Progress Chef Contracts

Chef
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Progress Chef skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Progress Chef over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 473 373 397
Rank change year-on-year -100 +24 -100
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 125 388 576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.46% 4.03% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 282 441
10th Percentile £400 £445 £438
25th Percentile £485 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £750
90th Percentile £710 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £46.20
25th Percentile - £56.25 £48.00
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - +12.75% -17.07%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £71.25
90th Percentile - - £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -32.35% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Progress Chef is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

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

Progress Chef
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

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
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

Progress Chef
Top 15 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 27 April 2024. 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 -32 111 £575 -8.00% 76
UK excluding London -9 57 £550 +4.76% 52
Work from Home +12 56 £575 -4.17% 50
London -18 54 £600 -11.11% 36
North of England +17 26 £569 +17.33% 10
North West -6 15 £536 +10.03% 3
Yorkshire +26 11 £608 +43.06% 4
South West +20 10 £550 - 5
South East +4 8 £584 -6.60% 11
Midlands +23 6 £356 -28.62% 8
East Midlands - 5 £356 - 2
Scotland +8 4 £468 -15.00% 9
East of England +12 2 £675 +29.81% 3
West Midlands +25 1 £750 +50.38% 6
Wales +15 1 £690 +18.71% 4

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 9 (7.20%) Confluence
2 6 (4.80%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.00%) Apache
3 5 (4.00%) JBoss
4 3 (2.40%) Apache Solr
4 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.60%) nginx
6 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.80%) IIS
6 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.80%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.60%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 80 (64.00%) AWS
2 46 (36.80%) Azure
3 26 (20.80%) GCP
4 23 (18.40%) GitHub
4 23 (18.40%) OpenShift
5 18 (14.40%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (12.80%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (11.20%) Serverless
8 13 (10.40%) Amazon S3
8 13 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.40%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (4.80%) Apigee
13 6 (4.80%) Datadog
13 6 (4.80%) Kong
13 6 (4.80%) Route 53
13 6 (4.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.20%) TCP/IP
2 17 (13.60%) HTTP
3 14 (11.20%) DNS
4 13 (10.40%) Firewall
5 12 (9.60%) SSL
6 7 (5.60%) AMQP
6 7 (5.60%) DSL
6 7 (5.60%) Network Security
7 6 (4.80%) DHCP
7 6 (4.80%) VPN
8 4 (3.20%) SNA
9 3 (2.40%) Internet
10 2 (1.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.60%) VSAN
11 1 (0.80%) Skype
11 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.80%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.80%) Unified Communications
11 1 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.80%) Relational Database
2 16 (12.80%) MySQL
3 15 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.40%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (8.00%) RDBMS
7 8 (6.40%) InfluxDB
8 7 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.00%) Redis
10 4 (3.20%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (2.40%) Big Data
11 3 (2.40%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.60%) MariaDB
12 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.60%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.80%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.80%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 76 (60.80%) Jenkins
2 35 (28.00%) Git
3 25 (20.00%) JIRA
4 22 (17.60%) GitLab
5 11 (8.80%) SonarQube
6 9 (7.20%) CircleCI
7 8 (6.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (6.40%) Travis CI
8 7 (5.60%) TeamCity
9 6 (4.80%) AppScan
9 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (4.80%) Burp Suite
9 6 (4.80%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
10 5 (4.00%) Subversion
11 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.40%) Maven
12 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.80%) Gradle
13 1 (0.80%) Vagrant
General
1 41 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.80%) Finance
3 19 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.80%) Banking
6 5 (4.00%) Marketing
7 3 (2.40%) Electronics
7 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.40%) Retail
7 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.60%) Wearables
9 1 (0.80%) French Language
9 1 (0.80%) Games
9 1 (0.80%) German Language
9 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.80%) Military
9 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (28.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (14.40%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (11.20%) Site Engineer
