Progress Chef Contracts in the North West

Chef
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 97 122 120
Rank change year-on-year +25 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 23 15 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.17% 0.54% 1.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.49% 5.12% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 32
10th Percentile £368 £416 £325
25th Percentile £393 £469 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £536 £487
Median % change year-on-year -11.42% +10.03% -7.17%
75th Percentile £518 £582 £621
90th Percentile £639 - £680
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 307 293 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 10.64% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 217 377
10th Percentile £250 £231 £325
25th Percentile £382 £375 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £548 £584 £626
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 45
10th Percentile £45.45 £16.67 £16.85
25th Percentile £51.38 - £22.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £58.44 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.95 £91.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +4 18 £475 -9.09% 6
Manchester +18 2 £638 +15.91% 16
Cumbria - 2 - -
Merseyside - 1 - - 2
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England

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (21.74%) JBoss
2 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) OpenShift
3 4 (17.39%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
1 2 (8.70%) NAS
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) SSH
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
1 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.35%) DB2
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Jenkins
2 11 (47.83%) JIRA
3 10 (43.48%) Git
4 7 (30.43%) CA Release Automation
5 6 (26.09%) GitLab
5 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
6 5 (21.74%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (21.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (21.74%) TeamCity
7 3 (13.04%) Selenium
8 2 (8.70%) Gradle
8 2 (8.70%) HP UFT
8 2 (8.70%) IntelliJ
8 2 (8.70%) JUnit
8 2 (8.70%) Maven
8 2 (8.70%) NetBeans
8 2 (8.70%) Subversion
General
1 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Senior
2 3 (13.04%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Developer
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) ForgeRock Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Python Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Unix Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Database Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Software Development Team Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 6 (26.09%) Kafka
3 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.70%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.70%) J2EE
4 2 (8.70%) Spring
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Integration
4 2 (8.70%) Spring MVC
4 2 (8.70%) Web Services
5 1 (4.35%) Ajax
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
5 1 (4.35%) CSS
5 1 (4.35%) HTML
5 1 (4.35%) HTML5
5 1 (4.35%) jQuery
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
5 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.70%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (8.70%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (43.48%) Linux
2 7 (30.43%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.04%) Unix
5 2 (8.70%) AIX
5 2 (8.70%) CentOS
5 2 (8.70%) HPUX
5 2 (8.70%) Solaris
5 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 10 (43.48%) DevOps
2 10 (43.48%) Microservices
3 9 (39.13%) Migration
4 8 (34.78%) Configuration Management
5 7 (30.43%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (26.09%) Code Quality
6 6 (26.09%) Task Automation
6 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (21.74%) Build Automation
7 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (21.74%) Observability
8 4 (17.39%) Data Migration
8 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (13.04%) Analytics
9 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
9 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (13.04%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
2 8 (34.78%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) Perl
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) KVM
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Ansible
2 10 (43.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (21.74%) Kibana
3 5 (21.74%) Puppet
4 4 (17.39%) Terraform
5 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Red Hat
2 6 (26.09%) Splunk
3 5 (21.74%) AppDynamics
3 5 (21.74%) Oracle
4 4 (17.39%) Cloudera
5 2 (8.70%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (8.70%) ForgeRock
5 2 (8.70%) VMware
6 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) Imperva
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft