Progress Chef Contracts in the UK excluding London

Chef
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 272 340 329
Rank change year-on-year +68 -11 +26
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 64 59 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.28% 0.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.40% 2.51% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 52 85
10th Percentile £367 £402 £414
25th Percentile £402 £481 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £638 £674 £680
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.75%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Progress Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the UK excluding London

Progress Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK excluding London

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the UK excluding London

Progress Chef
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK excluding London

Progress Chef
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +22 29 £450 -20.88% 55
North West +25 23 £475 -11.42% 34
South West +49 13 £575 +4.55% 16
South East +47 9 £500 -14.35% 41
Scotland +18 9 £538 +14.97% 10
Yorkshire +3 6 £408 -32.98% 19
Midlands +18 4 £475 +31.03% 28
East Midlands +7 4 £475 +32.22% 10
East of England +29 1 £550 -18.52% 17
Progress Chef
UK

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (17.19%) Confluence
2 9 (14.06%) JBoss
3 1 (1.56%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.63%) AWS
2 16 (25.00%) Azure
3 15 (23.44%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.81%) Serverless
5 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.13%) GCP
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.13%) NuGet
7 2 (3.13%) PaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Firewall
1 4 (6.25%) SAN
2 2 (3.13%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) NAS
2 2 (3.13%) SSH
3 1 (1.56%) DHCP
3 1 (1.56%) DNS
3 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.56%) SNA
3 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.06%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.13%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.13%) MySQL
6 2 (3.13%) Power Query
6 2 (3.13%) Redis
7 1 (1.56%) DB2
7 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (53.13%) Jenkins
2 31 (48.44%) Git
3 25 (39.06%) JIRA
4 13 (20.31%) CA Release Automation
5 12 (18.75%) Bitbucket
5 12 (18.75%) SonarQube
6 9 (14.06%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (14.06%) Selenium
6 9 (14.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (14.06%) TeamCity
7 7 (10.94%) GitLab
8 4 (6.25%) Gradle
8 4 (6.25%) HP UFT
8 4 (6.25%) IntelliJ
8 4 (6.25%) JUnit
8 4 (6.25%) Maven
8 4 (6.25%) NetBeans
8 4 (6.25%) Subversion
9 2 (3.13%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.13%) JMeter
General
1 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Finance
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Python Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Administrator
7 3 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Unix Administrator
8 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) REST
1 13 (20.31%) Spring Boot
2 11 (17.19%) SOAP
3 9 (14.06%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (12.50%) Kafka
5 5 (7.81%) Spring
6 4 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 4 (6.25%) J2EE
6 4 (6.25%) Spring Integration
6 4 (6.25%) Spring MVC
6 4 (6.25%) Web Services
7 3 (4.69%) Ajax
7 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.69%) Bootstrap
7 3 (4.69%) CSS
7 3 (4.69%) HTML
7 3 (4.69%) HTML5
7 3 (4.69%) jQuery
7 3 (4.69%) JSON
7 3 (4.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.81%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.69%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.13%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.13%) PKI
4 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (59.38%) Linux
2 26 (40.63%) Windows
3 14 (21.88%) Unix
4 12 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (18.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (15.63%) AIX
6 5 (7.81%) Solaris
7 4 (6.25%) CentOS
7 4 (6.25%) HPUX
7 4 (6.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 31 (48.44%) CI/CD
3 28 (43.75%) DevOps
4 27 (42.19%) Deployment Automation
5 20 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 18 (28.13%) Microservices
7 17 (26.56%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (25.00%) Agile
9 15 (23.44%) Migration
10 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (20.31%) Validation
12 12 (18.75%) Service Management
13 11 (17.19%) Reverse Engineering
14 10 (15.63%) Code Quality
14 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
14 10 (15.63%) NsoIT
14 10 (15.63%) System Testing
15 9 (14.06%) Build Automation
16 8 (12.50%) Task Automation
16 8 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (73.44%) Python
2 31 (48.44%) Bash
3 26 (40.63%) PowerShell
4 14 (21.88%) Perl
5 12 (18.75%) Java
6 7 (10.94%) SQL
7 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.81%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.69%) Ruby
8 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.13%) Bicep
9 2 (3.13%) C#
9 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (3.13%) Korn
10 1 (1.56%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.56%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (1.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (29.69%) SC Cleared
1 19 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.63%) CCNP
2 10 (15.63%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (15.63%) OCA
2 10 (15.63%) Oracle Certification
2 10 (15.63%) RHCA
2 10 (15.63%) RHCE
2 10 (15.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.56%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (31.25%) Docker
2 14 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (17.19%) Active Directory
4 4 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.13%) KVM
6 1 (1.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (71.88%) Ansible
2 37 (57.81%) Puppet
3 24 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 17 (26.56%) Terraform
5 10 (15.63%) vCenter Server
6 9 (14.06%) Kibana
7 4 (6.25%) Grafana
7 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
7 4 (6.25%) SCCM
8 3 (4.69%) vRealize
9 2 (3.13%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.56%) Nagios
10 1 (1.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (31.25%) VMware
2 16 (25.00%) Oracle
2 16 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 12 (18.75%) Cisco
4 11 (17.19%) Splunk
5 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
6 9 (14.06%) AppDynamics
7 7 (10.94%) Atlassian
8 4 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (6.25%) Cloudera
9 3 (4.69%) CyberArk
9 3 (4.69%) HP
9 3 (4.69%) IBM
10 2 (3.13%) 3PAR
10 2 (3.13%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (3.13%) Brocade
10 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
10 2 (3.13%) EMC
10 2 (3.13%) ForgeRock
10 2 (3.13%) LogicMonitor