Progress Chef Contracts in the North of England

Chef
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 156 171
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 +32
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 25 21 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.76% 0.45% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.17% 4.05% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 27
10th Percentile £351 £410 £326
25th Percentile £372 £458 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £565 £485
Median % change year-on-year -29.65% +16.55% -7.67%
75th Percentile £488 £624 £592
90th Percentile £502 £645 £677
England median daily rate £550 £550 £638
% change year-on-year - -13.73% +4.08%

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 600 519 845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.19% 11.21% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 361 605
10th Percentile £259 £235 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -12.04% +2.86%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £631
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 21 50
10th Percentile £62.54 £16.79 £16.25
25th Percentile - £17.72 £22.20
Median hourly rate £63.40 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +181.78% -35.71% +75.00%
75th Percentile £84.88 £48.75 £49.49
90th Percentile £89.15 £82.50 £63.88
England median hourly rate £28.50 £26.38 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.03% -49.75% +144.19%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the North of England

Progress Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the North of England

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 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the North of England

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 24 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
North West +23 20 £402 -9.66% 18
Yorkshire +1 5 £390 -37.30% 2
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (20.00%) JBoss
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) NuGet
7 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 2 (8.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.00%) NAS
2 2 (8.00%) SSH
3 1 (4.00%) DHCP
3 1 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) DB2
3 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Git
2 11 (44.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (44.00%) JIRA
3 7 (28.00%) CA Release Automation
3 7 (28.00%) SonarQube
4 6 (24.00%) Selenium
5 5 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (20.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (8.00%) GitLab
6 2 (8.00%) Gradle
6 2 (8.00%) HP UFT
6 2 (8.00%) IntelliJ
6 2 (8.00%) JUnit
6 2 (8.00%) Maven
6 2 (8.00%) NetBeans
6 2 (8.00%) Subversion
6 2 (8.00%) TestNG
7 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (4.00%) JMeter
General
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Administrator
4 1 (4.00%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Database Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.00%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (12.00%) RESTful
4 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.00%) J2EE
4 2 (8.00%) Kafka
4 2 (8.00%) pytest
4 2 (8.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Integration
4 2 (8.00%) Spring MVC
4 2 (8.00%) Web Services
5 1 (4.00%) Ajax
5 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.00%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.00%) CSS
5 1 (4.00%) HTML
5 1 (4.00%) JSON
5 1 (4.00%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (8.00%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (8.00%) PKI
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 7 (28.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (20.00%) Unix
4 3 (12.00%) AIX
4 3 (12.00%) Solaris
5 2 (8.00%) CentOS
5 2 (8.00%) HPUX
5 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 11 (44.00%) Configuration Management
4 9 (36.00%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (36.00%) Migration
5 8 (32.00%) Microservices
6 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
6 6 (24.00%) Task Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Build Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (20.00%) TDD
8 4 (16.00%) Analytics
8 4 (16.00%) Change Management
8 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
8 4 (16.00%) High Availability
8 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) Bash
3 9 (36.00%) Java
3 9 (36.00%) Perl
4 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (16.00%) SQL
6 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (12.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (8.00%) Ruby
8 1 (4.00%) ActionScript
8 1 (4.00%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (4.00%) Korn
8 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.00%) KVM
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Ansible
1 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (40.00%) Puppet
3 5 (20.00%) Kibana
4 4 (16.00%) Terraform
5 2 (8.00%) vRealize
6 1 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (4.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (28.00%) Splunk
3 5 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.00%) Cloudera
4 4 (16.00%) VMware
5 2 (8.00%) 3PAR
5 2 (8.00%) Brocade
5 2 (8.00%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco
5 2 (8.00%) EMC
5 2 (8.00%) ForgeRock
5 2 (8.00%) HP
5 2 (8.00%) IBM
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.00%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (4.00%) Imperva
6 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor