Ceph Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Ceph
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Ceph skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 372 425
Rank change year-on-year +2 +53 +82
Contract jobs citing Ceph 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.011% 0.005%
As % of the System Software category 0.21% 0.089% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £466 -
25th Percentile - £472 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -25.00% +0.78%
75th Percentile - £497 £675
90th Percentile - £499 -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -11.29%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,927 2,257 3,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.46% 12.53% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,530 2,175
10th Percentile £200 £191 £172
25th Percentile £313 £347 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £586
90th Percentile £648 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 108 191
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.03 £14.40 £17.34
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% - +40.02%
75th Percentile £86.75 £63.75 £65.98
90th Percentile £91.50 £73.78 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £24.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.07% -51.64% +127.27%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ceph as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ceph in the UK excluding London

Ceph
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ceph

Ceph
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ceph.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Ceph

Ceph
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ceph within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 August 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 +20 4 £500 +5.26%
Ceph
UK

Ceph
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

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