Progress Chef Contracts

Chef
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Progress Chef skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Progress Chef over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 475 376
Rank change year-on-year +88 -99 +24
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 130 116 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.27% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.82% 2.27% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 95 272
10th Percentile £388 £393 £445
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £688
90th Percentile £656 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Progress Chef falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,102 9,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.78% 11.85% 16.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,146 3,660 6,681
10th Percentile £313 £263 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -8.44% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £719 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +1.21% -5.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 115 208
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.72 £24.56
Median hourly rate £26.50 £25.77 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -55.19% +152.75%
75th Percentile £51.75 £50.00 £70.56
90th Percentile £71.50 £71.25 £82.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £27.50 £44.88
% change year-on-year -7.85% -38.72% +124.38%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef.

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef.

Hourly rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progress Chef within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +67 104 £550 -4.35% 183
Work from Home +54 64 £550 - 131
UK excluding London +69 61 £500 -9.09% 109
London +58 47 £590 -1.67% 107
North of England +28 28 £425 -26.38% 35
North West +30 23 £475 -5.89% 29
South West +41 13 £575 +4.55% 5
South East +39 7 £500 -14.35% 38
Scotland +19 7 £525 +12.30% 10
Yorkshire +5 5 £390 -35.86% 6
Midlands +6 4 £475 +31.03% 12
East Midlands +6 4 £475 +32.22% 4
East of England +35 3 £400 -40.74% 6

