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 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 75 98
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +22
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 4 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.40% 0.87% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.29% 4.38% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £375 £544 £531
25th Percentile £387 £570 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £582 £638
Median % change year-on-year -28.52% -8.71% -12.07%
75th Percentile £436 £585 £709
90th Percentile £443 £593 £749
South East median daily rate £416 £576 £675
% change year-on-year -27.78% -14.67% -1.82%

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 175 251 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.47% 19.94% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 179 110
10th Percentile £411 £360 £345
25th Percentile £458 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.57% -0.76%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £624
90th Percentile £638 £740 £689
South East median daily rate £484 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.25% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 16
10th Percentile - - £23.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £24.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -55.45% +150.00%
75th Percentile £21.00 £26.75 £62.37
90th Percentile - - £76.50
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +14.86%

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
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 3 October 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 -3 1 £385 -33.85%
Fleet - 1 £447 - 1
Southampton - 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) CentOS
2 2 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Security Management
2 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Epics
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) RHCE
1 2 (50.00%) RHCSA
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) KVM
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Puppet
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat