Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in the North West

Chef
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 98 83
Rank change year-on-year -34 -15 +27
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 17 25 57
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.68% 1.15% 2.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.24% 8.71% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 35
10th Percentile £302 £356 £487
25th Percentile £305 £439 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% +13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £482 £639 £583
90th Percentile £570 £656 £607
England median daily rate £453 £571 £580
% change year-on-year -20.70% -1.51% -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 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 401 287 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.01% 13.24% 15.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 154 279
10th Percentile £300 £250 £300
25th Percentile £358 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -0.05% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £579 £582
90th Percentile £650 £656 £659
England median daily rate £512 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 45
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.73
25th Percentile £17.38 £24.18 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £43.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -6.89% -7.30%
75th Percentile £67.25 £57.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.50 £78.00
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 North West

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Progress Chef
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 19 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
Cheshire -16 12 £353 -39.91% 3
Manchester -21 4 £569 -10.82% 2
Merseyside - 1 £300 -
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (76.47%) JBoss
2 10 (58.82%) Apache
3 9 (52.94%) IIS
3 9 (52.94%) WebSphere
4 8 (47.06%) iPlanet
4 8 (47.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) OpenShift
2 13 (76.47%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle Database
2 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Jenkins
2 13 (76.47%) Git
3 11 (64.71%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (64.71%) CA Release Automation
3 11 (64.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (17.65%) GitLab
4 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
4 3 (17.65%) TeamCity
5 2 (11.76%) JIRA
6 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (5.88%) Gradle
6 1 (5.88%) JUnit
6 1 (5.88%) Mockito
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) OAuth
1 9 (52.94%) OpenID
1 9 (52.94%) SAML
2 8 (47.06%) LDAP
3 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
5 1 (5.88%) Middleware
5 1 (5.88%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Linux
2 13 (76.47%) Windows
3 8 (47.06%) Unix
4 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
5 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) DevOps
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (41.18%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
7 3 (17.65%) Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Change Management
7 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
7 3 (17.65%) Microservices
7 3 (17.65%) Migration
7 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
7 3 (17.65%) Runbook
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) Agile
8 2 (11.76%) Build Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (11.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Groovy
2 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) Docker
2 11 (64.71%) Active Directory
3 8 (47.06%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (47.06%) CA Wily
2 8 (47.06%) Tivoli
3 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
4 5 (29.41%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (17.65%) Ansible
5 3 (17.65%) Kibana
6 1 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Splunk
2 11 (64.71%) AppDynamics
3 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
4 9 (52.94%) Broadcom
4 9 (52.94%) IBM
4 9 (52.94%) Oracle
5 3 (17.65%) Cloudera
5 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
6 2 (11.76%) Cribl.io