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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 525 489 560
Rank change year-on-year -36 +71 +175
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 57 54 48
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.44% 1.22% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 22
10th Percentile £401 £430 £431
25th Percentile £427 £525 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% -16.98% +17.78%
75th Percentile £580 £694 £750
90th Percentile £675 £775 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £462 £548 £713
% change year-on-year -15.78% -23.09% +39.02%
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 3,946 4,427 6,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 12.40% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,569 2,561 3,890
10th Percentile £206 £220 £211
25th Percentile £356 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £613
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 186 165 349
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.95 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.04 £22.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £33.39 £41.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -25.45% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.03 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.51% -14.98% +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 10 December 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 10 December 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 -39 48 £470 -14.64% 9
UK excluding London -12 40 £462 -15.78% 7
North of England -20 21 £461 -36.48% 1
Work from Home -7 13 £500 -19.03% 3
Yorkshire -30 11 £531 -26.76% 1
London -28 10 £525 -11.02% 3
North West - 10 £448 -
South East -11 6 £462 -31.63% 4
Midlands - 6 £639 - 2
West Midlands - 6 £639 - 2
South West -18 3 £425 -22.45% 1
Scotland - 3 £700 -
East of England - 1 £475 -

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 (19.30%) Apache
2 10 (17.54%) IIS
2 10 (17.54%) iPlanet
2 10 (17.54%) JBoss
2 10 (17.54%) WebSphere
2 10 (17.54%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (8.77%) Confluence
4 4 (7.02%) SAS
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (38.60%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 12 (21.05%) Entra ID
4 8 (14.04%) OpenShift
5 7 (12.28%) GitHub
6 5 (8.77%) Datadog
6 5 (8.77%) GCP
7 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (5.26%) Route 53
8 3 (5.26%) SaaS
8 3 (5.26%) Serverless
8 3 (5.26%) ShareGate
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) DNS
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
1 7 (12.28%) SSH
2 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.02%) VPN
3 3 (5.26%) DHCP
4 2 (3.51%) HTTP
4 2 (3.51%) Network Security
4 2 (3.51%) SSL
4 2 (3.51%) X.500
5 1 (1.75%) BGP
5 1 (1.75%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.75%) Internet
5 1 (1.75%) IPsec
5 1 (1.75%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.75%) LAN
5 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.75%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (1.75%) VLAN
5 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Oracle Database
2 11 (19.30%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) DynamoDB
3 5 (8.77%) HBase
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.26%) Metadata
5 3 (5.26%) NewSQL
5 3 (5.26%) OLTP
5 3 (5.26%) Power BI
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.51%) Big Data
6 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.75%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.75%) MySQL
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (21.05%) Git
4 10 (17.54%) Bitbucket Server
4 10 (17.54%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (8.77%) Artifactory
5 5 (8.77%) Cucumber
5 5 (8.77%) GitLab
5 5 (8.77%) Gradle
5 5 (8.77%) JIRA
5 5 (8.77%) JUnit
6 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 18 (31.58%) Finance
2 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (19.30%) Architect
2 10 (17.54%) Consultant
2 10 (17.54%) Senior
3 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Management Consultant
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) AWS Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Design Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Database Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Security Consultant
6 3 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (57.89%) OAuth
1 33 (57.89%) SAML
2 32 (56.14%) LDAP
3 21 (36.84%) OpenID
4 6 (10.53%) Kafka
5 5 (8.77%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (8.77%) Spring
5 5 (8.77%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.51%) JSON
6 2 (3.51%) SailPoint
6 2 (3.51%) YAML
7 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.75%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.75%) libvirt
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.75%) Middleware
7 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.75%) RESTful
7 1 (1.75%) TIBCO EMS
7 1 (1.75%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.77%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.77%) PKI
2 5 (8.77%) Replication
3 4 (7.02%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 25 (43.86%) Linux
1 25 (43.86%) Windows
2 14 (24.56%) Windows Server
3 10 (17.54%) Unix
4 5 (8.77%) AIX
4 5 (8.77%) Solaris
5 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
1 18 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
2 16 (28.07%) DevOps
3 15 (26.32%) Privileged Access Management
4 11 (19.30%) RBAC
5 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
6 9 (15.79%) Agile
6 9 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (14.04%) Containerisation
7 8 (14.04%) Decision-Making
7 8 (14.04%) Identity Management
7 8 (14.04%) Migration
8 7 (12.28%) Architecture Governance
8 7 (12.28%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.28%) Secrets Management
9 6 (10.53%) Cryptography
9 6 (10.53%) Incident Response
9 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
9 6 (10.53%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.30%) Python
2 10 (17.54%) Groovy
2 10 (17.54%) PowerShell
3 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
4 6 (10.53%) Java
5 4 (7.02%) Bash
5 4 (7.02%) SQL
6 3 (5.26%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.75%) Perl
7 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 6 (10.53%) CISSP
2 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) CISM
3 5 (8.77%) OCP
3 5 (8.77%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (8.77%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.26%) Degree
5 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.26%) PhD
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.75%) GSEC
6 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.02%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) NIST
3 3 (5.26%) NCSC
3 3 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (57.89%) Active Directory
2 11 (19.30%) Docker
3 8 (14.04%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (1.75%) Ceph
5 1 (1.75%) HDFS
5 1 (1.75%) iptables
5 1 (1.75%) KVM
5 1 (1.75%) Lustre
5 1 (1.75%) NFS
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.75%) Samba
5 1 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 14 (24.56%) Single Sign-On
2 10 (17.54%) CA Single Sign-On
2 10 (17.54%) CA Wily
3 9 (15.79%) Progress Chef
4 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
4 8 (14.04%) Tivoli
5 7 (12.28%) Ansible
5 7 (12.28%) Terraform
6 6 (10.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (8.77%) Grafana
8 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (5.26%) SCCM
10 1 (1.75%) Data Guard
10 1 (1.75%) HAProxy
10 1 (1.75%) Nagios
10 1 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (1.75%) Puppet
10 1 (1.75%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (24.56%) Oracle
3 11 (19.30%) Splunk
4 10 (17.54%) AppDynamics
4 10 (17.54%) Broadcom
4 10 (17.54%) IBM
5 8 (14.04%) CyberArk
6 5 (8.77%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (5.26%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (3.51%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.75%) Citrix
9 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
9 1 (1.75%) Google
9 1 (1.75%) Okta
9 1 (1.75%) SaltStack
9 1 (1.75%) Solace
9 1 (1.75%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.75%) VMware