Ceph Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Ceph
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Ceph skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Ceph 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.068% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.47% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £458 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -23.75% -7.69% -18.75%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 428 191 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.55% 14.26% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 139 129
10th Percentile £263 £167 £178
25th Percentile £398 £333 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +22.50% -12.57%
75th Percentile £550 £659 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile - £15.22 £14.41
25th Percentile £42.50 £15.95 £15.21
Median hourly rate £54.07 £18.13 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +198.22% +1.85% -3.78%
75th Percentile £70.25 £29.85 £20.90
90th Percentile £74.60 £37.86 £22.61
England median hourly rate £50.00 £29.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +72.41% +31.82% -45.00%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Ceph job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Ceph
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ceph within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Birmingham - 2 - -
Ceph
England

Ceph
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Secrets Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines