Progress Chef Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 298 343
Rank change year-on-year +2 +45 -82
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 51 171 306
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.68% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.13% 4.13% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 124 242
10th Percentile £356 £445 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £775
90th Percentile £688 £754 £813
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,627 4,141 7,181
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.78% 16.48% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 3,059 5,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £443 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.76%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £656
90th Percentile £700 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 78 50
10th Percentile £20.40 £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £43.28 £52.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +76.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £76.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £62.25 £87.50 £79.13
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +155.56% -43.04%

Progress Chef
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Progress Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Progress Chef trend for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Progress Chef.

Progress Chef daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Progress Chef daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Progress Chef.

Progress Chef hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (7.84%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) JBoss
2 3 (5.88%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.92%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) nginx
3 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.96%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (68.63%) AWS
2 17 (33.33%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (15.69%) GCP
3 8 (15.69%) OpenShift
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (13.73%) GitHub
4 7 (13.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (11.76%) Serverless
6 5 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.80%) Amazon S3
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (9.80%) Route 53
7 4 (7.84%) Datadog
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.92%) Apigee
9 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (3.92%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) DNS
3 3 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.92%) DSL
4 2 (3.92%) HTTP
4 2 (3.92%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (3.92%) SNA
4 2 (3.92%) VPN
5 1 (1.96%) DHCP
5 1 (1.96%) SSL
5 1 (1.96%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.96%) VLAN
5 1 (1.96%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (11.76%) MySQL
2 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.84%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.92%) Big Data
6 2 (3.92%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.92%) Redis
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.96%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 28 (54.90%) Jenkins
2 14 (27.45%) Git
3 13 (25.49%) JIRA
4 9 (17.65%) GitLab
5 4 (7.84%) CircleCI
5 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.84%) TeamCity
5 4 (7.84%) Travis CI
6 3 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (5.88%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (5.88%) Maven
7 2 (3.92%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.96%) Gradle
8 1 (1.96%) Hudson
8 1 (1.96%) Mercurial
8 1 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.96%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Finance
3 11 (21.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Marketing
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
7 1 (1.96%) French Language
7 1 (1.96%) Games
7 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Military
7 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (9.80%) Senior
2 5 (9.80%) Vulnerability Specialist
3 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps
3 4 (7.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (7.84%) Unix Specialist
4 3 (5.88%) Architect
4 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Security Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Server Specialist
5 2 (3.92%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.57%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (13.73%) YAML
3 5 (9.80%) JSON
3 5 (9.80%) XML
4 4 (7.84%) Node.js
4 4 (7.84%) REST
5 3 (5.88%) RESTful
5 3 (5.88%) SOAP
5 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.92%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.92%) React
7 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.96%) Flask
7 1 (1.96%) Kafka
7 1 (1.96%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.96%) LDAP
7 1 (1.96%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (1.96%) React Native
7 1 (1.96%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Public Cloud
2 3 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
2 3 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.92%) CBDC
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Digital Currency
4 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (39.22%) Linux
2 13 (25.49%) Windows
3 8 (15.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (15.69%) Unix
4 2 (3.92%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.96%) CentOS
5 1 (1.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) DevOps
2 23 (45.10%) CI/CD
3 22 (43.14%) Configuration Management
4 21 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (23.53%) Agile
6 12 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
8 10 (19.61%) Test Automation
9 7 (13.73%) ITSM
10 6 (11.76%) Scrum
10 6 (11.76%) Security Patching
11 5 (9.80%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (9.80%) Continuous Deployment
11 5 (9.80%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (9.80%) High Availability
11 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
11 5 (9.80%) Microservices
11 5 (9.80%) Open Source
11 5 (9.80%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (66.67%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) Bash
3 16 (31.37%) PowerShell
4 14 (27.45%) Ruby
5 8 (15.69%) Java
6 7 (13.73%) C++
6 7 (13.73%) Go
6 7 (13.73%) Perl
7 4 (7.84%) C
8 3 (5.88%) SQL
9 2 (3.92%) C#
9 2 (3.92%) Groovy
9 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.92%) PHP
9 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.96%) Bicep
10 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.96%) CEH
4 1 (1.96%) CISSP
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) NIST
2 2 (3.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (45.10%) Docker
2 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 5 (9.80%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.88%) Firmware
4 3 (5.88%) vCloud
4 3 (5.88%) vSphere
5 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.96%) Postfix
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (86.27%) Ansible
2 38 (74.51%) Puppet
3 37 (72.55%) Terraform
4 23 (45.10%) Kubernetes
5 12 (23.53%) Prometheus
6 8 (15.69%) Grafana
7 7 (13.73%) Kibana
8 4 (7.84%) logstash
8 4 (7.84%) Salt
9 3 (5.88%) Autotask
9 3 (5.88%) Consul
9 3 (5.88%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (5.88%) Nagios
9 3 (5.88%) Packer
10 2 (3.92%) CFEngine
10 2 (3.92%) PowerBroker
10 2 (3.92%) vRealize
10 2 (3.92%) VxRail
11 1 (1.96%) Graylog
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Splunk
2 8 (15.69%) Red Hat
3 7 (13.73%) VMware
4 5 (9.80%) Dell
4 5 (9.80%) Qualys
5 4 (7.84%) BMC
5 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.84%) Remedy
6 3 (5.88%) AppDynamics
6 3 (5.88%) Arista
6 3 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.88%) Google
6 3 (5.88%) New Relic
6 3 (5.88%) SaltStack
6 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.88%) TOWER Software
7 2 (3.92%) LogRhythm
7 2 (3.92%) Oracle
7 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.96%) Veracode