 3 (4.23%) SSL
7 2 (2.82%) IPsec
7 2 (2.82%) Network Security
7 2 (2.82%) X.500
8 1 (1.41%) BGP
8 1 (1.41%) InfiniBand
8 1 (1.41%) Internet
8 1 (1.41%) iSCSI
8 1 (1.41%) LAN
8 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (1.41%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (1.41%) VLAN
8 1 (1.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.54%) Oracle Database
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
4 5 (7.04%) HBase
4 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.04%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.63%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.23%) Apache Hive
6 3 (4.23%) Big Data
6 3 (4.23%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.23%) Impala
6 3 (4.23%) Metadata
6 3 (4.23%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (4.23%) Power BI
7 2 (2.82%) NewSQL
7 2 (2.82%) OLTP
8 1 (1.41%) MySQL
8 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (16.90%) Git
4 10 (14.08%) Bitbucket Server
4 10 (14.08%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (8.45%) GitLab
6 5 (7.04%) Artifactory
6 5 (7.04%) Cucumber
6 5 (7.04%) Gradle
6 5 (7.04%) JIRA
6 5 (7.04%) JUnit
7 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (25.35%) Finance
2 17 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Architect
2 13 (18.31%) Consultant
3 11 (15.49%) Senior
4 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Security Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Java Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Management Consultant
5 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
5 5 (7.04%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (5.63%) Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) AWS Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Cloud Administrator
6 4 (5.63%) Design Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (56.34%) LDAP
2 39 (54.93%) OAuth
2 39 (54.93%) SAML
3 24 (33.80%) OpenID
4 7 (9.86%) Kafka
5 5 (7.04%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (7.04%) Spring
5 5 (7.04%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.23%) JSON
6 3 (4.23%) YAML
7 2 (2.82%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.82%) SailPoint
8 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.41%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.41%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (1.41%) libvirt
8 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
8 1 (1.41%) REST
8 1 (1.41%) RESTful
8 1 (1.41%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Replication
2 7 (9.86%) Management Information System
3 6 (8.45%) PKI
3 6 (8.45%) Public Cloud
4 5 (7.04%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.63%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.63%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (40.85%) Windows
2 28 (39.44%) Linux
3 15 (21.13%) Windows Server
4 10 (14.08%) Unix
5 6 (8.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (7.04%) AIX
6 5 (7.04%) Solaris
7 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.41%) CentOS
8 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) CI/CD
2 20 (28.17%) Identity Access Management
3 18 (25.35%) Privileged Access Management
4 17 (23.94%) DevOps
5 15 (21.13%) RBAC
5 15 (21.13%) Roadmaps
6 13 (18.31%) Agile
7 12 (16.90%) Identity Management
7 12 (16.90%) Migration
7 12 (16.90%) Zero Trust
8 11 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (12.68%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.68%) Decision-Making
9 9 (12.68%) Risk Management
10 8 (11.27%) Security Hardening
10 8 (11.27%) Task Automation
11 7 (9.86%) Architecture Governance
11 7 (9.86%) Privileged Identity Management
11 7 (9.86%) Remediation Plan
11 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.72%) PowerShell
2 13 (18.31%) Python
3 10 (14.08%) Groovy
3 10 (14.08%) Shell Script
4 7 (9.86%) Java
5 6 (8.45%) SQL
6 5 (7.04%) Bash
7 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.82%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.45%) AWS Certification
3 6 (8.45%) CISSP
3 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (7.04%) CISM
4 5 (7.04%) OCP
4 5 (7.04%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (7.04%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (4.23%) Degree
5 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.23%) PhD
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.41%) GSEC
6 1 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.45%) GDPR
2 6 (8.45%) NCSC
3 4 (5.63%) NIST
4 3 (4.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.23%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (59.15%) Active Directory
2 13 (18.31%) Docker
3 8 (11.27%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (4.23%) HDFS
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (2.82%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.41%) Ceph
6 1 (1.41%) iptables
6 1 (1.41%) KVM
6 1 (1.41%) Lustre
6 1 (1.41%) NFS
6 1 (1.41%) RACF
6 1 (1.41%) Samba
6 1 (1.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (15.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 10 (14.08%) Ansible
3 10 (14.08%) CA Single Sign-On
3 10 (14.08%) CA Wily
4 9 (12.68%) Progress Chef
5 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
5 8 (11.27%) Terraform
5 8 (11.27%) Tivoli
6 6 (8.45%) Grafana
7 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.23%) Data Guard
8 3 (4.23%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (4.23%) SCCM
9 1 (1.41%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (1.41%) Nagios
9 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.41%) Puppet
9 1 (1.41%) SELinux
Vendors
1 39 (54.93%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.54%) Oracle
3 11 (15.49%) Splunk
4 10 (14.08%) AppDynamics
4 10 (14.08%) Broadcom
4 10 (14.08%) IBM
5 8 (11.27%) CyberArk
6 5 (7.04%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (5.63%) Cloudera
8 3 (4.23%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (4.23%) Okta
9 1 (1.41%) Citrix
9 1 (1.41%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.41%) Google
9 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.41%) SaltStack
9 1 (1.41%) Solace
9 1 (1.41%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.41%) VMware