Progress Chef
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 11 (8.46%) Confluence
2 10 (7.69%) JBoss
3 9 (6.92%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.77%) IIS
5 1 (0.77%) nginx
5 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Shopify
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 74 (56.92%) AWS
2 32 (24.62%) Azure
3 28 (21.54%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (18.46%) OpenShift
5 19 (14.62%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (11.54%) GitHub
7 14 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 13 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 13 (10.00%) GCP
9 12 (9.23%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.38%) Route 53
12 6 (4.62%) Serverless
13 5 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
15 3 (2.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 3 (2.31%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.77%) DNS
2 23 (17.69%) Firewall
3 19 (14.62%) TCP/IP
4 14 (10.77%) HTTP
5 11 (8.46%) VPN
6 8 (6.15%) Internet
7 5 (3.85%) BGP
7 5 (3.85%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (3.85%) Multicast
7 5 (3.85%) OSPF
7 5 (3.85%) SAN
7 5 (3.85%) VXLAN
8 4 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (3.08%) NX-OS
8 4 (3.08%) SSH
9 3 (2.31%) DHCP
9 3 (2.31%) LAN
9 3 (2.31%) NAS
9 3 (2.31%) WAN
10 2 (1.54%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.69%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.85%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.85%) Redis
5 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.08%) MariaDB
6 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.08%) MySQL
7 3 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.31%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.31%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.54%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.54%) Power Query
9 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.77%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 63 (48.46%) Jenkins
2 47 (36.15%) Git
3 32 (24.62%) JIRA
4 18 (13.85%) GitLab
5 15 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (10.77%) Bitbucket
6 14 (10.77%) CA Release Automation
7 12 (9.23%) SonarQube
7 12 (9.23%) TeamCity
8 10 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (6.15%) Maven
9 8 (6.15%) Selenium
10 5 (3.85%) Artifactory
11 4 (3.08%) Gradle
11 4 (3.08%) HP UFT
11 4 (3.08%) IntelliJ
11 4 (3.08%) JMeter
11 4 (3.08%) JUnit
11 4 (3.08%) NetBeans
11 4 (3.08%) Subversion
General
1 26 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.54%) Finance
3 8 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (6.15%) Banking
4 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.54%) Retail
7 1 (0.77%) Arabic Language
7 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.77%) Legal
7 1 (0.77%) Military
7 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (25.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Senior
3 13 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 13 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) Architect
6 9 (6.92%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) Administrator
8 6 (4.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) DevOps Specialist
8 6 (4.62%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) AWS Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Developer
9 5 (3.85%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Site Engineer
9 5 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (11.54%) Spring Boot
3 13 (10.00%) REST
4 11 (8.46%) Kafka
4 11 (8.46%) SOAP
5 8 (6.15%) Spring
6 7 (5.38%) J2EE
7 6 (4.62%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.08%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.08%) Spring Integration
8 4 (3.08%) Spring MVC
8 4 (3.08%) Web Services
9 3 (2.31%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (2.31%) Ajax
9 3 (2.31%) HTML5
9 3 (2.31%) jQuery
9 3 (2.31%) JSON
9 3 (2.31%) Node.js
9 3 (2.31%) RESTful
9 3 (2.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.92%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.15%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.31%) Clustering
6 3 (2.31%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.31%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.31%) PKI
6 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.54%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.54%) EMC VMAX
7 2 (1.54%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 74 (56.92%) Linux
2 43 (33.08%) Windows
3 20 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (13.85%) Unix
5 16 (12.31%) Windows Server
6 8 (6.15%) AIX
7 7 (5.38%) CentOS
7 7 (5.38%) Solaris
7 7 (5.38%) Ubuntu
8 5 (3.85%) HPUX
9 2 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.54%) SUSE
10 1 (0.77%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.46%) DevOps
2 62 (47.69%) CI/CD
3 61 (46.92%) Configuration Management
4 53 (40.77%) Deployment Automation
5 38 (29.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (27.69%) Containerisation
7 29 (22.31%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (20.77%) Microservices
10 22 (16.92%) Agile
11 20 (15.38%) Migration
12 18 (13.85%) Infrastructure Automation
13 17 (13.08%) High Availability
14 15 (11.54%) Service Management
15 14 (10.77%) Test Automation
15 14 (10.77%) Validation
16 13 (10.00%) Task Automation
17 12 (9.23%) Computer Science
17 12 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 11 (8.46%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 94 (72.31%) Python
2 60 (46.15%) Bash
3 46 (35.38%) PowerShell
4 26 (20.00%) Perl
5 23 (17.69%) Java
6 12 (9.23%) Shell Script
7 10 (7.69%) SQL
8 9 (6.92%) Ruby
9 7 (5.38%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.31%) C#
10 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.54%) Bicep
11 2 (1.54%) C++
11 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.54%) Go
11 2 (1.54%) Korn
12 1 (0.77%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.77%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.77%) Groovy
12 1 (0.77%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 43 (33.08%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.77%) CCNP
3 14 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (9.23%) Degree
5 10 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.69%) OCA
5 10 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (7.69%) RHCA
5 10 (7.69%) RHCE
5 10 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (4.62%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) CCIE
8 4 (3.08%) CCIE Data Center
9 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.31%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
3 2 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (39.23%) Docker
2 26 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.31%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.85%) vSphere
5 4 (3.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (2.31%) KVM
7 2 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.77%) NFS
8 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 100 (76.92%) Ansible
2 80 (61.54%) Puppet
3 62 (47.69%) Terraform
4 58 (44.62%) Kubernetes
5 25 (19.23%) Prometheus
6 24 (18.46%) Grafana
7 10 (7.69%) Kibana
7 10 (7.69%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.85%) Salt
9 3 (2.31%) Argo
9 3 (2.31%) Consul
9 3 (2.31%) Control-M
9 3 (2.31%) Istio
9 3 (2.31%) logstash
9 3 (2.31%) Packer
9 3 (2.31%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.31%) vRealize
9 3 (2.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (1.54%) Nagios
10 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 40 (30.77%) Red Hat
2 33 (25.38%) VMware
3 22 (16.92%) Oracle
4 17 (13.08%) Cisco
5 16 (12.31%) Splunk
6 11 (8.46%) Microsoft
7 10 (7.69%) AppDynamics
7 10 (7.69%) Google
8 8 (6.15%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.85%) SAP
9 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
10 4 (3.08%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (3.08%) Cloudera
10 4 (3.08%) CyberArk
10 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
10 4 (3.08%) IBM
11 3 (2.31%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (2.31%) ForgeRock
11 3 (2.31%) HP
12 2 (1.54%) New Relic