Progress Chef Job Trends in the North West

Chef
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 184 178
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +48
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 4 20 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.063% 0.40% 0.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.20% 4.37% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 15
10th Percentile £55,500 £62,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +40.00% -27.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £94,206 £72,433
England median annual salary £88,750 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.52% +10.71% -9.68%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 332 458 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.27% 9.07% 11.34%
Number of salaries quoted 253 251 441
10th Percentile £28,550 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,105 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,572 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Progress Chef

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in the North West over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 10 January 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
Manchester +9 3 £80,000 -15.47%
Cumbria 0 1 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Progress Chef
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Puppet
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle