Keycloak Contracts

Keycloak
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Keycloak skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Keycloak over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 560 690
Rank change year-on-year +83 +130 +136
Contract jobs citing Keycloak 43 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.051% 0.047%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 23
10th Percentile £426 £413 £525
25th Percentile £500 £425 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £481 £600
Median % change year-on-year +19.48% -19.79% -
75th Percentile £738 £536 -
90th Percentile £750 £600 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +26.83% -6.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Keycloak falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

Keycloak
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Keycloak in the UK

Keycloak
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Keycloak in the UK

Keycloak
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Keycloak over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Keycloak in the UK

Keycloak
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Keycloak within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +78 32 £575 +4.55% 9
Work from Home +57 21 £551 +29.65% 9
UK excluding London +67 18 £650 +26.83% 8
London +49 14 £514 - 4
North of England +26 11 £725 +20.83%
Yorkshire +11 6 £725 +11.54%
South East +47 4 £548 +21.67% 2
North West - 3 £410 -
North East +1 2 £750 +36.36%
South West +46 1 £500 -27.27% 3
Midlands - 1 £650 -
West Midlands - 1 £650 -
East of England - 1 - - 1

Keycloak
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 15 (34.88%) nginx
2 12 (27.91%) Traefik
3 9 (20.93%) Apache
3 9 (20.93%) Camunda
4 4 (9.30%) Alfresco
4 4 (9.30%) Confluence
5 3 (6.98%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (2.33%) Gunicorn
6 1 (2.33%) JBoss
6 1 (2.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 31 (72.09%) AWS
2 16 (37.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 16 (37.21%) Amazon ECS
2 16 (37.21%) AWS Fargate
3 14 (32.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (32.56%) Entra ID
3 14 (32.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (16.28%) Azure
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.30%) GitHub
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.65%) PaaS
7 2 (4.65%) SaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.33%) MinIO
8 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) DNS
1 14 (32.56%) TCP/IP
2 5 (11.63%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (51.16%) MongoDB
2 11 (25.58%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (20.93%) Redis
4 8 (18.60%) MySQL
5 5 (11.63%) GIS
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (6.98%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.65%) Flink
7 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (46.51%) Jenkins
2 16 (37.21%) GitLab
3 6 (13.95%) JIRA
4 5 (11.63%) JUnit
5 3 (6.98%) ESLint
5 3 (6.98%) Mocha
5 3 (6.98%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.65%) Gradle
6 2 (4.65%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.33%) Git
7 1 (2.33%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.33%) Maven
7 1 (2.33%) Mockito
7 1 (2.33%) Poetry
General
1 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.63%) Military
3 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Senior
2 18 (41.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (39.53%) Senior DevOps
4 13 (30.23%) Developer
4 13 (30.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (4.65%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.33%) Java Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Python Developer
9 1 (2.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (60.47%) Kafka
2 14 (32.56%) cloud-init
3 10 (23.26%) HTML
4 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
5 8 (18.60%) AngularJS
5 8 (18.60%) Apache NiFi
6 7 (16.28%) Spring
7 6 (13.95%) LDAP
7 6 (13.95%) OAuth
7 6 (13.95%) OpenID
7 6 (13.95%) SAML
7 6 (13.95%) XML
8 5 (11.63%) OAuth2
9 4 (9.30%) Node.js
10 3 (6.98%) CSS
10 3 (6.98%) Express.js
10 3 (6.98%) Jest
11 2 (4.65%) Middleware
11 2 (4.65%) OpenJDK
11 2 (4.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (48.84%) PKI
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (51.16%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) CentOS
2 14 (32.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) DevOps
2 23 (53.49%) CI/CD
3 22 (51.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (44.19%) Secrets Management
5 17 (39.53%) Observability
6 15 (34.88%) Identity Management
7 14 (32.56%) Cloud Security
7 14 (32.56%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (32.56%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 14 (32.56%) Static Application Security Testing
8 13 (30.23%) Agile
9 12 (27.91%) Microservices
9 12 (27.91%) Mobile Device Management
10 10 (23.26%) GitOps
11 9 (20.93%) Containerisation
12 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
12 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (16.28%) Storage Management
13 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (13.95%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) Python
2 15 (34.88%) Bash
3 14 (32.56%) Go
4 11 (25.58%) Java
5 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.65%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
7 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (79.07%) Security Cleared
2 31 (72.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (37.21%) AWS Certification
4 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Degree
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (37.21%) NCSC
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (37.21%) Docker
2 7 (16.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (9.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (86.05%) Kubernetes
2 28 (65.12%) Terraform
3 18 (41.86%) Istio
4 16 (37.21%) Grafana
4 16 (37.21%) Prometheus
5 15 (34.88%) Packer
5 15 (34.88%) Rancher
6 14 (32.56%) Consul
6 14 (32.56%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (32.56%) linkerd
6 14 (32.56%) ZABBIX
7 13 (30.23%) HAProxy
8 7 (16.28%) Ansible
9 6 (13.95%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (4.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (2.33%) Argo
11 1 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
11 1 (2.33%) Kibana
11 1 (2.33%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Splunk
2 14 (32.56%) Okta
3 12 (27.91%) Apple
3 12 (27.91%) ESET
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow