Ceph Contract Job Trends

Ceph
UK

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 533 583
Rank change year-on-year -64 +50 +182
Contract jobs citing Ceph 6 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.032% 0.043%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.27% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 10
10th Percentile £408 - £449
25th Percentile £443 £500 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +7.27% -10.20%
75th Percentile £519 £649 £645
90th Percentile £530 £650 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate - £575 £538
% change year-on-year - +6.98% -25.86%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,499 4,100 5,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.26% 11.98% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,984 2,653 3,808
10th Percentile £213 £204 £197
25th Percentile £400 £368 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £598 £619 £613
90th Percentile £688 £710 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £466 £474
% change year-on-year +1.88% -1.53% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 88 232
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.52
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.46 £18.45
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.71 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.48% -37.52% +83.76%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £67.60
90th Percentile £91.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.75 £31.00 £42.04
% change year-on-year +102.42% -26.26% +101.96%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Ceph job vacancy trend in the UK

Ceph
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Ceph
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ceph over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ceph in the UK

Ceph
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Ceph
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 December 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
England -40 5 £458 -22.46% 4
London -5 4 £458 -22.46% 2
Work from Home -3 2 - -
UK excluding London -57 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Ceph
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) InfiniBand
1 3 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) Kerberos
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (16.67%) SSH
3 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Storage Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LAMP
1 1 (16.67%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CUDA
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) VMS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 2 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre Operations
2 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Lustre
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) KVM
2 3 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 2 (33.33%) Firmware
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) GPFS
4 1 (16.67%) iptables
4 1 (16.67%) NFS
4 1 (16.67%) QEMU
4 1 (16.67%) Samba
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
3 1 (16.67%) SELinux
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dell
1 2 (33.33%) Mellanox
1 2 (33.33%) NVIDIA
1 2 (33.33%) Supermicro
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat