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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 519 598
Rank change year-on-year -150 +79 -289
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 29 122 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.66% 2.48% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23 99 180
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £77,313 £97,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,788 £124,000 £96,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.60% +10.76% -6.40%

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 4,406 4,918 9,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.89% 11.50% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,045 3,424 7,169
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -5.26%

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 18 March 2026.

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 18 March 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 -120 27 £74,750 -3.55% 30
UK excluding London -78 18 £55,000 -23.60% 25
Work from Home -17 13 £72,375 +0.53% 16
London -53 10 £75,000 -20.00% 8
South West -29 7 £52,500 -43.24% 10
South East -6 5 - - 4
North West -37 4 £61,250 -15.52% 4
North of England -70 4 £61,250 -15.52% 6
West Midlands -2 1 - - 2
Midlands -20 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 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 4 (13.79%) Confluence
1 4 (13.79%) IIS
1 4 (13.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 7 (24.14%) Serverless
3 6 (20.69%) OpenShift
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.24%) Azure
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (13.79%) CloudFront
5 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.90%) GCP
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) DNS
1 5 (17.24%) Network Security
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 1 (3.45%) DHCP
3 1 (3.45%) HTTP
3 1 (3.45%) SSL
3 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.90%) MySQL
4 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.45%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (31.03%) Bitbucket
3 5 (17.24%) GitLab
4 4 (13.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (13.79%) JIRA
5 2 (6.90%) Git
5 2 (6.90%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.45%) JMeter
6 1 (3.45%) JUnit
6 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Senior
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Junior
4 4 (13.79%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) DBA
6 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Kafka Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.45%) Security Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
2 4 (13.79%) Middleware
3 3 (10.34%) Spring
4 2 (6.90%) React
4 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.45%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Linux
2 10 (34.48%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (20.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.45%) CentOS
6 1 (3.45%) Debian
6 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
1 16 (55.17%) Configuration Management
2 14 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (41.38%) DevOps
4 10 (34.48%) Agile
5 9 (31.03%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.79%) Business Development
8 4 (13.79%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.34%) Observability
10 2 (6.90%) Customer Experience
10 2 (6.90%) Decision-Making
10 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 2 (6.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) Bash
3 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.24%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (13.79%) City & Guilds
2 4 (13.79%) NVQ Level 3
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) iptables
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (75.86%) Ansible
2 17 (58.62%) Puppet
3 16 (55.17%) Terraform
4 14 (48.28%) Kubernetes
5 9 (31.03%) Grafana
5 9 (31.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (13.79%) ZABBIX
7 2 (6.90%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) VMware
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 5 (17.24%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.79%) Atlassian
4 4 (13.79%) Cribl.io
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.45%) ForgeRock
6 1 (3.45%) Google
6 1 (3.45%) SAP