Progress Chef Job Trends in the North of England

Chef
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 297 355
Rank change year-on-year -28 +58 -46
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 21 16 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.10% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.10% 1.11% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 17
10th Percentile £51,500 £63,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £66,125 £31,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% +26.09% -14.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,875 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £83,550 £65,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% -3.33%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 999 1,444 1,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.81% 15.38% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 799 509 998
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the North of England

Progress Chef
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Progress Chef.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the North of England

Progress Chef
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Yorkshire -17 13 £73,750 -1.50% 3
North West -11 7 £65,000 -9.71% 7
North East - 1 £50,000 - 1
Progress Chef
England

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (85.71%) AWS
2 14 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (61.90%) GitHub
3 13 (61.90%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (14.29%) Azure
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (9.52%) Cloudflare
6 2 (9.52%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (9.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (9.52%) Kong
6 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) DBA
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) MySQL DBA
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) React
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (66.67%) Containerisation
4 12 (57.14%) Network Load Balancing
5 10 (47.62%) Software Delivery
5 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
6 7 (33.33%) Agile
7 6 (28.57%) Configuration Management
8 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (23.81%) DevOps
9 4 (19.05%) Auto-Scaling
9 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
9 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (9.52%) AI
11 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
11 2 (9.52%) Scrum
11 2 (9.52%) TDD
11 2 (9.52%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 13 (61.90%) Groovy
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) Go
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 18 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 17 (80.95%) Terraform
3 5 (23.81%) Puppet
4 3 (14.29%) Ansible
5 2 (9.52%) Grafana
5 2 (9.52%) Istio
5 2 (9.52%) linkerd
5 2 (9.52%) Packer
5 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Google
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle