Ceph Job Trends

Ceph
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Ceph skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 734 700
Rank change year-on-year +104 -34 +359
Permanent jobs citing Ceph 2 8 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.012% 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.044% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 11
10th Percentile £109,750 - £37,500
25th Percentile £113,125 £47,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,500 £50,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +145.00% -35.48% -13.89%
75th Percentile £128,125 £53,818 £93,750
90th Percentile £129,250 - £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £122,500 £50,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +145.00% -37.50% -17.95%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,534 7,569 8,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.38% 11.56% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,315 4,535 7,183
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,367 £28,850
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.91% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £74,066 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.14% -4.89%

Ceph
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Ceph job vacancy trend in the UK

Ceph
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ceph.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Ceph

Ceph
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ceph within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +101 2 £122,500 +145.00% 6
Work from Home +92 2 £122,500 +145.00% 2
UK excluding London +83 2 £122,500 +145.00% 3
South East +47 1 £115,000 +113.68% 2
South West +32 1 £130,000 -

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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Weka
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) InfiniBand
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Lustre
1 2 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform