Progress Chef Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Chef
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 553 501 632
Rank change year-on-year -52 +131 -329
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 47 30 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.10% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.66% 0.93% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 36 25 73
10th Percentile - £62,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £64,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% +10.76% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,813 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £96,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,824 3,234 6,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.20% 10.87% 7.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,187 1,602 4,252
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -7.60%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Progress Chef
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Progress Chef.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK excluding London

Progress Chef
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Progress Chef within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 June 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 -33 18 £67,500 -6.24% 11
Scotland +19 13 £35,000 -53.02%
Yorkshire -35 11 £73,750 -1.50% 3
South West -46 11 £65,000 -31.58% 7
North West -9 7 £65,000 -9.71% 7
West Midlands -18 3 £65,000 -3.70%
Midlands -21 3 £65,000 -3.70%
Wales - 2 £55,000 -
Progress Chef
UK

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (2.13%) Apache
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) Drupal
1 1 (2.13%) IIS
1 1 (2.13%) nginx
1 1 (2.13%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) AWS
2 15 (31.91%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (29.79%) GitHub
3 14 (29.79%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (27.66%) SaaS
5 12 (25.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (17.02%) Azure
7 7 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (12.77%) Serverless
9 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
9 5 (10.64%) CloudFront
9 5 (10.64%) GCP
10 4 (8.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECR
10 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (4.26%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (4.26%) Google Compute Engine
11 2 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (2.13%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Network Security
2 4 (8.51%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.89%) MySQL
2 7 (14.89%) Oracle Database
2 7 (14.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.13%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.64%) Bitbucket
2 5 (10.64%) Git
3 3 (6.38%) Vagrant
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) Gatling
5 1 (2.13%) JIRA
5 1 (2.13%) JMeter
General
1 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Finance
3 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (27.66%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Account Manager
3 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) DBA
4 7 (14.89%) MySQL DBA
4 7 (14.89%) Oracle DBA
5 6 (12.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior
6 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Platform Manager
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (4.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Web Services
2 2 (4.26%) Kafka
2 2 (4.26%) React
2 2 (4.26%) Spring
2 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.13%) .NET
3 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.13%) Memcached
3 1 (2.13%) REST
3 1 (2.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (59.57%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Windows
3 8 (17.02%) Windows Server
4 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (14.89%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (10.64%) Debian
5 5 (10.64%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.26%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) CI/CD
2 21 (44.68%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (40.43%) Containerisation
4 13 (27.66%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (25.53%) Agile
6 11 (23.40%) DevOps
6 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
7 10 (21.28%) Configuration Management
7 10 (21.28%) Network Load Balancing
8 7 (14.89%) Mentoring
8 7 (14.89%) Software Delivery
9 4 (8.51%) Clean Code
9 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (8.51%) Observability
9 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (6.38%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (6.38%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (6.38%) Network Architecture
10 3 (6.38%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (6.38%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (38.30%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) Groovy
3 9 (19.15%) Bash
4 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.26%) Go
5 2 (4.26%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
3 5 (10.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (46.81%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) iptables
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (55.32%) Terraform
2 20 (42.55%) Ansible
3 19 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 19 (40.43%) Puppet
4 6 (12.77%) Grafana
4 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.38%) Packer
5 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (4.26%) Istio
6 2 (4.26%) linkerd
7 1 (2.13%) Consul
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Oracle
2 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Facebook
5 1 (2.13%) Instagram
5 1 (2.13%) TOWER Software