Ceph Contract Job Trends in England

Ceph
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Ceph skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 525 589
Rank change year-on-year +15 +64 +130
Contract jobs citing Ceph 2 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.025% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.056% 0.21% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile - £474 £532
25th Percentile - £491 £552
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £638
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -7.45% +4.08%
75th Percentile - £646 £678
90th Percentile - £649 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £590 £581
% change year-on-year -15.25% +1.51% -4.91%

All System Software Skills
England

Ceph falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,552 3,727 5,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.59% 11.62% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,280 2,432 3,643
10th Percentile £206 £220 £198
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £630
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 79 253
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £21.05 £18.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £31.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -34.74% +111.11%
75th Percentile £68.56 £70.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £89.19 £81.71 £77.31
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £30.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -6.56% -39.00% +124.72%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Ceph job vacancy trend in England

Ceph
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ceph.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ceph

Ceph
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ceph.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Ceph

Ceph
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ceph within the England region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
South East +10 2 £500 +5.26% 2
Ceph
UK

Ceph
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (100.00%) IPv6
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (100.00%) TACACS
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Dell