Ceph Contract Job Trends

Ceph
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Ceph skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 550 645
Rank change year-on-year -13 +95 +164
Contract jobs citing Ceph 5 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.023% 0.012%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.20% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile - £481 £441
25th Percentile - £500 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £634 £678
90th Percentile - £648 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £650
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +0.78%

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 3,885 4,408 6,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 11.45% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,454 2,959 4,355
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £625
90th Percentile £670 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £472
% change year-on-year - +0.71% +4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 113 269
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.02 £17.44 £19.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £80.00 £59.88 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.05 £74.65 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £27.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +136.36% -31.25% +100.00%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ceph as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ceph 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
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 5 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 18 September 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 +15 5 £500 -13.04% 11
South East +23 4 £500 +5.26%
UK excluding London -6 4 £500 - 8
Work from Home +26 1 - - 5
London +18 1 - - 4

Ceph
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 4 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (80.00%) IPv6
1 4 (80.00%) OSPF
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
1 4 (80.00%) Spanning Tree
1 4 (80.00%) TACACS
1 4 (80.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Dell
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat