Ceph Contract Job Trends in the South East

Ceph
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Ceph skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 178 -
Rank change year-on-year +15 - -
Contract jobs citing Ceph 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.023% -
As % of the System Software category 0.79% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
England median daily rate £500 £590 £638
% change year-on-year -15.25% -7.45% +4.08%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 509 652 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.09% 15.20% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 438 540
10th Percentile £190 £220 £172
25th Percentile £256 £360 £274
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £595
90th Percentile £638 £672 £663
England median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 66
10th Percentile £35.17 £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £67.44 £52.44 £25.01
Median hourly rate £81.00 £58.49 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year +38.49% +2.70% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81.50 £70.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.97 - £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £30.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +11.48% -35.79% +113.48%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Ceph job vacancy trend in the South East

Ceph
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ceph.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ceph

Ceph
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ceph.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Ceph

Ceph
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ceph within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 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
Berkshire - 4 £500 -
Thames Valley - 4 £500 - 1
Ceph
England

Ceph
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) BGP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (100.00%) IPv6
1 4 (100.00%) OSPF
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Spanning Tree
1 4 (100.00%) TACACS
1 4 (100.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat