Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Chef
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 43 -
Rank change year-on-year -51 - -
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.32% 1.31% -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.00% 4.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £378 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.45% - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £378 -
% change year-on-year +32.45% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 300 94 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.33% 30.72% 27.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 66 57
10th Percentile £366 £359 £224
25th Percentile £419 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +3.09% -23.92%
75th Percentile £530 £620 £564
90th Percentile £555 £688 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £518 £433
% change year-on-year -6.86% +19.65% -29.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Apigee
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) API Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) SRDF
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) logstash
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Broadcom
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) TOWER Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk