Progress Chef Contracts in England

Chef
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 432 408
Rank change year-on-year +43 -24 +20
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 109 124 240
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.33% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.66% 2.64% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 95 186
10th Percentile £350 £400 £488
25th Percentile £402 £469 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £560 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -13.85% +5.05%
75th Percentile £594 £645 £700
90th Percentile £667 £675 £744
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.09% -12.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,096 4,696 7,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.69% 12.56% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,382 5,149
10th Percentile £305 £300 £350
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £688
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -0.97% -6.36% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 96 161
10th Percentile £20.13 £16.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.35 £71.25 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £32.77 £32.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.83% -43.48% +155.56%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Progress Chef in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
London +49 48 £600 +4.35% 77
North of England +9 28 £393 -30.90% 17
North West +20 22 £393 -13.63% 12
South West +24 12 £575 +0.88% 7
East of England +28 6 £366 -45.74% 3
Yorkshire -6 6 £408 -34.49% 5
South East +29 5 £525 -9.79% 7
Midlands -9 5 £506 +6.53% 11
East Midlands -7 4 £475 +6.74% 4
West Midlands -5 1 £550 -5.50% 7
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (12.84%) JBoss
2 13 (11.93%) Confluence
3 7 (6.42%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.92%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 71 (65.14%) AWS
2 25 (22.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 23 (21.10%) Azure
4 17 (15.60%) OpenShift
5 16 (14.68%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (11.93%) GCP
7 12 (11.01%) GitHub
8 11 (10.09%) Amazon S3
9 9 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (5.50%) Route 53
12 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.59%) Serverless
13 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (2.75%) AWS Fargate
14 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (2.75%) Datadog
14 3 (2.75%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.94%) DNS
2 21 (19.27%) Firewall
3 11 (10.09%) HTTP
3 11 (10.09%) VPN
4 10 (9.17%) TCP/IP
5 8 (7.34%) Internet
6 3 (2.75%) DHCP
6 3 (2.75%) LAN
6 3 (2.75%) SSH
6 3 (2.75%) WAN
7 2 (1.83%) DSL
7 2 (1.83%) SAN
8 1 (0.92%) FTP
8 1 (0.92%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.92%) SNA
8 1 (0.92%) SNMP
8 1 (0.92%) SSL
8 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.51%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (11.93%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.01%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (11.01%) RDBMS
4 11 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (7.34%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.59%) MariaDB
7 5 (4.59%) MySQL
8 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.75%) Hazelcast
9 3 (2.75%) Redis
10 2 (1.83%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.92%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.92%) DB2
11 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.92%) Metadata
11 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 59 (54.13%) Jenkins
2 49 (44.95%) Git
3 36 (33.03%) JIRA
4 17 (15.60%) TeamCity
5 16 (14.68%) CA Release Automation
5 16 (14.68%) SonarQube
6 15 (13.76%) Bitbucket
7 14 (12.84%) GitLab
8 13 (11.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (11.01%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (8.26%) Selenium
11 7 (6.42%) Maven
12 4 (3.67%) Gradle
12 4 (3.67%) HP UFT
12 4 (3.67%) IntelliJ
12 4 (3.67%) JMeter
12 4 (3.67%) JUnit
12 4 (3.67%) NetBeans
12 4 (3.67%) Subversion
13 3 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 22 (20.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.01%) Finance
3 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (4.59%) Banking
4 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.83%) Retail
6 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (24.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (11.01%) AWS DevOps
2 12 (11.01%) Senior
3 10 (9.17%) Administrator
3 10 (9.17%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (8.26%) DevOps Specialist
4 9 (8.26%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (8.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (6.42%) Architect
6 7 (6.42%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Site Engineer
8 5 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) AWS Architect
9 4 (3.67%) Lead
9 4 (3.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (25.69%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (15.60%) Spring Boot
3 13 (11.93%) REST
4 11 (10.09%) SOAP
5 8 (7.34%) Kafka
5 8 (7.34%) Spring
6 7 (6.42%) J2EE
7 6 (5.50%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.67%) Hibernate
8 4 (3.67%) Spring Integration
8 4 (3.67%) Spring MVC
8 4 (3.67%) Web Services
9 3 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (2.75%) Ajax
9 3 (2.75%) Bootstrap
9 3 (2.75%) CSS
9 3 (2.75%) HTML
9 3 (2.75%) jQuery
9 3 (2.75%) LAMP
9 3 (2.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.67%) PKI
4 3 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.75%) Mainframe
4 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.83%) Clustering
5 2 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.83%) EMC VMAX
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.92%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 69 (63.30%) Linux
2 42 (38.53%) Windows
3 21 (19.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (12.84%) Windows Server
5 13 (11.93%) Unix
6 6 (5.50%) CentOS
7 5 (4.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.75%) Debian
9 2 (1.83%) AIX
9 2 (1.83%) Solaris
9 2 (1.83%) SUSE
10 1 (0.92%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) DevOps
2 56 (51.38%) Configuration Management
3 55 (50.46%) CI/CD
4 48 (44.04%) Deployment Automation
5 38 (34.86%) Containerisation
6 33 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (28.44%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (23.85%) Microservices
10 25 (22.94%) Agile
11 20 (18.35%) Infrastructure Automation
11 20 (18.35%) Migration
12 14 (12.84%) Build Automation
12 14 (12.84%) Code Quality
13 13 (11.93%) High Availability
13 13 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (11.93%) Validation
14 11 (10.09%) Reverse Engineering
14 11 (10.09%) Service Management
14 11 (10.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 79 (72.48%) Python
2 50 (45.87%) Bash
3 34 (31.19%) PowerShell
4 24 (22.02%) Perl
5 23 (21.10%) Java
6 14 (12.84%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.34%) JavaScript
7 8 (7.34%) SQL
8 7 (6.42%) Ruby
9 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.83%) C++
10 2 (1.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.92%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.92%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.92%) C#
11 1 (0.92%) Go
11 1 (0.92%) Korn
11 1 (0.92%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (34.86%) Security Cleared
2 36 (33.03%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.17%) CCNP
3 10 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (9.17%) OCA
3 10 (9.17%) Oracle Certification
3 10 (9.17%) RHCA
3 10 (9.17%) RHCE
3 10 (9.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (7.34%) Degree
5 6 (5.50%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.92%) IBM Certification
8 1 (0.92%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (48.62%) Docker
2 19 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (14.68%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.83%) VirtualBox
4 2 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.92%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.92%) iptables
5 1 (0.92%) NFS
5 1 (0.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (69.72%) Ansible
2 74 (67.89%) Puppet
3 53 (48.62%) Kubernetes
4 50 (45.87%) Terraform
5 20 (18.35%) Prometheus
6 16 (14.68%) Grafana
7 13 (11.93%) Kibana
8 10 (9.17%) vCenter Server
9 9 (8.26%) Salt
10 4 (3.67%) Nagios
11 3 (2.75%) Control-M
11 3 (2.75%) Istio
11 3 (2.75%) Rundeck
11 3 (2.75%) vRealize
11 3 (2.75%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (1.83%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (1.83%) Icinga
12 2 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (25.69%) Red Hat
2 25 (22.94%) VMware
3 23 (21.10%) Oracle
4 15 (13.76%) Splunk
5 13 (11.93%) AppDynamics
5 13 (11.93%) Cisco
6 8 (7.34%) Cloudera
6 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
7 7 (6.42%) Atlassian
7 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.59%) IBM
9 4 (3.67%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (3.67%) Google
9 4 (3.67%) New Relic
10 3 (2.75%) ForgeRock
10 3 (2.75%) Rackspace
11 2 (1.83%) 3PAR
11 2 (1.83%) Brocade
11 2 (1.83%) Sitecore
11 2 (1.83%) Zend