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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 308 325
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +52
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 62 80 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.82% 3.33% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 66 63
10th Percentile £330 £401 £488
25th Percentile £372 £458 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £550 £592
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% -7.09% +9.63%
75th Percentile £564 £619 £675
90th Percentile £588 £650 £738
UK median daily rate £541 £550 £632
% change year-on-year -1.59% -12.97% +5.33%
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

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 2,202 2,403 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.77% 12.08% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,481 1,745 2,319
10th Percentile £235 £250 £286
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £620
90th Percentile £649 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £508 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -2.03% -5.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 50 110
10th Percentile £18.11 £16.23 £17.38
25th Percentile £20.25 £20.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £57.00 £39.25 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year +45.22% -14.84% +130.45%
75th Percentile £67.00 £52.25 £65.25
90th Percentile £82.99 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +25.81% -46.09% +150.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -5 26 £393 -31.35% 8
North West +13 21 £393 -13.63% 4
South West +35 12 £575 +0.88% 8
Scotland +3 7 £525 +28.05% 4
East of England +12 6 £366 -45.74%
Midlands -29 6 £506 +7.66% 10
South East +27 5 £525 -9.79% 5
Yorkshire -8 5 £390 -37.30% 4
East Midlands -10 4 £475 +6.74% 7
West Midlands -4 2 £550 -5.50% 3
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 14 (22.58%) JBoss
2 11 (17.74%) Confluence
3 3 (4.84%) Apache
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.61%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.61%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) AWS
2 15 (24.19%) OpenShift
3 10 (16.13%) Azure
4 6 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
5 4 (6.45%) Serverless
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.23%) GitHub
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.61%) NuGet
8 1 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Firewall
2 5 (8.06%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) HTTP
3 2 (3.23%) SAN
4 1 (1.61%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.61%) SNA
4 1 (1.61%) SSH
4 1 (1.61%) SSL
4 1 (1.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) Relational Database
2 12 (19.35%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (19.35%) RDBMS
3 8 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
6 4 (6.45%) MySQL
6 4 (6.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.84%) MariaDB
7 3 (4.84%) Power Query
7 3 (4.84%) Redis
8 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.61%) DB2
9 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (54.84%) Jenkins
2 33 (53.23%) Git
3 32 (51.61%) JIRA
4 17 (27.42%) TeamCity
5 16 (25.81%) CA Release Automation
6 15 (24.19%) SonarQube
7 14 (22.58%) Bitbucket
8 13 (20.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 12 (19.35%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (12.90%) Selenium
11 7 (11.29%) GitLab
12 4 (6.45%) Gradle
12 4 (6.45%) HP UFT
12 4 (6.45%) IntelliJ
12 4 (6.45%) JUnit
12 4 (6.45%) Maven
12 4 (6.45%) NetBeans
12 4 (6.45%) Subversion
13 2 (3.23%) TestNG
14 1 (1.61%) JMeter
General
1 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.68%) Finance
3 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.61%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (8.06%) Administrator
4 5 (8.06%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (4.84%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.84%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.23%) CyberArk Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Database Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) ForgeRock Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Lead
7 2 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) Spring Boot
2 13 (20.97%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (20.97%) REST
3 11 (17.74%) SOAP
4 5 (8.06%) Kafka
4 5 (8.06%) Spring
5 4 (6.45%) Hibernate
5 4 (6.45%) J2EE
5 4 (6.45%) JSON
5 4 (6.45%) Spring Integration
5 4 (6.45%) Spring MVC
5 4 (6.45%) Web Services
6 3 (4.84%) Ajax
6 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.84%) CSS
6 3 (4.84%) HTML
6 3 (4.84%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (4.84%) jQuery
6 3 (4.84%) Node.js
6 3 (4.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.84%) Mainframe
3 3 (4.84%) PKI
3 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) EMC VMAX
4 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Insider Threat
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (58.06%) Linux
2 28 (45.16%) Windows
3 16 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (19.35%) Windows Server
5 5 (8.06%) Unix
6 2 (3.23%) AIX
7 1 (1.61%) CentOS
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (1.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) CI/CD
2 33 (53.23%) DevOps
3 30 (48.39%) Deployment Automation
4 22 (35.48%) Configuration Management
5 19 (30.65%) Microservices
6 18 (29.03%) Migration
7 16 (25.81%) Agile
7 16 (25.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 16 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (22.58%) Code Quality
9 13 (20.97%) Validation
10 12 (19.35%) Build Automation
10 12 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
11 11 (17.74%) Analytics
11 11 (17.74%) Reverse Engineering
11 11 (17.74%) Service Management
12 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (16.13%) NsoIT
12 10 (16.13%) System Testing
13 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (79.03%) Python
2 29 (46.77%) Bash
3 26 (41.94%) PowerShell
4 18 (29.03%) Java
5 15 (24.19%) Perl
6 8 (12.90%) SQL
7 7 (11.29%) Shell Script
8 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.84%) Bicep
9 3 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (4.84%) Ruby
9 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.23%) C#
11 1 (1.61%) ActionScript
11 1 (1.61%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (1.61%) C++
11 1 (1.61%) Go
11 1 (1.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) CCNP
3 10 (16.13%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (16.13%) OCA
3 10 (16.13%) Oracle Certification
3 10 (16.13%) RHCA
3 10 (16.13%) RHCE
3 10 (16.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (4.84%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) Degree
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.61%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (35.48%) Docker
2 16 (25.81%) Active Directory
3 11 (17.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (61.29%) Ansible
2 33 (53.23%) Puppet
3 26 (41.94%) Kubernetes
4 17 (27.42%) Terraform
5 13 (20.97%) Kibana
6 10 (16.13%) vCenter Server
7 5 (8.06%) Salt
8 4 (6.45%) Grafana
8 4 (6.45%) Prometheus
9 3 (4.84%) vRealize
10 1 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.61%) Nagios
10 1 (1.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (29.03%) Oracle
2 15 (24.19%) Red Hat
2 15 (24.19%) Splunk
2 15 (24.19%) VMware
3 13 (20.97%) AppDynamics
4 12 (19.35%) Cisco
5 9 (14.52%) Microsoft
6 8 (12.90%) Cloudera
7 7 (11.29%) Atlassian
8 5 (8.06%) IBM
8 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
9 4 (6.45%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (4.84%) CyberArk
11 2 (3.23%) 3PAR
11 2 (3.23%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (3.23%) Brocade
11 2 (3.23%) EMC
11 2 (3.23%) ForgeRock
11 2 (3.23%) HP
12 1 (1.61%) LogicMonitor