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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 504 582
Rank change year-on-year -11 +78 +177
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 55 54 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 1.22% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 33 29
10th Percentile £410 - £416
25th Percentile £427 £430 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £630 £663
Median % change year-on-year -24.60% -4.91% +15.22%
75th Percentile £538 £763 £725
90th Percentile £675 £909 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £466 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -30.93% +12.50% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £53.40 - £52.38
25th Percentile £54.75 - £54.06
Median hourly rate £59.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £62.75 - £55.35
90th Percentile £63.80 - £55.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.00 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +46.67%

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 3,941 4,414 6,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.40% 12.09% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,557 2,539 4,039
10th Percentile £213 £223 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 162 340
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.08 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.87 £26.25 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.50 £48.03 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.17% -12.67% +34.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -19.05% -7.06% +25.53%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 -9 45 £471 -28.74% 15
UK excluding London -5 39 £466 -30.93% 8
North of England -24 19 £453 -37.52% 2
Work from Home -3 15 £519 -17.00% 15
London -15 11 £525 -17.97% 8
North West - 10 £448 -
Yorkshire -20 9 £537 -25.93% 2
South East -2 6 £467 -30.78% 3
West Midlands -17 5 - -
Midlands -20 5 - -
Scotland - 5 £675 -
South West +9 3 £425 -36.90% 2
East of England - 1 £475 - 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 10 (18.18%) Apache
1 10 (18.18%) IIS
1 10 (18.18%) iPlanet
1 10 (18.18%) JBoss
1 10 (18.18%) WebSphere
1 10 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (9.09%) Confluence
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.45%) SAS
3 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.18%) AWS
2 13 (23.64%) Azure
3 10 (18.18%) OpenShift
4 9 (16.36%) Entra ID
5 5 (9.09%) GitHub
6 4 (7.27%) Datadog
6 4 (7.27%) GCP
7 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.45%) SaaS
7 3 (5.45%) Serverless
7 3 (5.45%) ShareGate
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.64%) Route 53
9 1 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.82%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) DNS
1 7 (12.73%) Firewall
2 6 (10.91%) SSH
3 3 (5.45%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.45%) VPN
4 2 (3.64%) DHCP
4 2 (3.64%) HTTP
4 2 (3.64%) Network Security
4 2 (3.64%) SSL
4 2 (3.64%) X.500
5 1 (1.82%) BGP
5 1 (1.82%) Internet
5 1 (1.82%) IPsec
5 1 (1.82%) SMTP
5 1 (1.82%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.64%) Oracle Database
2 10 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.09%) NewSQL
3 5 (9.09%) OLTP
4 4 (7.27%) DynamoDB
4 4 (7.27%) HBase
4 4 (7.27%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.45%) CockroachDB
5 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.45%) Metadata
5 3 (5.45%) Power BI
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.82%) Big Data
6 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (32.73%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.45%) Git
3 12 (21.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
4 10 (18.18%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (10.91%) Cucumber
6 5 (9.09%) JIRA
7 4 (7.27%) Artifactory
7 4 (7.27%) GitLab
7 4 (7.27%) Gradle
7 4 (7.27%) JUnit
8 2 (3.64%) Eclipse
8 2 (3.64%) IntelliJ
8 2 (3.64%) Maven
9 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (34.55%) Finance
2 14 (25.45%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (10.91%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Senior
3 7 (12.73%) Consultant
4 6 (10.91%) Developer
4 6 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Database Engineer
5 5 (9.09%) Management Consultant
6 4 (7.27%) Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) AWS Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Design Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Security Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (63.64%) OAuth
1 35 (63.64%) SAML
2 29 (52.73%) LDAP
3 23 (41.82%) OpenID
4 6 (10.91%) Spring
4 6 (10.91%) Spring Boot
5 5 (9.09%) Kafka
6 4 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (7.27%) SailPoint
7 3 (5.45%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.45%) RESTful
8 2 (3.64%) AWT
8 2 (3.64%) JavaFX
8 2 (3.64%) JPA
8 2 (3.64%) Swing
8 2 (3.64%) Web Services
9 1 (1.82%) Middleware
9 1 (1.82%) TIBCO EMS
9 1 (1.82%) WinForms
9 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.73%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.91%) PKI
3 5 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (9.09%) Replication
4 4 (7.27%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.82%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 25 (45.45%) Linux
2 24 (43.64%) Windows
3 14 (25.45%) Windows Server
4 9 (16.36%) Unix
5 5 (9.09%) AIX
5 5 (9.09%) Solaris
6 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
2 18 (32.73%) DevOps
3 16 (29.09%) CI/CD
4 13 (23.64%) RBAC
5 12 (21.82%) Privileged Access Management
6 11 (20.00%) Agile
7 8 (14.55%) Containerisation
7 8 (14.55%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (14.55%) Decision-Making
7 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
8 7 (12.73%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (12.73%) Architecture Governance
8 7 (12.73%) Secrets Management
9 6 (10.91%) Cryptography
9 6 (10.91%) Incident Response
9 6 (10.91%) Migration
9 6 (10.91%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.91%) Security Operations
9 6 (10.91%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
9 6 (10.91%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) Python
2 12 (21.82%) PowerShell
3 10 (18.18%) Groovy
4 9 (16.36%) Shell Script
5 7 (12.73%) Java
6 5 (9.09%) ANSI SQL
6 5 (9.09%) Bash
6 5 (9.09%) SQL
7 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) AWS Certification
1 6 (10.91%) CISSP
2 5 (9.09%) CISM
2 5 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
3 4 (7.27%) OCP
3 4 (7.27%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (7.27%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.45%) PhD
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (10.91%) NIST
3 5 (9.09%) SOC 2
4 4 (7.27%) GDPR
5 3 (5.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 30 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (21.82%) Docker
3 8 (14.55%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 16 (29.09%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (18.18%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (18.18%) CA Wily
3 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
3 9 (16.36%) Progress Chef
4 8 (14.55%) Tivoli
5 7 (12.73%) Ansible
5 7 (12.73%) Terraform
6 4 (7.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (7.27%) Grafana
6 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (5.45%) SCCM
8 1 (1.82%) Nagios
8 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 13 (23.64%) Oracle
3 11 (20.00%) Splunk
4 10 (18.18%) AppDynamics
4 10 (18.18%) Broadcom
4 10 (18.18%) CyberArk
4 10 (18.18%) IBM
5 5 (9.09%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (5.45%) BiZZdesign
6 3 (5.45%) Okta
7 1 (1.82%) Citrix
7 1 (1.82%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.82%) Databricks
7 1 (1.82%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.82%) Google
7 1 (1.82%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.82%) Solace
7 1 (1.82%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.82%) VMware