Progress Chef Contracts in the South West

Chef
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 98 147 155
Rank change year-on-year +49 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 13 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.77% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.26% 2.46% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 9
10th Percentile - £475 £498
25th Percentile £563 £519 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £613
90th Percentile £648 £645 £678
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

All Systems Management Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 305 407 605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 18.18% 12.72% 16.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 312 499
10th Percentile £293 £205 £324
25th Percentile £440 £391 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £591 £644
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 21
10th Percentile £31.15 - £53.75
25th Percentile £56.13 - £60.70
Median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%
75th Percentile £79.77 £72.85 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.68 £76.28 £86.00
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the South West

Progress Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +42 11 £575 -4.17% 1
Bristol - 1 £543 - 5
Somerset - 1 - -
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 7 (53.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) SSH
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Bitbucket
1 11 (84.62%) Git
2 10 (76.92%) Jenkins
3 7 (53.85%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) REST
1 11 (84.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 11 (84.62%) Deployment Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (84.62%) Reverse Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) Validation
3 10 (76.92%) NsoIT
3 10 (76.92%) Service Management
3 10 (76.92%) System Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
7 1 (7.69%) High Availability
7 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Bash
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) SC Cleared
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (76.92%) CCNP
2 10 (76.92%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (76.92%) OCA
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle Certification
2 10 (76.92%) RHCA
2 10 (76.92%) RHCE
2 10 (76.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (100.00%) Ansible
2 12 (92.31%) Puppet
3 10 (76.92%) vCenter Server
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat