Ceph Contract Job Trends in London

Ceph
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Ceph skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 359 385
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 +161
Contract jobs citing Ceph 4 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.028% 0.049% 0.061%
As % of the System Software category 0.25% 0.48% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £398 - £581
25th Percentile £417 £500 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £590 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.46% -9.23% +23.81%
75th Percentile £502 £646 £700
90th Percentile £523 £649 £723
England median daily rate £458 £590 £650
% change year-on-year -22.46% -9.23% +5.91%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,618 1,448 1,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.30% 10.18% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 958 1,399
10th Percentile £336 £260 £210
25th Percentile £431 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £638
90th Percentile £750 £810 £738
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 22
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £21.33
25th Percentile £21.50 £23.59 £24.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -29.48% +35.00%
75th Percentile £25.74 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £59.14 £101.80 £71.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.71 £46.00
% change year-on-year +65.48% -37.60% +67.27%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Ceph job vacancy trend in London

Ceph
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ceph

Ceph
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ceph in London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ceph in London

Ceph
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) InfiniBand
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (25.00%) SSH
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
1 1 (25.00%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CUDA
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (50.00%) Runbook
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Lustre
1 3 (75.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) Firmware
2 2 (50.00%) KVM
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) iptables
3 1 (25.00%) NFS
3 1 (25.00%) Samba
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (25.00%) SELinux
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Mellanox
1 2 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 2 (50.00%) Supermicro
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat