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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 712 622 630
Rank change year-on-year -90 +8 -119
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 100 48 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.085% 0.096% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.87% 0.96% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 53 38 96
10th Percentile £35,000 £61,525 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £86,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.64% +15.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £104,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £165,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £74,500 £71,250
% change year-on-year -22.82% +4.56% +9.03%

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 5,347 5,008 6,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 10.07% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,681 2,854 3,720
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £39,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.35%

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 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 13 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 4 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
England -94 87 £65,000 -25.71% 130
UK excluding London -91 62 £57,500 -22.82% 51
North of England -32 37 £57,500 -25.57% 21
London -59 36 £92,500 +2.78% 81
Work from Home -31 25 £72,500 -19.44% 49
Yorkshire - 21 £52,500 - 2
North West -14 13 £57,500 -25.57% 14
Scotland +11 11 £35,000 -53.02% 1
South West -65 9 £65,000 -29.73% 13
West Midlands -38 4 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Midlands -43 4 £65,000 -3.70% 3
North East - 3 £50,000 - 5
East of England - 1 £33,500 - 2

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 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
3 1 (1.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 68 (68.00%) AWS
2 51 (51.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 31 (31.00%) Azure
4 27 (27.00%) GitHub
5 23 (23.00%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (19.00%) Cloud Computing
8 13 (13.00%) Serverless
9 12 (12.00%) SaaS
10 10 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (10.00%) Entra ID
11 9 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (8.00%) GCP
12 8 (8.00%) OpenShift
13 7 (7.00%) IaaS
14 6 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (4.00%) Rubrik
15 4 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DNS
2 4 (4.00%) DHCP
2 4 (4.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (4.00%) SAN
3 3 (3.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 3 (3.00%) Wireless
3 3 (3.00%) Wireless Security
4 2 (2.00%) VPN
5 1 (1.00%) Firewall
5 1 (1.00%) Network Security
5 1 (1.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.00%) MySQL
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.00%) Power BI
4 2 (2.00%) Power Query
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.00%) Git
2 10 (10.00%) GitLab
3 6 (6.00%) Maven
4 4 (4.00%) Claude Code
4 4 (4.00%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.00%) Ant
6 2 (2.00%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (2.00%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.00%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.00%) Selenium
7 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.00%) Finance
3 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Front Office
6 1 (1.00%) Marketing
6 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (29.00%) Senior
2 24 (24.00%) Platform Engineer
3 20 (20.00%) Consultant
3 20 (20.00%) Professional Services Consultant
4 13 (13.00%) Migration Consultant
4 13 (13.00%) Senior Consultant
4 13 (13.00%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
5 11 (11.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.00%) Account Manager
8 6 (6.00%) DBA
8 6 (6.00%) MySQL DBA
8 6 (6.00%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (53.00%) Terraform
2 20 (20.00%) Web Services
3 7 (7.00%) AWS CDK
3 7 (7.00%) Node.js
4 5 (5.00%) React
5 4 (4.00%) Spring
5 4 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.00%) CSS
6 1 (1.00%) CSS3
6 1 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.00%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.00%) HTML
6 1 (1.00%) HTML5
6 1 (1.00%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.00%) OAuth
6 1 (1.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.00%) Data Centre
2 23 (23.00%) Cloud Native
3 19 (19.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (19.00%) Onboarding
4 13 (13.00%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (13.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (13.00%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (13.00%) Mainframe
5 7 (7.00%) Enterprise Storage
6 6 (6.00%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (6.00%) Public Cloud
7 5 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (4.00%) PKI
8 4 (4.00%) Private Cloud
8 4 (4.00%) Replication
9 3 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (3.00%) PMI
9 3 (3.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (39.00%) Linux
2 18 (18.00%) Windows
2 18 (18.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (6.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.00%) Debian
4 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.00%) Solaris
6 1 (1.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (51.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 47 (47.00%) Configuration Management
3 45 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 33 (33.00%) Containerisation
5 25 (25.00%) Migration
5 25 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 23 (23.00%) Mentoring
7 22 (22.00%) DevOps
8 21 (21.00%) Agile
9 20 (20.00%) AI
9 20 (20.00%) Software Delivery
10 19 (19.00%) Network Load Balancing
10 19 (19.00%) Project Delivery
11 18 (18.00%) Software Engineering
12 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (13.00%) Application Discovery
14 13 (13.00%) Cutover Planning
14 13 (13.00%) Database Migration
14 13 (13.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.00%) Python
2 20 (20.00%) Groovy
3 14 (14.00%) Bash
3 14 (14.00%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.00%) Go
5 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.00%) Java
6 5 (5.00%) SQL
7 2 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (37.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.00%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.00%) Degree
8 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (42.00%) Docker
2 10 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (4.00%) vSphere
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (51.00%) Puppet
2 50 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (40.00%) Ansible
4 4 (4.00%) Grafana
4 4 (4.00%) Packer
4 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.00%) Istio
5 3 (3.00%) linkerd
5 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.00%) Nagios
6 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) VMware
3 7 (7.00%) Citrix
3 7 (7.00%) Oracle
4 6 (6.00%) Cisco
5 5 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.00%) Dell
6 4 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (4.00%) Veeam
6 4 (4.00%) Zerto
7 3 (3.00%) Google
7 3 (3.00%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.00%) Apple
9 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.00%) Facebook
9 1 (1.00%) New Relic
9 1 (1.00%) Percona
9 1 (1.00%) Samsung
9 1 (1.00%) Splunk