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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 516 569
Rank change year-on-year -104 +53 +128
Contract jobs citing Ceph 18 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.014% 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.37% 0.11% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £408 - -
25th Percentile £443 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -
75th Percentile £519 £563 £634
90th Percentile £530 £600 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -

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 4,831 3,586 4,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.06% 12.31% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,243 2,435 3,147
10th Percentile £219 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £680 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 84 230
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.41 £14.48
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +25.00% -58.52%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £91.00 £88.53 £78.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £32.32 £19.18
% change year-on-year +62.43% +68.57% -54.21%

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 May 2026.

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 9 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 May 2026. 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
UK excluding London -96 11 - - 2
England -111 11 £458 -8.50% 4
Yorkshire - 7 - -
North of England - 7 - -
Work from Home -19 6 - - 2
Midlands - 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -
London -61 4 £458 -23.75% 3
Scotland - 4 - - 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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
1 2 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) SSH
2 3 (16.67%) HTTPS
2 3 (16.67%) InfiniBand
2 3 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) Firewall
4 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
4 1 (5.56%) LAN
4 1 (5.56%) SAN
4 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) MariaDB
2 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) IBM Storage Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) cloud-init
1 1 (5.56%) LAMP
1 1 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
1 1 (5.56%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) CUDA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) CoreOS
4 1 (5.56%) Unix
4 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (38.89%) Migration
3 6 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 6 (33.33%) RBAC
3 6 (33.33%) Secrets Management
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Observability
5 4 (22.22%) Open Source
6 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Architectural Design
7 2 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) Bash
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
1 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) Lustre
4 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (16.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Docker
5 2 (11.11%) Firmware
5 2 (11.11%) KVM
5 2 (11.11%) Squid
6 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
6 1 (5.56%) GPFS
6 1 (5.56%) iptables
6 1 (5.56%) NFS
6 1 (5.56%) Samba
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Grafana
3 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.11%) Argo
4 2 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
5 1 (5.56%) SELinux
5 1 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) Mellanox
3 2 (11.11%) NVIDIA
3 2 (11.11%) Supermicro
4 1 (5.56%) Commvault
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam