Progress Chef Job Trends in the Midlands

Chef
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 280 224
Rank change year-on-year +60 -56 +93
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 3 7 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.054% 0.070% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.65% 1.18% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 11
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,188 £92,500
90th Percentile - £85,625 -
England median annual salary £87,500 £75,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -11.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 459 593 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.21% 5.91% 11.32%
Number of salaries quoted 288 349 495
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,900 £30,241
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.99% -6.64%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the Midlands

Progress Chef
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Progress Chef.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Progress Chef within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +53 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Law
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ArcSight
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft