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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 548 541
Rank change year-on-year -92 -7 +111
Contract jobs citing Ceph 21 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.015% 0.018%
As % of the System Software category 0.40% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile £413 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £438 - £600
90th Percentile - - £627
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -25.00%

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 5,289 3,817 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.91% 11.60% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,485 2,427 3,081
10th Percentile £225 £231 £220
25th Percentile £400 £388 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 108 143
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.56 £18.03 £16.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £33.64 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.55% +39.10% -49.45%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £59.28
90th Percentile £84.63 £91.50 £71.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.37 £63.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -6.51% +144.23% +4.00%

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
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 10 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 14 August 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 -86 16 - - 8
England -100 14 £425 -15.00% 16
North of England - 10 - - 1
Yorkshire - 7 - -
Scotland - 6 - - 1
Midlands - 5 - -
West Midlands - 5 - -
Work from Home -43 4 - - 10
London -70 4 £425 - 9
North West - 3 - - 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
1 4 (19.05%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) CloudStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 6 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) DNS
2 6 (28.57%) HTTPS
2 6 (28.57%) SSH
2 6 (28.57%) SSL
3 2 (9.52%) VLAN
3 2 (9.52%) VXLAN
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (23.81%) MariaDB
2 5 (23.81%) MongoDB
3 3 (14.29%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Military
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Product Owner
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) cloud-init
2 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (23.81%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.76%) CoreOS
4 1 (4.76%) VMS
4 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Migration
2 7 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (28.57%) Product Vision
3 6 (28.57%) RBAC
3 6 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 6 (28.57%) Secrets Management
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) High Availability
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Systems Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 3 (14.29%) Observability
6 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) Bash
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) DV Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) LFCS
3 1 (4.76%) RHCA
3 1 (4.76%) RHCE
3 1 (4.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
1 1 (4.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (28.57%) Hyper-V
4 5 (23.81%) KVM
5 4 (19.05%) Squid
6 2 (9.52%) NFS
7 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
7 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (66.67%) Ansible
2 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (28.57%) Terraform
4 2 (9.52%) Argo
4 2 (9.52%) Grafana
4 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.52%) SELinux
5 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Commvault
3 1 (4.76%) Mirantis
3 1 (4.76%) Veeam