Progress Chef Contracts in the UK excluding London

Chef
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Progress Chef skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Progress Chef over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 323 347
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 -68
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 57 134 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.45% 3.69% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 85 125
10th Percentile £401 £414 £351
25th Percentile £484 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +14.13%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £619
90th Percentile £676 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -32.35% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year - +12.75% -17.07%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Progress Chef is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,329 3,632 4,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.27% 15.09% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,663 3,006
10th Percentile £211 £275 £231
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 139 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.79
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £14.44
Median hourly rate £38.50 £43.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +118.75% -10.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £36.94
90th Percentile £70.50 £75.10 £51.54
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.39
% change year-on-year -47.83% +156.81% -44.03%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +15 26 £569 +16.70% 11
North West +1 15 £536 +10.03% 4
Yorkshire +28 11 £608 +31.46% 4
South West +13 10 £550 - 5
South East -2 8 £584 -6.60% 10
Midlands +27 6 £356 -28.62% 9
East Midlands - 5 £356 - 2
Scotland +8 4 £468 -18.13% 8
East of England +4 2 £675 +29.81% 3
West Midlands +26 1 £750 +50.38% 7
Wales +13 1 £690 +18.71% 5
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 7 (12.28%) Confluence
2 5 (8.77%) JBoss
3 1 (1.75%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 44 (77.19%) AWS
2 24 (42.11%) Azure
3 16 (28.07%) OpenShift
4 12 (21.05%) GitHub
5 9 (15.79%) GCP
6 7 (12.28%) Serverless
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (10.53%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.53%) Apigee
7 6 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.53%) Kong
8 5 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (7.02%) SaaS
10 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.26%) Datadog
11 2 (3.51%) Azure AKS
12 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.04%) DNS
1 8 (14.04%) Firewall
2 7 (12.28%) AMQP
2 7 (12.28%) DSL
2 7 (12.28%) TCP/IP
3 6 (10.53%) HTTP
3 6 (10.53%) Network Security
3 6 (10.53%) VPN
4 2 (3.51%) DHCP
5 1 (1.75%) Skype
5 1 (1.75%) SNA
5 1 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) Relational Database
2 11 (19.30%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (14.04%) InfluxDB
4 7 (12.28%) MySQL
4 7 (12.28%) RDBMS
5 6 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (10.53%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (75.44%) Jenkins
2 19 (33.33%) JIRA
3 15 (26.32%) Git
4 12 (21.05%) GitLab
5 10 (17.54%) SonarQube
6 7 (12.28%) CircleCI
6 7 (12.28%) TeamCity
6 7 (12.28%) Travis CI
7 6 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (10.53%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (8.77%) AppScan
8 5 (8.77%) Burp Suite
8 5 (8.77%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (8.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.51%) Maven
10 1 (1.75%) NUnit
10 1 (1.75%) Selenium
10 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 11 (19.30%) Finance
5 3 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Site Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Windows Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Python Developer
6 5 (8.77%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Support Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Architect
9 2 (3.51%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Data Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior
9 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.75%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.07%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.28%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (10.53%) JSON
3 6 (10.53%) XML
3 6 (10.53%) YAML
4 5 (8.77%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.02%) Django
5 4 (7.02%) FastAPI
5 4 (7.02%) Flask
6 2 (3.51%) .NET
6 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.51%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.75%) Kafka
7 1 (1.75%) Middleware
7 1 (1.75%) Node.js
7 1 (1.75%) OAuth
7 1 (1.75%) React
7 1 (1.75%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) Public Cloud
2 7 (12.28%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (12.28%) Virtual Team
3 6 (10.53%) Data Structures
4 5 (8.77%) Private Cloud
5 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
6 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
7 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.75%) PKI
8 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (49.12%) Linux
2 20 (35.09%) Windows
3 12 (21.05%) Unix
4 7 (12.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.75%) CentOS
6 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.75%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (73.68%) DevOps
2 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
3 20 (35.09%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 16 (28.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (28.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 15 (26.32%) Containerisation
7 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (21.05%) Agile
9 11 (19.30%) Observability
9 11 (19.30%) Project Management
10 10 (17.54%) API Development
10 10 (17.54%) Task Automation
10 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
11 8 (14.04%) Knowledge Transfer
11 8 (14.04%) Service Management
12 7 (12.28%) Collaborative Working
12 7 (12.28%) DevSecOps
12 7 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (12.28%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 40 (70.18%) Python
2 20 (35.09%) Bash
2 20 (35.09%) PowerShell
3 11 (19.30%) Java
3 11 (19.30%) Ruby
4 9 (15.79%) Perl
4 9 (15.79%) SQL
5 8 (14.04%) C
5 8 (14.04%) Go
6 6 (10.53%) C++
6 6 (10.53%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.51%) C#
7 2 (3.51%) PHP
7 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.75%) Groovy
8 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.04%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Linux+ Certification
5 1 (1.75%) LPIC
5 1 (1.75%) RHCE
5 1 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 35 (61.40%) Docker
2 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.75%) KVM
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (85.96%) Ansible
2 39 (68.42%) Terraform
3 36 (63.16%) Kubernetes
4 32 (56.14%) Puppet
5 22 (38.60%) Prometheus
6 21 (36.84%) Grafana
7 13 (22.81%) Docker Swarm
8 11 (19.30%) Kibana
9 7 (12.28%) CFEngine
9 7 (12.28%) PowerBroker
10 6 (10.53%) logstash
11 5 (8.77%) Graylog
11 5 (8.77%) HP Fortify
11 5 (8.77%) Nessus
11 5 (8.77%) WebInspect
12 4 (7.02%) Nagios
13 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
13 1 (1.75%) vRealize
13 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Splunk
2 8 (14.04%) Atlassian
3 6 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 6 (10.53%) VMware
4 5 (8.77%) AppDynamics
4 5 (8.77%) Checkmarx
4 5 (8.77%) Veracode
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
6 3 (5.26%) New Relic
7 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.51%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.75%) BMC
8 1 (1.75%) Dell
8 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.75%) Google
8 1 (1.75%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.75%) Oracle
8 1 (1.75%) Remedy
8 1 (1.75%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.75%) Veeam