Keycloak Contract Job Trends

Keycloak
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Keycloak skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 520 568
Rank change year-on-year -101 +48 +94
Contract jobs citing Keycloak 41 33 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.10% 0.051%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.45% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 17
10th Percentile £418 £418 £403
25th Percentile £478 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +16.11% -19.64%
75th Percentile £716 £588 £531
90th Percentile £735 £638 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £520 £481
% change year-on-year +10.58% +8.05% -18.25%

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 10,322 7,330 9,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 22.59% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,766 4,948 6,332
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £761 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 159 280
10th Percentile £30.00 £29.21 £22.73
25th Percentile £50.00 £38.52 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +0.67% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.20 £74.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.20% -6.72%

Keycloak
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Keycloak relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Keycloak job vacancy trend in the UK

Keycloak
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Keycloak.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Keycloak

Keycloak
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Keycloak over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Keycloak in the UK

Keycloak
Top 10 Contract Job 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 11 July 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 -91 36 £563 +7.66% 9
London -40 18 £550 +15.79% 7
UK excluding London -99 18 £575 +10.58% 3
Work from Home -60 11 £675 +41.66% 1
South East -63 7 £690 +51.15% 2
South West -31 6 £550 - 1
North of England -72 4 £425 -24.44%
North East -32 3 £425 -24.44%
East of England -25 1 £575 -
Yorkshire - 1 £693 -

Keycloak
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 1 (2.44%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (68.29%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) Entra ID
3 11 (26.83%) Azure
4 8 (19.51%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (19.51%) GCP
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub
5 7 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (17.07%) Serverless
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) MQTT
1 4 (9.76%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) HTTP
2 1 (2.44%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (39.02%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (24.39%) MongoDB
3 7 (17.07%) Redis
4 5 (12.20%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (12.20%) MySQL
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (58.54%) GitLab
2 12 (29.27%) Git
3 7 (17.07%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.44%) git-flow
5 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 8 (19.51%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 3 (7.32%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Active Directory Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Backend Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Lead
7 1 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Product Owner
7 1 (2.44%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) Kafka
2 7 (17.07%) RESTful
3 5 (12.20%) OpenID
4 4 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (9.76%) gRPC
4 4 (9.76%) OAuth
4 4 (9.76%) OAuth2
4 4 (9.76%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (7.32%) JWT
5 3 (7.32%) SAML
5 3 (7.32%) Spring
5 3 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (4.88%) JSON
6 2 (4.88%) LDAP
6 2 (4.88%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (4.88%) React
6 2 (4.88%) Swagger
7 1 (2.44%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
3 4 (9.76%) PKI
4 3 (7.32%) Replication
5 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.44%) NHS
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (48.78%) Linux
2 13 (31.71%) Windows
3 5 (12.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (78.05%) CI/CD
2 29 (70.73%) DevOps
3 19 (46.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
5 15 (36.59%) Agile
6 11 (26.83%) High Availability
6 11 (26.83%) Observability
7 10 (24.39%) Microservices
7 10 (24.39%) Secrets Management
8 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (19.51%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (17.07%) Identity Management
9 7 (17.07%) Privileged Access Management
10 6 (14.63%) DevSecOps
10 6 (14.63%) Migration
10 6 (14.63%) Scrum
11 5 (12.20%) AI
11 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (12.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) Python
2 5 (12.20%) Shell Script
3 4 (9.76%) Bash
3 4 (9.76%) Groovy
3 4 (9.76%) Rust
4 3 (7.32%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.88%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) Bicep
6 1 (2.44%) C
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (80.49%) Security Cleared
2 28 (68.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.51%) DV Cleared
4 5 (12.20%) Degree
5 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) NCSC
2 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (46.34%) Docker
2 8 (19.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (65.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (63.41%) Terraform
3 15 (36.59%) Grafana
3 15 (36.59%) Prometheus
4 10 (24.39%) Ansible
5 7 (17.07%) Puppet
6 6 (14.63%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (12.20%) Rancher
7 5 (12.20%) VxRail
8 4 (9.76%) Karpenter
8 4 (9.76%) Podman
9 3 (7.32%) Argo
10 2 (4.88%) Cilium
11 1 (2.44%) FreeIPA
11 1 (2.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
1 7 (17.07%) VMware
2 5 (12.20%) BeyondTrust
2 5 (12.20%) Dell
2 5 (12.20%) Thales
3 4 (9.76%) NVIDIA
3 4 (9.76%) Okta
3 4 (9.76%) Tenable
4 3 (7.32%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.32%) Splunk
5 2 (4.88%) ForgeRock
5 2 (4.88%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.44%) Ping Identity