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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 535 504
Rank change year-on-year -84 -31 +99
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 65 33 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.100% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.28% 0.87% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 25 35
10th Percentile £406 £380 £423
25th Percentile £450 £423 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £453 £610
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -25.74% -7.92%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £719
90th Percentile £725 £683 £915
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £453 £675
% change year-on-year +10.38% -32.89% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £74.75 £53.40 -
25th Percentile £78.13 £54.75 £88.00
Median hourly rate £85.00 £59.00 £96.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.07% -38.54% +74.55%
75th Percentile £90.63 £62.75 £104.00
90th Percentile £93.25 £63.80 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £95.00 £59.00 £96.00
% change year-on-year +61.02% -38.54% +74.55%

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 5,085 3,778 4,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.30% 11.43% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,938 2,361 2,639
10th Percentile £234 £220 £227
25th Percentile £390 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 200 224
10th Percentile £14.10 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.11 £23.63
Median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.94% -15.42% -11.05%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.11 £73.20 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -34.12% -25.89% -0.11%

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 27 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kerberos over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Kerberos in the UK

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 27 September 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 -84 55 £513 +13.13% 18
London -49 37 £520 -1.89% 11
UK excluding London -99 21 £500 +10.38% 5
Work from Home -41 20 £500 -2.15% 3
Yorkshire -41 7 £540 -4.00%
North of England -72 7 £540 +19.60% 1
South West -30 5 - - 1
South East -65 3 £350 -41.52% 1
Scotland -27 2 £500 -25.93%
Wales - 2 £500 -
East of England -20 1 £513 -24.07%
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 7 (10.77%) JBoss
2 4 (6.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (38.46%) Entra ID
2 24 (36.92%) Azure
3 12 (18.46%) AWS
4 8 (12.31%) GCP
5 7 (10.77%) SaaS
6 5 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (7.69%) IaaS
7 4 (6.15%) PaaS
8 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.62%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.54%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 20 (30.77%) DNS
2 15 (23.08%) SAN
3 14 (21.54%) DHCP
4 11 (16.92%) TCP/IP
5 10 (15.38%) Firewall
6 5 (7.69%) NAS
6 5 (7.69%) NGFW
7 2 (3.08%) SSH
7 2 (3.08%) SSL
8 1 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (13.85%) SQLite
2 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.23%) Big Data
3 6 (9.23%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.15%) Db2
5 3 (4.62%) Metadata
6 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.08%) Flink
7 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.54%) MySQL
7 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Git
2 9 (13.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.54%) Gerrit
4 1 (1.54%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Finance
4 5 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.15%) Banking
5 4 (6.15%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (10.77%) Administrator
2 7 (10.77%) Architect
2 7 (10.77%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (9.23%) Lead
3 6 (9.23%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.15%) Active Directory Architect
5 4 (6.15%) Active Directory Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Incident Manager
5 4 (6.15%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (6.15%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.15%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Major Incident Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Production Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Support Manager
7 2 (3.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (49.23%) LDAP
2 22 (33.85%) OAuth
3 19 (29.23%) SAML
4 17 (26.15%) OpenID
5 9 (13.85%) OAuth2
5 9 (13.85%) Terraform
6 8 (12.31%) SPNEGO
7 4 (6.15%) .NET
7 4 (6.15%) Middleware
7 4 (6.15%) REST
8 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (3.08%) FIDO
9 2 (3.08%) JDBC
9 2 (3.08%) JMX
9 2 (3.08%) Kafka
9 2 (3.08%) Mojolicious
9 2 (3.08%) Moose
9 2 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (3.08%) SailPoint
9 2 (3.08%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Replication
2 10 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 8 (12.31%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (12.31%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (12.31%) PKI
4 7 (10.77%) Clustering
4 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
5 5 (7.69%) CMDB
5 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (6.15%) Mainframe
7 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.62%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (4.62%) Operational Technology
8 2 (3.08%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (3.08%) SCADA
8 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.54%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.00%) Linux
2 20 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (24.62%) Windows
4 7 (10.77%) Windows Server
5 5 (7.69%) Unix
6 2 (3.08%) Rocky
6 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.54%) CentOS
7 1 (1.54%) SUSE
7 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) ITIL
2 16 (24.62%) Runbook
3 15 (23.08%) Identity Management
4 14 (21.54%) Privileged Access Management
4 14 (21.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 13 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (20.00%) RBAC
6 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.85%) DevOps
9 9 (13.85%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (13.85%) Privileged Identity Management
9 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (12.31%) Configuration Management
10 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.31%) Problem Management
11 7 (10.77%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.31%) PowerShell
2 15 (23.08%) Python
3 12 (18.46%) Bash
4 11 (16.92%) SQL
5 8 (12.31%) Korn
5 8 (12.31%) Perl
6 5 (7.69%) Bicep
6 5 (7.69%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.62%) C#
8 1 (1.54%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) Groovy
8 1 (1.54%) Java
8 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.54%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) DV Cleared
5 5 (7.69%) MCSE
6 4 (6.15%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.62%) CISSP
7 3 (4.62%) Degree
8 2 (3.08%) CISM
9 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.54%) GIAC
9 1 (1.54%) HND
9 1 (1.54%) SSCP
9 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) GDPR
1 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.62%) NIST
2 2 (3.08%) GxP
2 2 (3.08%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.08%) NCSC
2 2 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.08%) SLA
3 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 45 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 9 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.69%) NFS
4 4 (6.15%) Docker
4 4 (6.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.08%) KVM
6 1 (1.54%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 8 (12.31%) Puppet
3 7 (10.77%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (10.77%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
4 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.15%) Ansible
5 4 (6.15%) CA Single Sign-On
5 4 (6.15%) Grafana
5 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.15%) systemd
6 1 (1.54%) FreeIPA
6 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.54%) Nagios
6 1 (1.54%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (1.54%) Packer
6 1 (1.54%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (1.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (49.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Red Hat
2 9 (13.85%) VMware
3 8 (12.31%) NetApp
4 7 (10.77%) Cisco
5 5 (7.69%) BeyondTrust
5 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
6 4 (6.15%) CyberArk
6 4 (6.15%) Greenplum
6 4 (6.15%) Sybase
7 3 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (4.62%) Okta
8 2 (3.08%) Confluent
8 2 (3.08%) Oracle
8 2 (3.08%) Splunk
9 1 (1.54%) Coverity
9 1 (1.54%) Google
9 1 (1.54%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (1.54%) Progress
9 1 (1.54%) Salesforce