Kerberos Contracts

Kerberos
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Kerberos skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kerberos over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 539 618
Rank change year-on-year +23 +79 +117
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 32 54 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.13% 0.099%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.79% 1.01% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 40
10th Percentile £425 £403 £396
25th Percentile £469 £550 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £565 £588
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -3.83% +2.17%
75th Percentile £600 £674 £719
90th Percentile £688 £910 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £672 £681
% change year-on-year -18.90% -1.36% +32.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
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 4,035 5,363 7,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.33% 12.54% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 3,162 4,650
10th Percentile £233 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £472 £490 £463
% change year-on-year -3.67% +5.95% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 425 370
10th Percentile £14.69 £13.64 £10.63
25th Percentile £20.93 £17.69 £11.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £43.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +49.57% -0.86%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.08 £73.55 £75.67
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.68% +5.56% +95.65%

Kerberos
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kerberos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kerberos.

Daily rate trend for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kerberos over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kerberos.

Hourly rate trend for Kerberos in the UK

Kerberos
Top 11 Contract 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 13 July 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 +21 26 £513 -9.29% 6
UK excluding London +24 21 £545 -18.90% 4
Work from Home +37 12 £530 -15.20% 3
London +17 10 £500 -9.09% 3
North of England +17 9 £485 -
Yorkshire - 7 £469 -
South West +39 5 £535 -20.56% 2
Scotland -2 5 £675 -
North West +9 2 £500 -
South East +41 1 £750 +11.36% 1
East of England +17 1 £675 +80.00% 1

Kerberos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (15.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (34.38%) AWS
1 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
2 7 (21.88%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) Lucidchart
4 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Sentry
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) DNS
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 4 (12.50%) DHCP
4 2 (6.25%) HTTP
5 1 (3.13%) NAS
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) VLAN
5 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (15.63%) NewSQL
2 5 (15.63%) OLTP
3 3 (9.38%) CockroachDB
4 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) DocumentDB
5 1 (3.13%) Impala
5 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.25%) Eclipse
4 2 (6.25%) IntelliJ
4 2 (6.25%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Front Office
4 2 (6.25%) International Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Database Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) LDAP Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) UI Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) SAML
2 13 (40.63%) OAuth
2 13 (40.63%) OpenID
3 11 (34.38%) LDAP
4 4 (12.50%) .NET
5 3 (9.38%) Web Services
6 2 (6.25%) AWT
6 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.25%) JavaFX
6 2 (6.25%) JPA
6 2 (6.25%) JWT
6 2 (6.25%) Middleware
6 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
6 2 (6.25%) RESTful
6 2 (6.25%) SailPoint
6 2 (6.25%) Spring
6 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.25%) Swing
7 1 (3.13%) Akka
7 1 (3.13%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Replication
2 6 (18.75%) PKI
3 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.25%) Client/Server
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.13%) Clustering
5 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.25%) Unix
4 2 (6.25%) VMS
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) DevOps
2 11 (34.38%) Agile
2 11 (34.38%) RBAC
3 9 (28.13%) Containerisation
3 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (28.13%) Migration
4 7 (21.88%) High Availability
4 7 (21.88%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (21.88%) Identity Management
5 6 (18.75%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Business Analysis
7 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
7 3 (9.38%) Data Analysis
7 3 (9.38%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) Bash
2 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) ANSI SQL
4 4 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (3.13%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) HDFS
3 1 (3.13%) NFS
3 1 (3.13%) Samba
3 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Kubernetes
2 9 (28.13%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (25.00%) Ansible
3 8 (25.00%) Terraform
4 3 (9.38%) ZABBIX
5 2 (6.25%) Apache Ranger
5 2 (6.25%) Grafana
5 2 (6.25%) Puppet
6 1 (3.13%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (3.13%) Graylog
6 1 (3.13%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (3.13%) Nagios
6 1 (3.13%) Netcool
6 1 (3.13%) SELinux
6 1 (3.13%) Tivoli
6 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.25%) Cloudera
3 2 (6.25%) ForgeRock
3 2 (6.25%) Okta
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) EMC
4 1 (3.13%) IBM
4 1 (3.13%) Isilon
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Qualys
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Serena
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) Sybase
4 1 (3.13%) VMware