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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 231 275
Rank change year-on-year -54 +44 -56
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 4 3 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.025% 0.053% 0.084%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.99% 0.71% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £87,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% +15.38%

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 403 421 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.56% 7.46% 5.14%
Number of salaries quoted 298 250 255
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,200 £31,350
25th Percentile £39,813 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend 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 6 October 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
West Midlands -33 4 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Ivy
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Head of Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Solaris
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Facebook
2 1 (25.00%) Instagram
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat