Progress Chef Contract Job Trends

Chef
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 421 437
Rank change year-on-year -90 +16 -52
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 76 111 164
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.36% 0.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.25% 2.37% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 65 125
10th Percentile £358 £366 £403
25th Percentile £405 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -1.08%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £650
90th Percentile £629 £656 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.45% +5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £85.00 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,074 4,691 5,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.43% 15.28% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,197 3,030 3,999
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £637
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 59 161
10th Percentile £18.08 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.05 £21.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +105.88% -44.78% +8.66%
75th Percentile £63.32 £59.38 £61.25
90th Percentile £82.20 £70.89 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.25 £23.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +131.52% -50.19% +11.18%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the UK

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Progress Chef.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Top 13 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England -79 69 £525 -4.55% 24
UK excluding London -73 49 £525 -4.55% 24
Work from Home -41 24 £470 -7.03% 6
London -45 19 £525 -3.45% 6
West Midlands -31 17 £550 +10.00% 4
Midlands -39 17 £550 +10.00% 5
South East -15 14 £398 -16.32% 3
North of England -83 13 £471 -17.73% 5
North West -44 10 £462 -22.03% 5
Yorkshire -59 3 £525 -8.30%
Scotland -4 2 £362 +0.98% 3
South West -19 2 £525 -8.70% 8
East of England - 1 £475 -

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (9.21%) Apache
1 7 (9.21%) JBoss
2 6 (7.89%) IIS
2 6 (7.89%) iPlanet
2 6 (7.89%) WebSphere
2 6 (7.89%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (5.26%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 65 (85.53%) AWS
2 42 (55.26%) OpenShift
3 27 (35.53%) GitHub
4 24 (31.58%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (26.32%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (25.00%) Amazon S3
7 18 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (23.68%) Azure
8 14 (18.42%) Serverless
9 12 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (15.79%) GCP
10 9 (11.84%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (10.53%) Datadog
12 7 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (9.21%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (7.89%) Azure AKS
14 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 4 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.21%) Kerberos
2 6 (7.89%) VPN
3 5 (6.58%) DNS
4 4 (5.26%) Firewall
4 4 (5.26%) Network Security
4 4 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.63%) DHCP
5 2 (2.63%) HTTP
6 1 (1.32%) AMQP
6 1 (1.32%) Anycast
6 1 (1.32%) BGP
6 1 (1.32%) DMVPN
6 1 (1.32%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.32%) Internet
6 1 (1.32%) IPsec
6 1 (1.32%) MPLS
6 1 (1.32%) NGFW
6 1 (1.32%) OSPF
6 1 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (30.26%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.89%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.58%) InfluxDB
6 4 (5.26%) MySQL
7 3 (3.95%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 52 (68.42%) Jenkins
2 25 (32.89%) Sonatype Nexus
3 18 (23.68%) JUnit
4 17 (22.37%) Git
4 17 (22.37%) GitLab
5 14 (18.42%) Cucumber
5 14 (18.42%) JMeter
6 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (7.89%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (7.89%) Maven
7 5 (6.58%) CircleCI
7 5 (6.58%) Gradle
8 4 (5.26%) Artifactory
8 4 (5.26%) Cypress.io
8 4 (5.26%) Postman
8 4 (5.26%) Selenium
8 4 (5.26%) Snyk
8 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 21 (27.63%) Finance
2 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 16 (21.05%) Site Engineer
4 10 (13.16%) Developer
4 10 (13.16%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Architect
7 4 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Java Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Administrator
8 3 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Kafka Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Linux Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.74%) Kafka
2 14 (18.42%) Spring
3 13 (17.11%) Hibernate
4 11 (14.47%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (9.21%) LDAP
6 6 (7.89%) OAuth
6 6 (7.89%) OpenID
6 6 (7.89%) REST
6 6 (7.89%) SAML
6 6 (7.89%) YAML
7 5 (6.58%) JSON
7 5 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (5.26%) AWS CDK
9 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.32%) Flask
9 1 (1.32%) Hugging Face
9 1 (1.32%) Node.js
9 1 (1.32%) RESTful
9 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
9 1 (1.32%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.63%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) CMDB
4 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.32%) PKI
4 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.32%) SCADA
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (84.21%) Linux
2 15 (19.74%) Windows
3 12 (15.79%) Unix
4 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.26%) CentOS
5 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.63%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.32%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (76.32%) CI/CD
2 39 (51.32%) Configuration Management
3 32 (42.11%) DevOps
4 28 (36.84%) Containerisation
5 25 (32.89%) Observability
6 23 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (30.26%) Task Automation
7 21 (27.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 16 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (14.47%) Agile
12 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
13 8 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (10.53%) DevSecOps
13 8 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
14 7 (9.21%) Identity Access Management
14 7 (9.21%) Root Cause Analysis
15 6 (7.89%) High Availability
15 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) Python
2 22 (28.95%) Java
2 22 (28.95%) Shell Script
3 19 (25.00%) SQL
4 16 (21.05%) Bash
5 8 (10.53%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.21%) Groovy
7 4 (5.26%) Go
8 3 (3.95%) Perl
9 1 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (1.32%) Lisp
9 1 (1.32%) R
9 1 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.42%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.58%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.58%) Degree
5 4 (5.26%) RHCE
5 4 (5.26%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) COBIT
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (56.58%) Docker
2 11 (14.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (10.53%) Active Directory
4 6 (7.89%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (5.26%) KVM
6 1 (1.32%) Lustre
6 1 (1.32%) NFS
Systems Management
1 65 (85.53%) Ansible
2 41 (53.95%) Kubernetes
3 39 (51.32%) Terraform
4 30 (39.47%) Puppet
5 24 (31.58%) Prometheus
6 22 (28.95%) Grafana
7 6 (7.89%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (7.89%) CA Wily
7 6 (7.89%) Tivoli
8 5 (6.58%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (5.26%) Podman
10 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.32%) Kibana
11 1 (1.32%) logstash
11 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (1.32%) Nessus
11 1 (1.32%) Oracle ZFS
11 1 (1.32%) Salt
11 1 (1.32%) SELinux
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Splunk
2 18 (23.68%) VMware
3 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.21%) AppDynamics
4 7 (9.21%) IBM
4 7 (9.21%) Oracle
4 7 (9.21%) Red Hat
5 6 (7.89%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.63%) Cribl.io
6 2 (2.63%) New Relic
7 1 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.32%) Google
7 1 (1.32%) LogRhythm
7 1 (1.32%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.32%) Tenable
7 1 (1.32%) Veracode