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 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 380 429 383
Rank change year-on-year +49 -46 +5
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 105 113 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.30% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.78% 2.57% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 95 225
10th Percentile £393 £400 £440
25th Percentile £463 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £685 £696 £741
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%

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 3,779 4,390 7,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.52% 11.80% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 3,174 5,772
10th Percentile £313 £250 £350
25th Percentile £420 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -
75th Percentile £628 £625 £680
90th Percentile £738 £700 £755
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 120 184
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £16.83
25th Percentile £23.64 £17.74 £23.13
Median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%
75th Percentile £62.44 £51.13 £72.80
90th Percentile £76.09 £70.13 £82.16
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +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

Progress Chef
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

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in England

Progress Chef
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

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 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
London +30 46 £580 -3.33% 79
North of England +22 29 £450 -20.88% 36
North West +25 23 £475 -11.42% 24
South West +49 13 £575 +4.55% 6
South East +47 9 £500 -14.35% 24
Yorkshire +3 6 £408 -32.98% 12
Midlands +18 4 £475 +31.03% 13
East Midlands +7 4 £475 +32.22% 4
East of England +29 1 £550 -18.52% 5
Progress Chef
UK

Progress Chef
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 11 (10.48%) Confluence
2 9 (8.57%) JBoss
3 3 (2.86%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.33%) AWS
2 27 (25.71%) Azure
3 20 (19.05%) OpenShift
4 18 (17.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (9.52%) Amazon S3
7 9 (8.57%) GitHub
8 8 (7.62%) GCP
8 8 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.71%) Route 53
11 4 (3.81%) Serverless
12 3 (2.86%) Kong
13 2 (1.90%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (1.90%) AWS KMS
13 2 (1.90%) Azure Functions
13 2 (1.90%) BigCommerce
13 2 (1.90%) Cloud Run
13 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.14%) DNS
2 17 (16.19%) Firewall
3 13 (12.38%) TCP/IP
4 10 (9.52%) HTTP
5 8 (7.62%) VPN
6 7 (6.67%) Internet
7 4 (3.81%) SAN
7 4 (3.81%) SSH
8 3 (2.86%) BGP
8 3 (2.86%) DHCP
8 3 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (2.86%) LAN
8 3 (2.86%) Multicast
8 3 (2.86%) OSPF
8 3 (2.86%) VXLAN
8 3 (2.86%) WAN
9 2 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.90%) DSL
9 2 (1.90%) NAS
9 2 (1.90%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.19%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (7.62%) RDBMS
4 8 (7.62%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.86%) Hazelcast
8 3 (2.86%) Redis
9 2 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.90%) MySQL
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.95%) DB2
10 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.95%) Metadata
10 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 50 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 43 (40.95%) Git
3 28 (26.67%) JIRA
4 13 (12.38%) Bitbucket
4 13 (12.38%) CA Release Automation
5 12 (11.43%) SonarQube
6 11 (10.48%) GitLab
6 11 (10.48%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (8.57%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (8.57%) Selenium
7 9 (8.57%) TeamCity
8 8 (7.62%) Maven
9 5 (4.76%) JMeter
10 4 (3.81%) Gradle
10 4 (3.81%) HP UFT
10 4 (3.81%) IntelliJ
10 4 (3.81%) JUnit
10 4 (3.81%) NetBeans
10 4 (3.81%) Subversion
11 3 (2.86%) Artifactory
General
1 18 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.38%) Finance
3 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.76%) Banking
5 4 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.90%) Retail
8 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.95%) Legal
8 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (20.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (14.29%) Senior
3 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (8.57%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (7.62%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (7.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Architect
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Administrator
8 5 (4.76%) DevOps Specialist
8 5 (4.76%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Site Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) AWS Architect
9 4 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.05%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (12.38%) REST
2 13 (12.38%) Spring Boot
3 11 (10.48%) Kafka
3 11 (10.48%) SOAP
4 8 (7.62%) Spring
5 7 (6.67%) J2EE
6 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.81%) Hibernate
7 4 (3.81%) Spring Integration
7 4 (3.81%) Spring MVC
7 4 (3.81%) Web Services
8 3 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (2.86%) Ajax
8 3 (2.86%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.86%) CSS
8 3 (2.86%) HTML
8 3 (2.86%) HTML5
8 3 (2.86%) jQuery
8 3 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.86%) Clustering
5 3 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.86%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.86%) PKI
6 2 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.90%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Insider Threat
7 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (58.10%) Linux
2 37 (35.24%) Windows
3 16 (15.24%) Unix
4 14 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 9 (8.57%) AIX
6 6 (5.71%) CentOS
6 6 (5.71%) Solaris
6 6 (5.71%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.81%) HPUX
8 2 (1.90%) SUSE
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.38%) Configuration Management
2 47 (44.76%) DevOps
3 45 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 44 (41.90%) Deployment Automation
5 25 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 25 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (22.86%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (21.90%) Microservices
8 22 (20.95%) Agile
9 19 (18.10%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (17.14%) Migration
11 14 (13.33%) High Availability
11 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (13.33%) Validation
12 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
13 12 (11.43%) Service Management
13 12 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (10.48%) Reverse Engineering
15 10 (9.52%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 73 (69.52%) Python
2 49 (46.67%) Bash
3 34 (32.38%) PowerShell
4 22 (20.95%) Perl
5 18 (17.14%) Java
6 8 (7.62%) Ruby
6 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
6 8 (7.62%) SQL
7 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.90%) C++
9 2 (1.90%) Korn
10 1 (0.95%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.95%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.95%) C#
10 1 (0.95%) Go
10 1 (0.95%) Groovy
10 1 (0.95%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 40 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 39 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.43%) CCNP
3 12 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (9.52%) OCA
4 10 (9.52%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (9.52%) RHCA
4 10 (9.52%) RHCE
4 10 (9.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (7.62%) Degree
6 7 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.76%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.90%) CCIE
10 2 (1.90%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 40 (38.10%) Docker
2 23 (21.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.43%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.86%) vSphere
5 2 (1.90%) KVM
5 2 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.95%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.95%) NFS
6 1 (0.95%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (75.24%) Ansible
2 69 (65.71%) Puppet
3 45 (42.86%) Terraform
4 44 (41.90%) Kubernetes
5 16 (15.24%) Prometheus
6 15 (14.29%) Grafana
7 10 (9.52%) vCenter Server
8 9 (8.57%) Kibana
9 3 (2.86%) Control-M
9 3 (2.86%) Istio
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.86%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.86%) Salt
9 3 (2.86%) SCCM
9 3 (2.86%) vRealize
9 3 (2.86%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.90%) Nagios
10 2 (1.90%) Oracle ZFS
10 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (29.52%) Red Hat
2 30 (28.57%) VMware
3 21 (20.00%) Oracle
4 15 (14.29%) Cisco
5 11 (10.48%) Splunk
6 9 (8.57%) AppDynamics
7 8 (7.62%) Atlassian
7 8 (7.62%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.81%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (3.81%) Cloudera
8 4 (3.81%) Google
9 3 (2.86%) ForgeRock
9 3 (2.86%) HP
9 3 (2.86%) IBM
9 3 (2.86%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.90%) 3PAR
10 2 (1.90%) Adobe
10 2 (1.90%) EMC
10 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.90%) SAP