4 12 (9.60%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Linux Server Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Server Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Senior
7 8 (6.40%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Architect
8 7 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Python Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Lead
10 5 (4.00%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Vulnerability Specialist
11 4 (3.20%) DevOps Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (8.80%) YAML
3 9 (7.20%) JSON
3 9 (7.20%) XML
4 7 (5.60%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (4.80%) Node.js
6 5 (4.00%) REST
6 5 (4.00%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.20%) Django
7 4 (3.20%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.20%) Flask
7 4 (3.20%) Kafka
7 4 (3.20%) LDAP
8 3 (2.40%) .NET
8 3 (2.40%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.40%) RESTful
8 3 (2.40%) SOAP
9 2 (1.60%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.60%) React
10 1 (0.80%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.40%) Public Cloud
2 15 (12.00%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.80%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.40%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
6 6 (4.80%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.20%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.40%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.60%) CBDC
9 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.60%) Genomics
9 2 (1.60%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.60%) Life Science
9 2 (1.60%) NHS
9 2 (1.60%) PKI
10 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.80%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 60 (48.00%) Linux
2 32 (25.60%) Windows
3 17 (13.60%) Unix
4 12 (9.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (8.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.60%) CentOS
6 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.80%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (60.00%) DevOps
2 70 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 50 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (38.40%) Configuration Management
5 36 (28.80%) Continuous Integration
6 32 (25.60%) Containerisation
7 27 (21.60%) Agile
8 26 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 20 (16.00%) Test Automation
11 15 (12.00%) Scrum
12 14 (11.20%) Microservices
12 14 (11.20%) Observability
12 14 (11.20%) Project Management
13 13 (10.40%) Open Source
13 13 (10.40%) Task Automation
14 12 (9.60%) DevSecOps
14 12 (9.60%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (8.80%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (8.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 78 (62.40%) Python
2 35 (28.00%) Bash
3 34 (27.20%) PowerShell
4 26 (20.80%) Ruby
5 21 (16.80%) Java
6 18 (14.40%) Go
7 11 (8.80%) Perl
7 11 (8.80%) SQL
8 10 (8.00%) C
9 8 (6.40%) C++
10 6 (4.80%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.20%) Bicep
12 3 (2.40%) C#
12 3 (2.40%) Groovy
13 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
13 2 (1.60%) PHP
13 2 (1.60%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.80%) Rust
14 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (30.40%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.80%) DV Cleared
3 17 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.40%) SANS
6 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.60%) CISSP
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.80%) CEH
7 1 (0.80%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.80%) LPIC
7 1 (0.80%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (1.60%) NIST
2 2 (1.60%) SLA
3 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 61 (48.80%) Docker
2 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (6.40%) VMware NSX
4 5 (4.00%) Firmware
4 5 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.40%) vCloud
5 3 (2.40%) vSphere
6 2 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.80%) Ceph
7 1 (0.80%) KVM
7 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.80%) NFS
7 1 (0.80%) Postfix
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.80%) Xen
Systems Management
1 99 (79.20%) Ansible
2 91 (72.80%) Puppet
3 81 (64.80%) Terraform
4 60 (48.00%) Kubernetes
5 34 (27.20%) Prometheus
6 30 (24.00%) Grafana
7 15 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
8 13 (10.40%) Kibana
9 9 (7.20%) Nagios
10 8 (6.40%) Graylog
10 8 (6.40%) logstash
11 7 (5.60%) CFEngine
11 7 (5.60%) PowerBroker
12 6 (4.80%) HP Fortify
12 6 (4.80%) Nessus
12 6 (4.80%) WebInspect
13 5 (4.00%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (4.00%) Salt
14 4 (3.20%) Packer
14 4 (3.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (21.60%) Splunk
2 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.20%) VMware
4 11 (8.80%) Red Hat
5 10 (8.00%) Dell
6 9 (7.20%) Atlassian
7 6 (4.80%) Checkmarx
7 6 (4.80%) New Relic
7 6 (4.80%) SAP
7 6 (4.80%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.80%) Veracode
8 5 (4.00%) AppDynamics
8 5 (4.00%) BMC
8 5 (4.00%) Google
8 5 (4.00%) Qualys
8 5 (4.00%) Remedy
8 5 (4.00%) SaltStack
8 5 (4.00%) SolarWinds
9 4 (3.20%) LogRhythm
10 3 (2.40%) Arista