Progress Chef Job Trends in England

Chef
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 524 624
Rank change year-on-year -125 +100 -307
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 36 102 199
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.044% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.86% 2.08% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26 83 156
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £42,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,625 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £77,125 £97,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,719 £136,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -13.33% +6.27% -5.90%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Progress Chef falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,206 4,894 8,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.15% 12.42% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3,021 3,047 6,543
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +9.31% -8.52%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Progress Chef relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in England

Progress Chef
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Progress Chef.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in England

Progress Chef
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Progress Chef within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -48 13 £67,500 -6.57% 8
South West -39 11 £55,000 -42.11% 9
London -85 8 £78,813 -12.43% 12
Yorkshire -46 7 £72,500 -3.16% 4
North West -7 6 £66,250 -7.97% 3
South East -20 2 - - 1
West Midlands -32 2 - - 2
Midlands -34 2 - - 3
Progress Chef
UK

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
1 2 (5.56%) IIS
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Drupal
2 1 (2.78%) nginx
2 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (25.00%) GitHub
3 9 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (22.22%) Serverless
5 7 (19.44%) Amazon S3
6 6 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (16.67%) Azure
6 6 (16.67%) CloudFront
6 6 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (13.89%) GCP
8 2 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
8 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 1 (2.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (16.67%) MySQL
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 6 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.78%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.78%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 3 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (8.33%) Vagrant
4 2 (5.56%) JIRA
4 2 (5.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.78%) Gatling
5 1 (2.78%) git-flow
5 1 (2.78%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) JMeter
5 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Electronics
5 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) DBA
3 6 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
4 5 (13.89%) MySQL DBA
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Administrator
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Web Services
2 2 (5.56%) React
2 2 (5.56%) Spring
2 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Memcached
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) Node.js
3 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.78%) REST
3 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 29 (80.56%) Linux
2 12 (33.33%) Windows
3 8 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (19.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (5.56%) CentOS
6 2 (5.56%) Debian
6 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 21 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (41.67%) Configuration Management
4 14 (38.89%) Containerisation
5 13 (36.11%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (33.33%) DevOps
7 10 (27.78%) Agile
8 9 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
10 6 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
10 6 (16.67%) Software Delivery
11 4 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 2 (5.56%) High Availability
13 2 (5.56%) Migration
13 2 (5.56%) TDD
13 2 (5.56%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (44.44%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) Bash
2 8 (22.22%) Groovy
3 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.78%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) AWS Certification
2 5 (13.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) City & Guilds
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (55.56%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) iptables
2 4 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (66.67%) Ansible
2 23 (63.89%) Terraform
3 20 (55.56%) Puppet
4 19 (52.78%) Kubernetes
5 9 (25.00%) Grafana
5 9 (25.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (11.11%) ZABBIX
7 3 (8.33%) Packer
8 1 (2.78%) Consul
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Oracle
2 5 (13.89%) VMware
3 4 (11.11%) Cribl.io
3 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.56%) Google
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) TOWER Software