Progress Chef Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 289 303
Rank change year-on-year +52 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 67 56 178
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 0.36% 0.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.37% 3.40% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 46 128
10th Percentile £395 £372 £445
25th Percentile £492 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £653 £600 £700
90th Percentile £700 £694 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +12.75%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,534 1,647 4,293
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 15.49% 10.73% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,220 3,179
10th Percentile £386 £356 £400
25th Percentile £440 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £626 £631 £675
90th Percentile £788 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 73
10th Percentile £16.10 £21.73 £26.55
25th Percentile £25.50 £38.58 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.88 £47.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -28.03% +65.00%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £67.25 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

Progress Chef
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Progress Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Progress Chef trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Progress Chef.

Progress Chef daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Progress Chef daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Progress Chef.

Progress Chef hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.97%) OpenStack
2 3 (4.48%) JBoss
3 2 (2.99%) Confluence
4 1 (1.49%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 45 (67.16%) AWS
2 21 (31.34%) Azure
3 19 (28.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (23.88%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (14.93%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (14.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (13.43%) OpenShift
7 8 (11.94%) Amazon S3
7 8 (11.94%) GitHub
8 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.96%) Route 53
9 5 (7.46%) GCP
10 4 (5.97%) Serverless
11 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.48%) Kong
12 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.99%) NuGet
12 2 (2.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (29.85%) DNS
2 14 (20.90%) Firewall
2 14 (20.90%) TCP/IP
3 12 (17.91%) HTTP
4 7 (10.45%) Internet
4 7 (10.45%) VPN
5 4 (5.97%) SSH
6 3 (4.48%) DHCP
6 3 (4.48%) LAN
6 3 (4.48%) WAN
7 2 (2.99%) BGP
7 2 (2.99%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.99%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (2.99%) Multicast
7 2 (2.99%) NX-OS
7 2 (2.99%) OSPF
7 2 (2.99%) VXLAN
8 1 (1.49%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (13.43%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (5.97%) Redis
6 3 (4.48%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (4.48%) Hazelcast
6 3 (4.48%) MariaDB
6 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.99%) SAP HANA
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.49%) MySQL
8 1 (1.49%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 28 (41.79%) Jenkins
2 18 (26.87%) Git
3 8 (11.94%) GitLab
3 8 (11.94%) JIRA
4 7 (10.45%) Maven
5 6 (8.96%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (7.46%) Artifactory
6 5 (7.46%) Selenium
6 5 (7.46%) SonarQube
6 5 (7.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (4.48%) Gradle
7 3 (4.48%) HP UFT
7 3 (4.48%) IntelliJ
7 3 (4.48%) JMeter
7 3 (4.48%) JUnit
7 3 (4.48%) NetBeans
7 3 (4.48%) Subversion
7 3 (4.48%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.43%) Finance
3 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.97%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (20.90%) Senior
3 11 (16.42%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (13.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Architect
7 5 (7.46%) AWS Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) DevOps Specialist
8 4 (5.97%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Security Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.88%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (10.45%) Spring
3 6 (8.96%) J2EE
3 6 (8.96%) Kafka
3 6 (8.96%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.48%) .NET
5 3 (4.48%) ActiveMQ
5 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
5 3 (4.48%) Spring Integration
5 3 (4.48%) Spring MVC
5 3 (4.48%) Web Services
6 2 (2.99%) Ajax
6 2 (2.99%) CSS
6 2 (2.99%) HTML
6 2 (2.99%) HTML5
6 2 (2.99%) jQuery
6 2 (2.99%) Node.js
6 2 (2.99%) REST
6 2 (2.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.97%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (5.97%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.48%) PKI
4 2 (2.99%) Insider Threat
4 2 (2.99%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.49%) Clustering
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 41 (61.19%) Linux
2 22 (32.84%) Windows
3 10 (14.93%) Unix
4 9 (13.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (7.46%) AIX
6 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
7 3 (4.48%) CentOS
7 3 (4.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (2.99%) Solaris
8 2 (2.99%) SUSE
9 1 (1.49%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) DevOps
2 29 (43.28%) CI/CD
2 29 (43.28%) Configuration Management
3 28 (41.79%) Deployment Automation
4 22 (32.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (29.85%) Containerisation
6 17 (25.37%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (17.91%) Microservices
7 12 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (14.93%) Agile
9 8 (11.94%) Computer Science
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (10.45%) Cost Management
10 7 (10.45%) Migration
11 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.96%) High Availability
12 5 (7.46%) DevSecOps
12 5 (7.46%) Test Automation
13 4 (5.97%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (56.72%) Python
2 27 (40.30%) Bash
3 25 (37.31%) PowerShell
4 13 (19.40%) Java
5 11 (16.42%) Perl
6 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
6 5 (7.46%) Ruby
7 3 (4.48%) C#
8 2 (2.99%) C++
8 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.99%) SQL
8 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.49%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.49%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.49%) Bicep
9 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.49%) Go
9 1 (1.49%) Groovy
9 1 (1.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 26 (38.81%) SC Cleared
1 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) Degree
3 7 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.48%) CCNP
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.99%) CCIE
5 2 (2.99%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.49%) OCA
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.49%) RHCA
6 1 (1.49%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) NIST
1 3 (4.48%) QA
System Software
1 32 (47.76%) Docker
2 14 (20.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (2.99%) vSphere
6 1 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (76.12%) Ansible
2 45 (67.16%) Puppet
3 38 (56.72%) Terraform
4 32 (47.76%) Kubernetes
5 18 (26.87%) Grafana
5 18 (26.87%) Prometheus
6 3 (4.48%) Control-M
6 3 (4.48%) Istio
6 3 (4.48%) Kibana
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (4.48%) Rundeck
6 3 (4.48%) SCCM
6 3 (4.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (2.99%) Argo
7 2 (2.99%) Consul
7 2 (2.99%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.99%) logstash
7 2 (2.99%) Packer
7 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Red Hat
2 14 (20.90%) VMware
3 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.45%) Splunk
5 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.97%) Google
6 3 (4.48%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.48%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (4.48%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (4.48%) Cisco
6 3 (4.48%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.48%) ForgeRock
7 2 (2.99%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (2.99%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) HP
8 1 (1.49%) IBM
8 1 (1.49%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle
8 1 (1.49%) TOWER Software