Progress Chef Contracts in the Midlands

Chef
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 107 125 161
Rank change year-on-year +18 +36 +32
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 4 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.29% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.68% 2.89% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £353 - £487
25th Percentile £394 £356 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £363 £499
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -27.32% -5.45%
75th Percentile £512 £494 £510
90th Percentile £527 £600 £515
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 238 277 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.43% 10.05% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 218 300
10th Percentile £200 £189 £231
25th Percentile £314 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £689 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 17
10th Percentile £12.18 £21.49 £17.72
25th Percentile £12.94 £25.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.19 £25.77 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -37.16% +18.90% +31.33%
75th Percentile £17.89 £40.57 £40.25
90th Percentile £18.13 £55.00 £50.55
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands +7 4 £475 +32.22% 4
Progress Chef
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) CA Release Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Gradle
2 2 (50.00%) HP UFT
2 2 (50.00%) IntelliJ
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) NetBeans
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) J2EE
3 2 (50.00%) jQuery
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Spring MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Perl
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk