Progress Chef Contracts in Cheshire

Chef
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 44 33
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 18 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.01% 2.78% 5.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.22% 23.33% 34.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 25
10th Percentile £368 £411 £325
25th Percentile £393 £463 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £445
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.42% +9.61%
75th Percentile £498 £582 £565
90th Percentile £587 - £680
North West median daily rate £475 £536 £487
% change year-on-year -11.42% +10.03% -7.17%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 81 60 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.04% 11.90% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 37 68
10th Percentile £307 £184 £200
25th Percentile £354 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.68% -2.42%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £571
90th Percentile £638 £582 £641
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.72 £12.35
25th Percentile £81.75 £17.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.22% -11.40% -
75th Percentile £85.25 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.74 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in Cheshire

Progress Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in Cheshire

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in Cheshire

Progress Chef
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Knutsford -2 17 £475 -8.39% 4
Progress Chef
North West

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (27.78%) JBoss
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
1 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) DB2
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) JIRA
2 10 (55.56%) Git
2 10 (55.56%) Jenkins
3 7 (38.89%) CA Release Automation
4 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
5 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (27.78%) TeamCity
6 4 (22.22%) GitLab
7 3 (16.67%) Selenium
8 2 (11.11%) Gradle
8 2 (11.11%) HP UFT
8 2 (11.11%) IntelliJ
8 2 (11.11%) JUnit
8 2 (11.11%) Maven
8 2 (11.11%) NetBeans
8 2 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) ForgeRock Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Database Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Spring Boot
2 5 (27.78%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (22.22%) Kafka
4 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.11%) J2EE
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) Spring Integration
4 2 (11.11%) Spring MVC
4 2 (11.11%) Web Services
5 1 (5.56%) Ajax
5 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) Bootstrap
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) HTML5
5 1 (5.56%) jQuery
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 10 (55.56%) Microservices
3 9 (50.00%) Migration
4 7 (38.89%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 6 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (27.78%) Build Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (27.78%) Observability
6 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
7 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
8 3 (16.67%) Agile
8 3 (16.67%) Change Management
8 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
8 3 (16.67%) Runbook
8 3 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) Perl
4 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
5 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.11%) Ruby
7 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (27.78%) Kibana
4 2 (11.11%) Puppet
4 2 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Splunk
2 5 (27.78%) AppDynamics
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
3 4 (22.22%) Cloudera
4 2 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (11.11%) ForgeRock
5 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
5 1 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) Imperva
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft