Progress Chef Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Chef
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 98 117
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 +45
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 5 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.79% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.58% 7.04% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 7
10th Percentile £536 £569 £630
25th Percentile £553 £573 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £584 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -22.20% +38.89%
75th Percentile £588 £638 -
90th Percentile - £738 -
England median daily rate £475 £570 £625
% change year-on-year -16.67% -8.80% -

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 316 213 278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.42% 11.23% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 144 187
10th Percentile £257 £293 £300
25th Percentile £400 £358 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £608
90th Percentile £650 £664 £710
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £56.00 -
25th Percentile - £57.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £62.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.40% +237.84% +12.12%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £18.75
90th Percentile - £73.00 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £46.18 £51.25
% change year-on-year -24.21% -9.89% +114.35%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Progress Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the West Midlands

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Progress Chef
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Worcestershire - 4 £575 - 1
Shropshire - 1 - -
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (60.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub
2 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (60.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Datadog
3 3 (60.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (60.00%) npm
3 3 (60.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (80.00%) Git
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) SonarQube
2 4 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (60.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (60.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (60.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (60.00%) Gradle
3 3 (60.00%) JUnit
3 3 (60.00%) Maven
3 3 (60.00%) Postman
3 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 3 (60.00%) Snyk
3 3 (60.00%) webpack
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (20.00%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) YAML
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Go
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Puppet
3 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 3 (60.00%) Podman
3 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat