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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 515 515
Rank change year-on-year -100 0 +101
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 52 31 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.098% 0.095% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.05% 0.78% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 32
10th Percentile £445 £423 £430
25th Percentile £463 £467 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £558
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -5.38% -13.57%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £678
90th Percentile £702 £691 £889
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £545 £674
% change year-on-year -3.67% -19.08% -2.04%
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 4,975 3,951 4,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 12.06% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,982 2,418 2,984
10th Percentile £250 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
75th Percentile £588 £589 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 194 348
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £25.15 £17.95
Median hourly rate £26.44 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.76% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.70 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £44.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -39.41% -12.00% -13.04%

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 July 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 July 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 -95 43 £525 +5.00% 6
London -50 24 £525 +5.00% 4
UK excluding London -94 22 £525 -3.67% 4
Work from Home -54 15 £523 -1.42% 4
North of England -68 14 £575 +18.68% 1
Yorkshire -38 10 £565 +20.47%
North West -45 4 £640 +28.00% 1
South East -66 4 £425 -43.33% 3
Wales - 2 £500 -
South West -39 1 - -
North East - 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 3 (5.77%) Confluence
1 3 (5.77%) JBoss
1 3 (5.77%) SAS
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (48.08%) Azure
2 24 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 12 (23.08%) AWS
4 8 (15.38%) SaaS
5 7 (13.46%) IaaS
5 7 (13.46%) PaaS
6 4 (7.69%) GCP
7 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
7 3 (5.77%) Serverless
8 2 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.69%) DNS
2 13 (25.00%) Firewall
3 9 (17.31%) DHCP
4 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
5 7 (13.46%) SAN
5 7 (13.46%) SSL
6 5 (9.62%) NAS
7 3 (5.77%) HTTP
7 3 (5.77%) IPsec
8 2 (3.85%) NGFW
9 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (1.92%) SSH
9 1 (1.92%) VPN
9 1 (1.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.69%) Db2
3 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.77%) Oracle Database
3 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.85%) Big Data
4 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 2 (3.85%) SQLite
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 18 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Architect
2 7 (13.46%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
3 4 (7.69%) Incident Manager
3 4 (7.69%) Lead
3 4 (7.69%) Major Incident Manager
3 4 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Production Manager
4 3 (5.77%) Senior Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Senior Technical Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Support Manager
4 3 (5.77%) Technical Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Web Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (51.92%) LDAP
2 19 (36.54%) SAML
3 17 (32.69%) OAuth
4 16 (30.77%) OpenID
5 7 (13.46%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.69%) Middleware
7 3 (5.77%) .NET
7 3 (5.77%) Web Services
7 3 (5.77%) XACML
8 2 (3.85%) FIDO
8 2 (3.85%) Mojolicious
8 2 (3.85%) Moose
8 2 (3.85%) SailPoint
8 2 (3.85%) SPNEGO
8 2 (3.85%) WebAuthn
9 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (1.92%) Keycloak
9 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Onboarding
2 7 (13.46%) PKI
3 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.62%) Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.69%) Mainframe
5 3 (5.77%) Clustering
5 3 (5.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (5.77%) Operational Technology
5 3 (5.77%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Biopharmaceutical
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.85%) CMDB
6 2 (3.85%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.85%) SCADA
6 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.92%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Linux
1 15 (28.85%) Windows
2 12 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (13.46%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.69%) Unix
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.92%) CentOS
7 1 (1.92%) Rocky
7 1 (1.92%) SUSE
7 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) ITIL
2 11 (21.15%) Runbook
3 10 (19.23%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (17.31%) Identity Management
4 9 (17.31%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (15.38%) Problem Management
5 8 (15.38%) Roadmaps
5 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (13.46%) DevOps
6 7 (13.46%) Incident Response
6 7 (13.46%) Privileged Access Management
6 7 (13.46%) Security Hardening
6 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (11.54%) Agile
7 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.54%) Migration
7 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.54%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) PowerShell
2 10 (19.23%) SQL
3 7 (13.46%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.77%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) Bicep
6 2 (3.85%) Korn
6 2 (3.85%) Perl
7 1 (1.92%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Degree
3 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) MCSE
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) CISSP
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) GIAC
5 1 (1.92%) HND
5 1 (1.92%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (11.54%) NIST
2 2 (3.85%) GxP
3 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
3 1 (1.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (67.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.54%) NFS
3 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.77%) RACF
5 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.85%) KVM
6 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (1.92%) Docker
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (17.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (11.54%) Ansible
4 4 (7.69%) CA Single Sign-On
4 4 (7.69%) Terraform
5 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.77%) Puppet
5 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.85%) systemd
7 1 (1.92%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.92%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.92%) FreeIPA
7 1 (1.92%) Grafana
7 1 (1.92%) Nagios
7 1 (1.92%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (1.92%) Packer
7 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.92%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.62%) VMware
4 4 (7.69%) Greenplum
4 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 4 (7.69%) Sybase
5 3 (5.77%) Cisco
5 3 (5.77%) Forcepoint
6 2 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (3.85%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (3.85%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.85%) NetApp
6 2 (3.85%) Okta
7 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.92%) OneTrust
7 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.92%) Progress
7 1 (1.92%) Splunk