Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Chef
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 77 89
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +25
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 14 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.08% 0.11% 0.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 6.48% 0.66% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 5
10th Percentile £360 - £533
25th Percentile £363 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.26% -5.00% -9.43%
75th Percentile £437 - £688
90th Percentile £652 - £740
South East median daily rate £398 £488 £600
% change year-on-year -18.46% -18.75% -7.69%

All Systems Management Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 216 152 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.60% 16.43% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 122 87
10th Percentile £363 £314 £395
25th Percentile £456 £419 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £618
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile - £20.20 £19.99
25th Percentile £19.00 £20.54 £31.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.24 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.90% -44.41% +81.82%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.06 £55.70
90th Percentile £64.76 £26.07 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £29.25 £48.40
% change year-on-year +36.75% -39.57% +14.87%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in Hampshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in Hampshire

Progress Chef
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Farnborough -2 4 £416 -26.97%
Fleet - 1 £447 -
Basingstoke - 1 £650 - 1
Romsey - 1 £740 -
Southampton - 1 - - 1
Progress Chef
South East

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) GitHub
2 10 (71.43%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (64.29%) OpenShift
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (64.29%) Cucumber
2 9 (64.29%) JMeter
2 9 (64.29%) JUnit
2 9 (64.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
1 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 7 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 7 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Kafka Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Kafka
1 9 (64.29%) Spring
2 8 (57.14%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) CentOS
2 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (50.00%) Observability
4 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Configuration Management
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 4 (28.57%) Epics
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
6 4 (28.57%) User Stories
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (21.43%) DevOps
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Network Management
8 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (14.29%) Security Management
8 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Bash
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) RHCE
2 2 (14.29%) RHCSA
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (35.71%) Docker
3 2 (14.29%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (100.00%) Ansible
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Puppet
4 3 (21.43%) Terraform
5 2 (14.29%) Grafana
5 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk