Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Chef
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 179 134 128
Rank change year-on-year -45 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 22 30 59
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.47% 0.83% 1.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.38% 5.17% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 36
10th Percentile £303 £379 £487
25th Percentile £311 £478 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £624 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.15% +13.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £484 £638 £582
90th Percentile £546 £648 £606
England median daily rate £453 £570 £580
% change year-on-year -20.53% -1.72% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £68.75
25th Percentile - £82.50 £74.70
Median hourly rate - £85.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.97% -
75th Percentile - £87.50 £78.29
90th Percentile - - £78.82
England median hourly rate - £85.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - +8.97% -

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 925 580 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.97% 16.03% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 333 492
10th Percentile £300 £250 £270
25th Percentile £399 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £544 £588 £583
90th Percentile £635 £656 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.67 £17.74
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £50.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% - +75.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £72.13 £75.64 £78.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £31.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +53.23% -32.87% +37.85%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the North of England

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Progress Chef.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the North of England

Progress Chef
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Progress Chef.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West -26 18 £409 -34.52% 13
Yorkshire -46 4 £475 -20.47% 8
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (63.64%) JBoss
2 11 (50.00%) Apache
3 9 (40.91%) IIS
3 9 (40.91%) WebSphere
4 8 (36.36%) iPlanet
4 8 (36.36%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) AWS
2 14 (63.64%) OpenShift
3 3 (13.64%) Serverless
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Apigee
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Kong
5 1 (4.55%) NuGet
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Kerberos
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 2 (9.09%) SSL
4 1 (4.55%) DNS
4 1 (4.55%) HTTP
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle Database
2 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 2 (9.09%) MySQL
4 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (77.27%) Jenkins
2 15 (68.18%) Git
3 12 (54.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (22.73%) GitLab
6 4 (18.18%) JIRA
6 4 (18.18%) SonarQube
7 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
8 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
8 2 (9.09%) Gradle
9 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
9 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
9 1 (4.55%) JMeter
9 1 (4.55%) JUnit
9 1 (4.55%) Maven
9 1 (4.55%) Mockito
9 1 (4.55%) Selenium
9 1 (4.55%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) OAuth
1 9 (40.91%) OpenID
1 9 (40.91%) SAML
2 8 (36.36%) LDAP
3 6 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
5 3 (13.64%) Kafka
6 1 (4.55%) JSON
6 1 (4.55%) Middleware
6 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (4.55%) REST
6 1 (4.55%) Spring
6 1 (4.55%) XML
6 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Linux
2 14 (63.64%) Windows
3 8 (36.36%) Unix
4 7 (31.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) DevOps
2 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 6 (27.27%) Task Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Analytics
6 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) DevSecOps
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (13.64%) Microservices
7 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
7 3 (13.64%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Groovy
2 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 6 (27.27%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) Bash
4 3 (13.64%) Java
4 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Docker
2 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (36.36%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) CA Single Sign-On
1 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
2 8 (36.36%) CA Wily
2 8 (36.36%) Tivoli
3 5 (22.73%) Puppet
3 5 (22.73%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (18.18%) Kibana
4 4 (18.18%) Terraform
5 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.55%) Grafana
6 1 (4.55%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Splunk
2 12 (54.55%) AppDynamics
3 10 (45.45%) IBM
3 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 10 (45.45%) Oracle
4 9 (40.91%) Broadcom
5 3 (13.64%) Cloudera
5 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.09%) Cribl.io
7 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 1 (4.55%) LogicMonitor