Progress Chef Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Progress Chef skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Progress Chef over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 300 336
Rank change year-on-year +12 +36 -78
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 56 177 315
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.37% 0.68% 0.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.45% 4.13% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 128 247
10th Percentile £372 £445 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £750
90th Percentile £694 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £54.15
25th Percentile - £56.25 £58.88
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.44% +10.57%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £78.38
90th Percentile - - £83.85
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year - +12.75% -17.07%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Progress Chef is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,624 4,290 7,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.63% 16.55% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 3,175 5,360
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -0.80% +9.01%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 74 49
10th Percentile £21.49 £27.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £37.71 £55.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £66.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.03% +88.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.81 £77.88 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.38 £88.06 £79.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
% change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%

Progress Chef
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Progress Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Progress Chef trend for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) JBoss
2 3 (5.36%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.57%) Apache
3 2 (3.57%) nginx
3 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.79%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (69.64%) AWS
2 20 (35.71%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (14.29%) GCP
3 8 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 8 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (12.50%) GitHub
4 7 (12.50%) Serverless
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (8.93%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.93%) Route 53
7 4 (7.14%) Datadog
8 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.57%) Apigee
9 2 (3.57%) Kong
9 2 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (8.93%) DSL
3 4 (7.14%) DNS
4 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (3.57%) SNA
5 2 (3.57%) VPN
6 1 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (1.79%) SSL
6 1 (1.79%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.79%) VLAN
6 1 (1.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (10.71%) MySQL
2 6 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.14%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.36%) Big Data
6 2 (3.57%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Redis
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 31 (55.36%) Jenkins
2 16 (28.57%) JIRA
3 14 (25.00%) Git
4 9 (16.07%) GitLab
5 4 (7.14%) CircleCI
5 4 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 4 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (7.14%) TeamCity
5 4 (7.14%) Travis CI
6 3 (5.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (5.36%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (5.36%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (5.36%) Maven
7 2 (3.57%) Artifactory
7 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.79%) Darcs
8 1 (1.79%) Gradle
8 1 (1.79%) Hudson
8 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.79%) Vagrant
General
1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.36%) Finance
3 14 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Banking
6 3 (5.36%) Retail
7 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (1.79%) French Language
8 1 (1.79%) Games
8 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.79%) Military
8 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (39.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Senior
3 5 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) Vulnerability Specialist
3 5 (8.93%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Unix Specialist
5 3 (5.36%) AWS Architect
5 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (5.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (5.36%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Lead
6 2 (3.57%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (12.50%) YAML
3 5 (8.93%) JSON
3 5 (8.93%) XML
4 4 (7.14%) Node.js
4 4 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (5.36%) RESTful
5 3 (5.36%) SOAP
5 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 2 (3.57%) Django
6 2 (3.57%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.57%) Flask
6 2 (3.57%) React
7 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.79%) Kafka
7 1 (1.79%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (1.79%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (1.79%) React Native
7 1 (1.79%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Public Cloud
2 6 (10.71%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.36%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.36%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) CBDC
4 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Digital Currency
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) PKI
5 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (41.07%) Linux
2 17 (30.36%) Windows
3 12 (21.43%) Unix
4 8 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.79%) CentOS
6 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (64.29%) DevOps
2 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
3 23 (41.07%) Configuration Management
4 22 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (26.79%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (21.43%) Agile
7 11 (19.64%) Containerisation
8 10 (17.86%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.50%) ITSM
9 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (10.71%) Microservices
10 6 (10.71%) Project Delivery
10 6 (10.71%) Scrum
10 6 (10.71%) Security Patching
11 5 (8.93%) Continuous Deployment
11 5 (8.93%) High Availability
11 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.93%) Server Building
11 5 (8.93%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (64.29%) Python
2 17 (30.36%) Bash
2 17 (30.36%) Ruby
3 16 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.29%) Go
4 8 (14.29%) Java
5 7 (12.50%) C++
5 7 (12.50%) Perl
6 4 (7.14%) C
7 3 (5.36%) SQL
8 2 (3.57%) C#
8 2 (3.57%) Groovy
8 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.57%) PHP
8 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.79%) Bicep
9 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.79%) CEH
4 1 (1.79%) CISSP
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) NIST
2 2 (3.57%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.79%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (41.07%) Docker
2 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.93%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.36%) Firmware
4 3 (5.36%) vCloud
4 3 (5.36%) vSphere
5 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.79%) Postfix
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (87.50%) Ansible
2 42 (75.00%) Puppet
3 39 (69.64%) Terraform
4 23 (41.07%) Kubernetes
5 12 (21.43%) Prometheus
6 8 (14.29%) Grafana
7 7 (12.50%) Kibana
8 5 (8.93%) CFEngine
8 5 (8.93%) PowerBroker
9 4 (7.14%) Consul
9 4 (7.14%) logstash
9 4 (7.14%) Packer
9 4 (7.14%) Salt
10 3 (5.36%) Autotask
10 3 (5.36%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (5.36%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (5.36%) Nagios
11 2 (3.57%) vRealize
11 2 (3.57%) VxRail
12 1 (1.79%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Splunk
2 8 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 7 (12.50%) VMware
4 6 (10.71%) Atlassian
5 5 (8.93%) Dell
5 5 (8.93%) Qualys
6 4 (7.14%) BMC
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 4 (7.14%) Remedy
7 3 (5.36%) AppDynamics
7 3 (5.36%) Arista
7 3 (5.36%) Google
7 3 (5.36%) New Relic
7 3 (5.36%) SaltStack
7 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.36%) TOWER Software
8 2 (3.57%) LogRhythm
8 2 (3.57%) Oracle
8 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.79%) ForgeRock