Progress Chef Contracts

Chef
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 475 367
Rank change year-on-year +92 -108 +35
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 136 125 392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.29% 0.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.95% 2.43% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 103 284
10th Percentile £393 £400 £445
25th Percentile £463 £485 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £688
90th Percentile £675 £710 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - -32.35%

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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Progress Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef.

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef.

Hourly rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 13 Contract 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 30 April 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
England +56 104 £550 -4.35% 152
Work from Home +61 67 £550 -4.35% 91
UK excluding London +60 63 £513 -6.82% 89
London +27 46 £580 -3.33% 75
North of England +30 28 £425 -25.27% 40
North West +18 22 £475 -11.42% 28
South West +48 13 £575 +4.55% 6
South East +44 9 £500 -14.35% 15
Scotland +14 9 £538 +14.97% 7
Yorkshire +10 6 £408 -32.98% 12
Midlands +22 4 £475 +33.43% 13
East Midlands +9 4 £475 +33.43% 4
East of England +32 1 £550 -18.52% 4

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (7.35%) Confluence
1 10 (7.35%) JBoss
2 8 (5.88%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.21%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) IIS
4 1 (0.74%) nginx
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Shopify
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 76 (55.88%) AWS
2 39 (28.68%) Azure
3 25 (18.38%) OpenShift
4 24 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (13.24%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (12.50%) GitHub
7 15 (11.03%) GCP
8 13 (9.56%) Amazon S3
8 13 (9.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 11 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.15%) Route 53
12 5 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (3.68%) Serverless
13 4 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
14 3 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
14 3 (2.21%) Cloud Functions
14 3 (2.21%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 23 (16.91%) DNS
2 22 (16.18%) Firewall
3 18 (13.24%) TCP/IP
4 13 (9.56%) HTTP
5 10 (7.35%) VPN
6 7 (5.15%) Internet
7 5 (3.68%) BGP
7 5 (3.68%) Ethernet VPN
7 5 (3.68%) Multicast
7 5 (3.68%) OSPF
7 5 (3.68%) SAN
7 5 (3.68%) VXLAN
8 4 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (2.94%) NX-OS
8 4 (2.94%) SSH
9 3 (2.21%) DHCP
9 3 (2.21%) LAN
9 3 (2.21%) NAS
9 3 (2.21%) WAN
10 2 (1.47%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.18%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (9.56%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (8.82%) RDBMS
4 12 (8.82%) Relational Database
5 9 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (5.15%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.68%) Redis
7 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.94%) MariaDB
8 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.94%) MySQL
9 3 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.21%) Cloud Spanner
9 3 (2.21%) Hazelcast
9 3 (2.21%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.47%) Power Query
11 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (46.32%) Jenkins
2 46 (33.82%) Git
3 30 (22.06%) JIRA
4 17 (12.50%) GitLab
4 17 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 16 (11.76%) Bitbucket
6 14 (10.29%) CA Release Automation
7 12 (8.82%) SonarQube
8 10 (7.35%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (7.35%) TeamCity
9 8 (5.88%) Maven
9 8 (5.88%) Selenium
10 6 (4.41%) Artifactory
11 5 (3.68%) JMeter
12 4 (2.94%) Gradle
12 4 (2.94%) HP UFT
12 4 (2.94%) IntelliJ
12 4 (2.94%) JUnit
12 4 (2.94%) NetBeans
12 4 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 30 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.97%) Finance
3 12 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.35%) Banking
5 6 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.94%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.47%) Retail
8 1 (0.74%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Military
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (24.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (16.18%) Senior
3 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (8.82%) Architect
4 12 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
4 12 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
4 12 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 11 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (7.35%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.41%) Python Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Administrator
8 5 (3.68%) Consultant
8 5 (3.68%) GCP Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Network Consultant
8 5 (3.68%) Security Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Site Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.38%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 14 (10.29%) Kafka
4 13 (9.56%) REST
5 11 (8.09%) SOAP
6 8 (5.88%) Spring
7 7 (5.15%) J2EE
8 6 (4.41%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.94%) Hibernate
9 4 (2.94%) Spring Integration
9 4 (2.94%) Spring MVC
9 4 (2.94%) Web Services
10 3 (2.21%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.21%) Ajax
10 3 (2.21%) CSS
10 3 (2.21%) HTML5
10 3 (2.21%) jQuery
10 3 (2.21%) JSON
10 3 (2.21%) Node.js
10 3 (2.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.62%) Data Centre
3 8 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.41%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.68%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.21%) Clustering
7 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.21%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.21%) PKI
7 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.47%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.47%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.47%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (57.35%) Linux
2 48 (35.29%) Windows
3 24 (17.65%) Unix
4 20 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (11.03%) AIX
5 15 (11.03%) Windows Server
6 7 (5.15%) CentOS
6 7 (5.15%) Solaris
6 7 (5.15%) Ubuntu
7 5 (3.68%) HPUX
8 2 (1.47%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.47%) SUSE
9 1 (0.74%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) Configuration Management
2 64 (47.06%) DevOps
3 59 (43.38%) CI/CD
4 52 (38.24%) Deployment Automation
5 35 (25.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 29 (21.32%) Microservices
7 29 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (19.85%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (18.38%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (16.18%) Agile
11 20 (14.71%) Migration
12 19 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (12.50%) High Availability
14 15 (11.03%) Service Management
15 14 (10.29%) Validation
16 13 (9.56%) Task Automation
16 13 (9.56%) Test Automation
17 12 (8.82%) Computer Science
17 12 (8.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (68.38%) Python
2 59 (43.38%) Bash
3 47 (34.56%) PowerShell
4 26 (19.12%) Perl
5 23 (16.91%) Java
6 10 (7.35%) SQL
7 9 (6.62%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.62%) Shell Script
8 8 (5.88%) Ruby
9 4 (2.94%) Go
10 3 (2.21%) C#
10 3 (2.21%) PHP
10 3 (2.21%) R
10 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.47%) Bicep
11 2 (1.47%) C++
11 2 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.47%) Korn
12 1 (0.74%) ActionScript 2.0
12 1 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 48 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 47 (34.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.29%) CCNP
3 14 (10.29%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (8.82%) Degree
5 11 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (7.35%) OCA
6 10 (7.35%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (7.35%) RHCA
6 10 (7.35%) RHCE
6 10 (7.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.68%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.94%) CCIE
8 4 (2.94%) CCIE Data Center
9 3 (2.21%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.47%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.15%) QA
2 6 (4.41%) NIST
3 2 (1.47%) GDPR
3 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
System Software
1 57 (41.91%) Docker
2 29 (21.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (11.03%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.15%) Hyper-V
5 5 (3.68%) vSphere
6 4 (2.94%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 3 (2.21%) KVM
8 2 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.74%) NFS
9 1 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (80.15%) Ansible
2 87 (63.97%) Puppet
3 63 (46.32%) Kubernetes
3 63 (46.32%) Terraform
4 24 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 23 (16.91%) Grafana
6 10 (7.35%) Kibana
6 10 (7.35%) vCenter Server
7 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (5.15%) SCCM
8 5 (3.68%) Packer
9 3 (2.21%) Argo
9 3 (2.21%) Consul
9 3 (2.21%) Control-M
9 3 (2.21%) Istio
9 3 (2.21%) logstash
9 3 (2.21%) Rundeck
9 3 (2.21%) Salt
9 3 (2.21%) vRealize
9 3 (2.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 39 (28.68%) Red Hat
1 39 (28.68%) VMware
2 22 (16.18%) Oracle
3 17 (12.50%) Cisco
4 16 (11.76%) Splunk
5 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
6 12 (8.82%) Google
7 10 (7.35%) AppDynamics
8 8 (5.88%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.68%) Dynatrace
9 5 (3.68%) SAP
10 4 (2.94%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (2.94%) Cloudera
10 4 (2.94%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.94%) IBM
11 3 (2.21%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (2.21%) ForgeRock
11 3 (2.21%) HP
11 3 (2.21%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.47%) LogicMonitor