Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in the South West

Chef
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 116 150
Rank change year-on-year -20 +34 +16
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 2 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.075% 0.32% 0.063%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.50% 1.78% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - - £485
25th Percentile - £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile - £588 £600
90th Percentile - £595 £615
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -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 404 338 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.16% 17.98% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 228 308
10th Percentile £350 £347 £271
25th Percentile £450 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £665
90th Percentile £738 £734 £720
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £53.85 - -
25th Percentile £74.63 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £86.00 £16.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +437.50% -60.00% -38.46%
75th Percentile £119.00 £70.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - £72.66 £78.00
England median hourly rate £48.36 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.49% -33.75% -19.70%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the South West

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Progress Chef
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 7 February 2026. 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
Bristol -5 2 £525 -12.50% 2
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform