Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in England

Chef
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 556 436 407
Rank change year-on-year -120 -29 +3
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 81 79 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.59% 2.00% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 66 73
10th Percentile £411 £300 £445
25th Percentile £460 £350 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £473 £570
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% -17.02% -7.17%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £622
90th Percentile £650 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.00 - £85.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.97%

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 5,093 3,950 3,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.99% 14.23% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,395 2,598 2,572
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £630
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 75 52
10th Percentile £21.18 £17.54 £20.06
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £66.35 £34.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year +95.13% -9.93% -28.10%
75th Percentile £74.75 £63.58 £63.00
90th Percentile £89.13 £73.40 £74.94
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £25.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year +153.92% -32.13% -33.03%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in England

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in England over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in England

Progress Chef
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Progress Chef.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
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 6 October 2026. 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
North of England -65 35 £488 +8.33% 16
North West -42 30 £475 +5.56% 12
London -100 25 £543 -13.20% 87
Midlands -38 8 £600 +4.35% 6
West Midlands -43 8 £600 +4.35% 5
South East -52 8 £650 +56.25% 9
East of England -27 3 £513 +105.00% 2
North East - 3 £500 - 4
Yorkshire -37 2 £506 +6.58%
South West - 2 £539 - 10
Progress Chef
UK

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.94%) Apache
2 3 (3.70%) nginx
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 60 (74.07%) AWS
1 60 (74.07%) Azure
2 31 (38.27%) GCP
3 21 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (22.22%) GitHub
4 18 (22.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 17 (20.99%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (18.52%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (17.28%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (16.05%) Datadog
9 11 (13.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (12.35%) Azure AKS
10 10 (12.35%) Serverless
11 9 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (11.11%) OpenShift
11 9 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (9.88%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (9.88%) Entra ID
13 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (8.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (38.27%) Firewall
2 18 (22.22%) Network Security
3 13 (16.05%) DNS
4 8 (9.88%) VPN
5 3 (3.70%) FTP
5 3 (3.70%) SSL
5 3 (3.70%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.47%) DHCP
6 2 (2.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.23%) BGP
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.23%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.23%) MPLS
7 1 (1.23%) OSPF
7 1 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.23%) VXLAN
7 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (3.70%) MySQL
2 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.47%) InfluxDB
2 2 (2.47%) MariaDB
2 2 (2.47%) Power BI
2 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.23%) Big Data
3 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 27 (33.33%) GitLab
3 19 (23.46%) Git
4 6 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.94%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.47%) Maven
6 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.23%) Gradle
7 1 (1.23%) JUnit
7 1 (1.23%) Postman
7 1 (1.23%) Selenium
7 1 (1.23%) Snyk
7 1 (1.23%) webpack
General
1 26 (32.10%) Finance
2 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.88%) Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Legal
6 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Cloud Engineer
1 19 (23.46%) Security Engineer
2 9 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Linux Engineer
3 8 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Network Engineer
4 7 (8.64%) Site Engineer
5 6 (7.41%) Architect
6 5 (6.17%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) SIEM Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Splunk Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Linux Systems Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Platform Architect
9 2 (2.47%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (67.90%) Terraform
2 10 (12.35%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (8.64%) ARM Templates
4 5 (6.17%) Kafka
5 4 (4.94%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (4.94%) Pulumi
6 3 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (3.70%) OAuth
6 3 (3.70%) OpenID
6 3 (3.70%) REST
7 2 (2.47%) JSON
7 2 (2.47%) Keycloak
7 2 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (2.47%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (2.47%) YAML
8 1 (1.23%) AWS CDK
8 1 (1.23%) LEMP Stack
8 1 (1.23%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (1.23%) Software Packaging
8 1 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (34.57%) Cloud Native
2 19 (23.46%) Security Posture
3 16 (19.75%) Private Cloud
4 11 (13.58%) Management Information System
5 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (4.94%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (3.70%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (3.70%) PKI
9 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Clustering
10 1 (1.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.23%) NVMe
10 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (69.14%) Linux
2 32 (39.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (35.80%) Windows
4 15 (18.52%) Unix
5 3 (3.70%) AIX
6 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (65.43%) CI/CD
2 48 (59.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (56.79%) DevOps
4 44 (54.32%) Configuration Management
5 29 (35.80%) Containerisation
6 26 (32.10%) Cloud Security
7 24 (29.63%) SIEM
8 22 (27.16%) Agile
8 22 (27.16%) Infrastructure Automation
8 22 (27.16%) Observability
8 22 (27.16%) Test Automation
9 20 (24.69%) Scrum
10 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (20.99%) Load Balancing
11 16 (19.75%) Change Management
11 16 (19.75%) Incident Response
11 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (16.05%) Deployment Automation
13 12 (14.81%) Data Protection
13 12 (14.81%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 69 (85.19%) Python
2 51 (62.96%) PowerShell
3 48 (59.26%) Bash
4 23 (28.40%) Java
5 11 (13.58%) SQL
6 10 (12.35%) C++
7 9 (11.11%) Bicep
8 8 (9.88%) C
8 8 (9.88%) Perl
9 7 (8.64%) Go
9 7 (8.64%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (6.17%) C#
10 5 (6.17%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
12 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (34.57%) AWS Certification
2 24 (29.63%) Security Cleared
3 21 (25.93%) Azure Certification
4 20 (24.69%) CISSP
5 19 (23.46%) Degree
6 13 (16.05%) DV Cleared
7 10 (12.35%) SC Cleared
8 6 (7.41%) GCIH
9 5 (6.17%) GCFA
10 4 (4.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.70%) CCNP
11 3 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (2.47%) CCIE
12 2 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (2.47%) RHCE
13 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (1.23%) FFIEC
13 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (1.23%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.17%) GDPR
2 5 (6.17%) NIST
2 5 (6.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.94%) QA
4 3 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.23%) GLBA
System Software
1 35 (43.21%) Docker
2 5 (6.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.17%) NFS
3 3 (3.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (2.47%) Postfix
4 2 (2.47%) Varnish
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.23%) Sendmail
5 1 (1.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (69.14%) Ansible
2 44 (54.32%) Kubernetes
3 39 (48.15%) Puppet
4 24 (29.63%) Grafana
4 24 (29.63%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.17%) CASB
6 4 (4.94%) Argo
7 3 (3.70%) HAProxy
7 3 (3.70%) PowerBroker
7 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.70%) Tivoli
7 3 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (2.47%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.23%) Istio
9 1 (1.23%) Podman
9 1 (1.23%) Salt
Vendors
1 28 (34.57%) Red Hat
2 27 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 19 (23.46%) Google
4 14 (17.28%) Splunk
5 12 (14.81%) SaltStack
6 5 (6.17%) Cribl.io
6 5 (6.17%) VMware
7 4 (4.94%) Dynatrace
7 4 (4.94%) Oracle
8 3 (3.70%) AlgoSec
8 3 (3.70%) Veritas
9 2 (2.47%) Cisco
9 2 (2.47%) Databricks
9 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.23%) Cadence
10 1 (1.23%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.23%) Dell
10 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.23%) Hitachi
10 1 (1.23%) NetApp