Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Chef
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 4
Rank change year-on-year -2 -23 +26
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 23 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 8.10% 5.26% 27.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.86% 52.94% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 11
10th Percentile £304 £384 £495
25th Percentile £315 £407 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £445 £560
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -20.54% +71.78%
75th Percentile £488 £473 £586
90th Percentile £492 £504 -
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £455 £560
% change year-on-year -1.98% -18.75% +71.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 70 17 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 24.65% 9.94% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 14 23
10th Percentile £305 £370 £496
25th Percentile £325 £421 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £483 £583
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% -17.24% +52.82%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £593
90th Percentile £513 £671 £593
Cheshire median daily rate £384 £465 £550
% change year-on-year -17.42% -15.45% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.88 £85.00 -
% change year-on-year -80.15% - -

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in Knutsford

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in Knutsford over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in Knutsford

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (60.87%) JBoss
2 10 (43.48%) Apache
3 8 (34.78%) IIS
3 8 (34.78%) WebSphere
4 7 (30.43%) iPlanet
4 7 (30.43%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.70%) Serverless
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Kerberos
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) HTTP
2 2 (8.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle Database
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
4 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
5 3 (13.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) Git
2 14 (60.87%) Jenkins
3 12 (52.17%) CA Release Automation
4 11 (47.83%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (47.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (34.78%) JIRA
6 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
7 4 (17.39%) TeamCity
8 2 (8.70%) GitLab
8 2 (8.70%) Selenium
9 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
9 1 (4.35%) Gradle
9 1 (4.35%) HP UFT
9 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
9 1 (4.35%) JUnit
9 1 (4.35%) Maven
9 1 (4.35%) NetBeans
9 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Specialist
3 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) ForgeRock Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) OAuth
1 8 (34.78%) OpenID
1 8 (34.78%) SAML
2 7 (30.43%) LDAP
3 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
4 4 (17.39%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (13.04%) Kafka
6 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.35%) J2EE
6 1 (4.35%) Middleware
6 1 (4.35%) RESTful
6 1 (4.35%) Spring
6 1 (4.35%) Spring Integration
6 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
6 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) PKI
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
1 15 (65.22%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
3 7 (30.43%) Unix
4 4 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 18 (78.26%) DevOps
3 8 (34.78%) Deployment Automation
3 8 (34.78%) Task Automation
4 7 (30.43%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (30.43%) Migration
5 6 (26.09%) Microservices
6 5 (21.74%) Code Quality
6 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
7 4 (17.39%) Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Change Management
7 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
7 4 (17.39%) Runbook
7 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (13.04%) Build Automation
8 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (13.04%) Observability
8 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Groovy
3 7 (30.43%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
4 5 (21.74%) Bash
5 4 (17.39%) Perl
5 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 4 (17.39%) SQL
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Docker
2 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
3 7 (30.43%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) CA Single Sign-On
3 7 (30.43%) CA Wily
3 7 (30.43%) Tivoli
4 6 (26.09%) Ansible
5 4 (17.39%) Kibana
5 4 (17.39%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Oracle
2 11 (47.83%) AppDynamics
2 11 (47.83%) Splunk
3 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
4 9 (39.13%) IBM
5 8 (34.78%) Broadcom
6 4 (17.39%) Cloudera
6 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
7 2 (8.70%) ForgeRock
8 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central