Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Chef
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - 61
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - 0.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.39%
75th Percentile - - £656
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £550 £582
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.50% -22.40%

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

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 in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 132 84 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.25% 15.82% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 59 53
10th Percentile £264 £259 £318
25th Percentile £409 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.65%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £695 £655
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £41.78 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +180.58%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.45 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +165.64%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Progress Chef relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Progress Chef.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk