Kerberos Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Kerberos
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 292 331 440
Rank change year-on-year +39 +109 +91
Contract jobs citing Kerberos 12 14 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.091% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.15% 0.87% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 32
10th Percentile £444 - £513
25th Percentile £491 £613 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -5.66% +20.45%
75th Percentile £545 £638 £731
90th Percentile £546 - £804
UK median daily rate £547 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -3.19% -5.83% +4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Kerberos
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kerberos as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kerberos trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kerberos
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kerberos.

Kerberos daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kerberos
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kerberos.

Kerberos hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Kerberos
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) IaaS
2 4 (33.33%) PaaS
2 4 (33.33%) SaaS
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
3 3 (25.00%) Route 53
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) Lucidchart
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
5 1 (8.33%) Rubrik
5 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) IPsec
2 3 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (8.33%) HTTP
4 1 (8.33%) NAS
4 1 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) GitLab
1 3 (25.00%) Maven
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) LDAP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) SAML
2 4 (33.33%) OAuth
2 4 (33.33%) OpenID
3 3 (25.00%) .NET
3 3 (25.00%) LDAP
3 3 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (25.00%) Web Services
3 3 (25.00%) XACML
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) JWT
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Replication
2 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (16.67%) PKI
4 1 (8.33%) Clustering
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Solaris
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (25.00%) BPEL
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Microservices
2 3 (25.00%) RBAC
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Software Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (25.00%) Python
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (8.33%) CISSP
3 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (8.33%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (8.33%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) RACF
3 1 (8.33%) NFS
3 1 (8.33%) Samba
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (25.00%) Packer
5 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
6 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (8.33%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (8.33%) Grafana
6 1 (8.33%) Nagios
6 1 (8.33%) Netcool
6 1 (8.33%) Puppet
6 1 (8.33%) SELinux
6 1 (8.33%) Tivoli
6 1 (8.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (8.33%) EMC
2 1 (8.33%) ForgeRock
2 1 (8.33%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Isilon
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Qualys
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) Serena
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Sybase
2 1 (8.33%) VMware