Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Chef
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 119 132
Rank change year-on-year -28 +13 +67
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 15 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.48% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.92% 1.73% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 5
10th Percentile - £521 £562
25th Percentile £525 £553 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £648 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -10.69% +34.26%
75th Percentile £588 £738 £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £453 £571 £580
% change year-on-year -20.70% -1.51% -3.33%

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 513 231 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.48% 10.00% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 152 233
10th Percentile £263 £188 £259
25th Percentile £405 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £563
90th Percentile £650 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - - £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 - £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +195.57% -31.26% -
75th Percentile £77.25 £14.67 £36.36
90th Percentile £77.40 £16.16 £47.54
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
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 15 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
West Midlands -19 15 £550 -15.06% 5
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (93.33%) OpenShift
3 10 (66.67%) Azure
4 8 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
5 6 (40.00%) GCP
5 6 (40.00%) GitHub
5 6 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (33.33%) Azure AKS
6 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (33.33%) Datadog
6 5 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (33.33%) npm
6 5 (33.33%) Pulumi
7 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (26.67%) Serverless
8 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Network Security
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (26.67%) InfluxDB
4 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (53.33%) GitLab
3 6 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 6 (40.00%) Git
3 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (33.33%) Artifactory
4 5 (33.33%) CircleCI
4 5 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 5 (33.33%) Gradle
4 5 (33.33%) JUnit
4 5 (33.33%) Maven
4 5 (33.33%) Postman
4 5 (33.33%) Selenium
4 5 (33.33%) Snyk
4 5 (33.33%) webpack
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (6.67%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (6.67%) JIRA
5 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Site Engineer
1 8 (53.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (33.33%) JSON
2 5 (33.33%) REST
2 5 (33.33%) YAML
3 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (93.33%) Configuration Management
3 10 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 10 (66.67%) Software Engineering
4 9 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (60.00%) Task Automation
5 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
6 5 (33.33%) SDLC
6 5 (33.33%) Software Delivery
6 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 4 (26.67%) Observability
7 4 (26.67%) Service Management
8 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (13.33%) Domain Models
8 2 (13.33%) Event-Driven
8 2 (13.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) Go
4 4 (26.67%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
6 1 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (86.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 13 (86.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (93.33%) Ansible
3 13 (86.67%) Grafana
3 13 (86.67%) Prometheus
3 13 (86.67%) Terraform
4 8 (53.33%) Puppet
5 5 (33.33%) Podman
6 2 (13.33%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat