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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 439 389
Rank change year-on-year +29 -50 +44
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 129 138 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.72% 2.60% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 108 230
10th Percentile £367 £400 £485
25th Percentile £452 £472 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -10.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £594 £646 £688
90th Percentile £653 £690 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £484 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -12.05% -2.65% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49.25
25th Percentile - - £51.88
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

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 4,740 5,311 8,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.75% 12.22% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,170 3,824 6,110
10th Percentile £300 £300 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -6.35% -2.65%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 102 184
10th Percentile £13.75 £15.69 £18.65
25th Percentile £21.39 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% -44.35% +155.56%
75th Percentile £63.40 £49.69 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.58 £71.25 £84.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +37.50% -8.57% +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 24 June 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 14 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 24 June 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 +37 102 £550 -1.79% 368
Work from Home +51 68 £550 +5.01% 184
UK excluding London +32 59 £484 -12.05% 148
London +52 45 £613 +2.08% 244
North of England +25 24 £398 -30.11% 37
North West +18 19 £402 -11.65% 28
South West +31 12 £575 +2.68% 15
Scotland +7 7 £525 +12.30% 16
East of England +27 6 £366 -45.74% 8
South East +36 5 £525 -9.79% 36
Yorkshire -9 5 £390 -37.30% 8
Midlands -13 5 £506 +7.66% 28
East Midlands -5 4 £475 +6.74% 10
West Midlands -7 1 £550 -5.74% 18

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 13 (10.08%) Confluence
2 12 (9.30%) JBoss
3 7 (5.43%) Apache
4 6 (4.65%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 79 (61.24%) AWS
2 29 (22.48%) AWS CloudFormation
3 27 (20.93%) Azure
4 20 (15.50%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (14.73%) OpenShift
6 16 (12.40%) GitHub
7 15 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (10.85%) GCP
9 13 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (9.30%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.43%) Route 53
12 6 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.88%) Serverless
14 4 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (2.33%) Datadog
15 3 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (23.26%) DNS
2 25 (19.38%) Firewall
3 15 (11.63%) TCP/IP
4 14 (10.85%) HTTP
5 13 (10.08%) VPN
6 8 (6.20%) Internet
7 3 (2.33%) DHCP
7 3 (2.33%) LAN
7 3 (2.33%) SSH
7 3 (2.33%) WAN
8 2 (1.55%) BGP
8 2 (1.55%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.55%) DSL
8 2 (1.55%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.55%) Multicast
8 2 (1.55%) NX-OS
8 2 (1.55%) OSPF
8 2 (1.55%) SAN
8 2 (1.55%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (17.05%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (10.85%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.53%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (7.75%) RDBMS
5 8 (6.20%) MariaDB
5 8 (6.20%) MySQL
6 6 (4.65%) Redis
6 6 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.33%) Hazelcast
9 3 (2.33%) Power Query
9 3 (2.33%) SAP HANA
10 2 (1.55%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.78%) DB2
11 1 (0.78%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (48.06%) Jenkins
2 47 (36.43%) Git
3 36 (27.91%) JIRA
4 17 (13.18%) GitLab
5 15 (11.63%) CA Release Automation
5 15 (11.63%) TeamCity
6 14 (10.85%) Bitbucket
7 13 (10.08%) SonarQube
7 13 (10.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (8.53%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (6.20%) Selenium
10 7 (5.43%) Maven
11 5 (3.88%) Vagrant
12 4 (3.10%) Artifactory
12 4 (3.10%) Gradle
12 4 (3.10%) HP UFT
12 4 (3.10%) IntelliJ
12 4 (3.10%) JUnit
12 4 (3.10%) NetBeans
12 4 (3.10%) Subversion
General
1 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.30%) Finance
3 7 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.65%) Banking
5 3 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.55%) Retail
7 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.78%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (26.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (13.18%) Senior
3 13 (10.08%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (10.08%) Senior DevOps
3 13 (10.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 12 (9.30%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Administrator
6 9 (6.98%) Architect
6 9 (6.98%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) DevOps Specialist
8 7 (5.43%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) AWS Architect
10 5 (3.88%) Security Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Site Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.93%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (11.63%) Spring Boot
3 13 (10.08%) REST
4 11 (8.53%) SOAP
5 8 (6.20%) Kafka
5 8 (6.20%) Spring
6 7 (5.43%) J2EE
7 6 (4.65%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.88%) JSON
9 4 (3.10%) Hibernate
9 4 (3.10%) Spring Integration
9 4 (3.10%) Spring MVC
9 4 (3.10%) Web Services
9 4 (3.10%) YAML
10 3 (2.33%) .NET
10 3 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.33%) CSS
10 3 (2.33%) HTML
10 3 (2.33%) LAMP
10 3 (2.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (3.88%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.88%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.10%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.10%) PKI
5 3 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.33%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.55%) Clustering
6 2 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.55%) EMC VMAX
6 2 (1.55%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 75 (58.14%) Linux
2 49 (37.98%) Windows
3 25 (19.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (12.40%) Windows Server
5 13 (10.08%) Unix
6 7 (5.43%) CentOS
7 6 (4.65%) Ubuntu
8 3 (2.33%) AIX
8 3 (2.33%) Debian
9 2 (1.55%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.55%) Solaris
9 2 (1.55%) SUSE
10 1 (0.78%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.78%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (51.94%) DevOps
2 65 (50.39%) CI/CD
3 58 (44.96%) Configuration Management
4 53 (41.09%) Deployment Automation
5 40 (31.01%) Containerisation
5 40 (31.01%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (24.03%) Continuous Integration
7 27 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (19.38%) Agile
8 25 (19.38%) Microservices
9 20 (15.50%) Migration
10 19 (14.73%) Infrastructure Automation
11 16 (12.40%) High Availability
12 14 (10.85%) Service Management
13 13 (10.08%) Build Automation
13 13 (10.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (10.08%) Validation
14 12 (9.30%) Code Quality
14 12 (9.30%) Computer Science
15 11 (8.53%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (69.77%) Python
2 61 (47.29%) Bash
3 46 (35.66%) PowerShell
4 24 (18.60%) Java
4 24 (18.60%) Perl
5 11 (8.53%) Shell Script
5 11 (8.53%) SQL
6 9 (6.98%) Ruby
7 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.33%) Bicep
8 3 (2.33%) C#
8 3 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.55%) C++
9 2 (1.55%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.78%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.78%) Go
10 1 (0.78%) Korn
10 1 (0.78%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 41 (31.78%) Security Cleared
2 39 (30.23%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.30%) CCNP
3 12 (9.30%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (9.30%) Degree
4 10 (7.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.75%) OCA
4 10 (7.75%) Oracle Certification
4 10 (7.75%) RHCA
4 10 (7.75%) RHCE
4 10 (7.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.55%) CCIE
8 2 (1.55%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (0.78%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) QA
2 6 (4.65%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.55%) GDPR
3 2 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 56 (43.41%) Docker
2 22 (17.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.40%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.55%) VirtualBox
5 2 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.55%) vSphere
6 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.78%) iptables
6 1 (0.78%) NFS
6 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 92 (71.32%) Ansible
2 79 (61.24%) Puppet
3 60 (46.51%) Terraform
4 59 (45.74%) Kubernetes
5 26 (20.16%) Grafana
5 26 (20.16%) Prometheus
6 11 (8.53%) Kibana
7 10 (7.75%) vCenter Server
8 9 (6.98%) Salt
9 5 (3.88%) Nagios
10 4 (3.10%) Argo
11 3 (2.33%) Consul
11 3 (2.33%) Control-M
11 3 (2.33%) Istio
11 3 (2.33%) logstash
11 3 (2.33%) Rundeck
11 3 (2.33%) vRealize
11 3 (2.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 32 (24.81%) Red Hat
2 29 (22.48%) VMware
3 25 (19.38%) Oracle
4 17 (13.18%) Splunk
5 15 (11.63%) Cisco
6 11 (8.53%) AppDynamics
6 11 (8.53%) Microsoft
7 9 (6.98%) Google
8 7 (5.43%) Atlassian
8 7 (5.43%) ServiceNow
9 6 (4.65%) IBM
10 5 (3.88%) Cloudera
10 5 (3.88%) SAP
11 4 (3.10%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (3.10%) CyberArk
11 4 (3.10%) Dynatrace
11 4 (3.10%) New Relic
12 3 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
12 3 (2.33%) ForgeRock
12 3 (2.33%) Rackspace