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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 522 516
Rank change year-on-year -93 -6 +72
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 51 30 56
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.090% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.02% 0.76% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 36
10th Percentile £428 £355 £430
25th Percentile £453 £419 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £558
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -5.38% -14.23%
75th Percentile £634 £613 £678
90th Percentile £725 £691 £913
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £545 £674
% change year-on-year -6.88% -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 5,006 3,963 4,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.38% 11.95% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,963 2,424 2,875
10th Percentile £250 £240 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 198 316
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £19.79
Median hourly rate £26.07 £46.88 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.38% -5.30% -4.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.30 £74.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.91% -18.18% -4.21%

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 10 August 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 11 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 10 August 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 -93 42 £525 +5.00% 16
London -65 27 £525 +10.53% 10
UK excluding London -100 17 £508 -6.88% 7
Work from Home -37 15 £520 -1.89% 9
North of England -61 10 £565 +48.68% 1
Yorkshire -41 7 £540 +15.14%
North West -42 3 £670 +119.67% 1
South East -69 3 £350 -53.33% 3
Wales - 2 £500 -
South West -45 1 - - 3
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 6 (11.76%) JBoss
2 3 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) SAS
3 1 (1.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) Entra ID
2 20 (39.22%) Azure
3 9 (17.65%) AWS
4 5 (9.80%) SaaS
5 4 (7.84%) GCP
5 4 (7.84%) IaaS
5 4 (7.84%) PaaS
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.96%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) DNS
2 12 (23.53%) Firewall
3 8 (15.69%) DHCP
3 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
4 7 (13.73%) SAN
5 5 (9.80%) NAS
6 4 (7.84%) SSL
7 3 (5.88%) HTTP
7 3 (5.88%) NGFW
8 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.96%) SSH
8 1 (1.96%) VPN
8 1 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.80%) Big Data
2 5 (9.80%) Hadoop
3 4 (7.84%) Db2
4 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.92%) SQLite
6 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 20 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Finance
4 5 (9.80%) Banking
5 4 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (19.61%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (11.76%) Architect
3 5 (9.80%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Active Directory Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Administrator
4 4 (7.84%) Incident Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Lead
4 4 (7.84%) Major Incident Manager
4 4 (7.84%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Production Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Support Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (49.02%) LDAP
2 16 (31.37%) SAML
3 15 (29.41%) OAuth
4 14 (27.45%) OpenID
5 5 (9.80%) OAuth2
6 4 (7.84%) .NET
6 4 (7.84%) Middleware
7 2 (3.92%) FIDO
7 2 (3.92%) Mojolicious
7 2 (3.92%) Moose
7 2 (3.92%) SailPoint
7 2 (3.92%) SPNEGO
7 2 (3.92%) WebAuthn
8 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.96%) Keycloak
8 1 (1.96%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) Onboarding
2 7 (13.73%) PKI
3 6 (11.76%) Clustering
4 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
4 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (7.84%) Mainframe
5 4 (7.84%) Replication
6 3 (5.88%) CMDB
6 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (5.88%) Operational Technology
6 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
7 2 (3.92%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.92%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (3.92%) SCADA
7 2 (3.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.96%) iSeries
8 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (35.29%) Linux
2 15 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (29.41%) Windows
3 7 (13.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.84%) Unix
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (3.92%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.96%) CentOS
7 1 (1.96%) Rocky
7 1 (1.96%) SUSE
7 1 (1.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) ITIL
2 12 (23.53%) Runbook
3 10 (19.61%) Identity Management
4 9 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (15.69%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (15.69%) Problem Management
5 8 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (13.73%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (13.73%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (13.73%) Incident Response
6 7 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (13.73%) Privileged Access Management
6 7 (13.73%) RBAC
6 7 (13.73%) Security Hardening
6 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (11.76%) BCP
7 6 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.69%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) Python
4 5 (9.80%) T-SQL
5 4 (7.84%) Bash
6 3 (5.88%) Bicep
6 3 (5.88%) C#
7 2 (3.92%) Korn
7 2 (3.92%) Perl
8 1 (1.96%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (7.84%) Degree
5 3 (5.88%) MCSE
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.96%) CISSP
7 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.96%) GIAC
7 1 (1.96%) HND
7 1 (1.96%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (11.76%) NIST
2 2 (3.92%) GxP
3 1 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) NCSC
3 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (11.76%) NFS
4 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.92%) KVM
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (1.96%) Docker
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 8 (15.69%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (11.76%) Ansible
2 6 (11.76%) Puppet
2 6 (11.76%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (9.80%) Terraform
4 4 (7.84%) CA Single Sign-On
4 4 (7.84%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.92%) systemd
7 1 (1.96%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (1.96%) Grafana
7 1 (1.96%) Nagios
7 1 (1.96%) Network Intrusion Detection System
7 1 (1.96%) Packer
7 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.96%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.61%) Red Hat
3 8 (15.69%) VMware
4 6 (11.76%) Cisco
5 5 (9.80%) ServiceNow
6 4 (7.84%) Greenplum
6 4 (7.84%) Oracle
6 4 (7.84%) Sybase
7 3 (5.88%) Forcepoint
8 2 (3.92%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (3.92%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (3.92%) CyberArk
8 2 (3.92%) NetApp
8 2 (3.92%) Okta
9 1 (1.96%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.96%) OneTrust
9 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.96%) Progress
9 1 (1.96%) Splunk