Progress Chef Job Trends

Chef
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 605 511
Rank change year-on-year -22 -94 -111
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 39 146 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.79% 2.20% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 31 89 169
10th Percentile £59,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £114,375 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £225,000 £99,750 £98,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% +16.00% -3.85%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,957 6,623 8,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.07% 9.58% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,109 3,978 6,847
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £48,925 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,813 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,058 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.20% - +4.55%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Progress Chef job vacancy trend in the UK

Progress Chef
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 11 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 October 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
England 0 38 £90,000 +20.00% 20
London +24 24 £95,000 +24.59% 11
UK excluding London +19 15 £80,000 +10.34% 15
Work from Home +42 13 £80,000 -13.51% 26
North of England +4 5 £72,500 +20.83% 1
North West -13 5 £72,500 -1.36%
South West +24 4 £92,500 +23.33% 1
Midlands +40 3 £67,500 -3.57% 3
West Midlands +39 3 £67,500 -3.57% 2
South East +27 2 - - 6
Scotland +5 1 - -

Progress Chef
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.13%) Luigi
2 1 (2.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 25 (64.10%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) SaaS
4 8 (20.51%) GitHub
5 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
6 5 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (12.82%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (12.82%) GCP
6 5 (12.82%) OpenShift
6 5 (12.82%) Serverless
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.26%) IaaS
7 4 (10.26%) PaaS
8 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) AMQP
1 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.13%) DHCP
2 2 (5.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.56%) Firewall
3 1 (2.56%) HTTP
3 1 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (2.56%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.69%) InfluxDB
4 2 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.13%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.64%) Git
3 4 (10.26%) GitLab
4 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.13%) JIRA
4 2 (5.13%) JMeter
4 2 (5.13%) JUnit
4 2 (5.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Banking
5 3 (7.69%) Law
6 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Advertising
7 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (17.95%) Senior
2 5 (12.82%) Applications Support
3 4 (10.26%) Linux Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Platform Specialist
3 4 (10.26%) Site Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Principal Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (10.26%) Kafka
3 3 (7.69%) .NET
3 3 (7.69%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.13%) LAMP
4 2 (5.13%) LAPP Stack
4 2 (5.13%) Node.js
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.13%) OpenID
4 2 (5.13%) SAML
4 2 (5.13%) YAML
5 1 (2.56%) LDAP
5 1 (2.56%) React
5 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 3 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Linux
2 8 (20.51%) Unix
3 6 (15.38%) Windows
4 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.56%) AIX
6 1 (2.56%) Debian
6 1 (2.56%) Solaris
6 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 13 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (30.77%) Agile
5 10 (25.64%) Containerisation
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.08%) Observability
7 8 (20.51%) Incident Response
7 8 (20.51%) Microservices
7 8 (20.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (17.95%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (17.95%) ITSM
8 7 (17.95%) Scrum
8 7 (17.95%) Time Management
9 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 6 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (15.38%) Process Improvement
9 6 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 5 (12.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (51.28%) Java
1 20 (51.28%) Python
2 13 (33.33%) SQL
3 12 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 9 (23.08%) Shell Script
5 8 (20.51%) Bash
6 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
7 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (7.69%) Go
8 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
9 2 (5.13%) Perl
9 2 (5.13%) Ruby
9 2 (5.13%) Scala
9 2 (5.13%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (2.56%) C++
10 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
1 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) GCED
4 1 (2.56%) GCIA
4 1 (2.56%) GCIH
4 1 (2.56%) GIAC
4 1 (2.56%) GREM
4 1 (2.56%) GSEC
4 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) KVM
3 2 (5.13%) Xen
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 29 (74.36%) Ansible
2 17 (43.59%) Puppet
3 14 (35.90%) Grafana
3 14 (35.90%) Kubernetes
4 13 (33.33%) Terraform
5 7 (17.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.69%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (5.13%) CFEngine
7 2 (5.13%) SCOM
7 2 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (2.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Splunk
2 8 (20.51%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) Dynatrace
3 5 (12.82%) VMware
4 4 (10.26%) Mellanox
4 4 (10.26%) Solarflare
5 3 (7.69%) ForgeRock
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.13%) ArcSight
6 2 (5.13%) Okta
6 2 (5.13%) Ping Identity
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics