Progress Chef Contracts in the South East

Chef
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 150 197 192
Rank change year-on-year +47 -5 +19
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 9 8 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.30% 0.14% 0.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.47% 1.12% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 16
10th Percentile £399 £512 -
25th Percentile £432 £525 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £584 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% -6.60% +2.04%
75th Percentile £572 £664 £678
90th Percentile £611 £679 £694
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 364 715 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.09% 12.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 504 593
10th Percentile £318 £209 £308
25th Percentile £425 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £543
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £625
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 20
10th Percentile £20.77 £14.00 £18.27
25th Percentile £21.98 £23.63 £47.31
Median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
Median % change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%
75th Percentile £25.99 £50.00 £74.03
90th Percentile £27.20 £66.00 £76.31
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +47 6 £494 -17.02% 6
Berkshire +34 4 £563 +2.27% 3
Hampshire +23 3 £525 -10.06% 4
Oxfordshire - 2 £488 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (22.22%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (22.22%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Unix DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) AIX
3 4 (44.44%) Unix
4 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (22.22%) CentOS
5 2 (22.22%) HPUX
5 2 (22.22%) Solaris
5 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Build Automation
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Coaching
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Server Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Bash
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Korn
4 1 (11.11%) Ruby
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Ansible
1 7 (77.78%) Puppet
2 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (33.33%) Terraform
4 2 (22.22%) Kibana
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (22.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) AppDynamics
3 2 (22.22%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) HP