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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 702 628 683
Rank change year-on-year -74 +55 -223
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 79 59 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.36% 1.05% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 40 50 113
10th Percentile £35,000 £61,050 £47,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £103,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,875 £120,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £74,870 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.20% -0.17% +7.14%

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 5,794 5,618 7,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.60% 11.32% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,231 3,353 5,253
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £43,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,618 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +1.96% -4.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -72 63 £65,000 -23.53% 55
UK excluding London -45 53 £57,500 -23.20% 37
London -47 25 £92,500 +2.78% 23
North of England -26 24 £61,250 -18.19% 18
Work from Home -14 20 £71,250 -4.83% 21
Yorkshire -25 14 £72,500 -3.16% 2
Scotland +18 13 £35,000 -53.02% 1
South West -61 10 £65,000 -31.58% 8
North West -3 9 £61,250 -18.06% 16
Midlands -28 4 £65,000 -3.70% 2
West Midlands -36 4 £65,000 -3.70% 1
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 1
North East - 1 £50,000 -

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 (2.53%) Apache
1 2 (2.53%) nginx
2 1 (1.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.27%) Drupal
2 1 (1.27%) IIS
2 1 (1.27%) JBoss
2 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 54 (68.35%) AWS
2 40 (50.63%) AWS CloudFormation
3 20 (25.32%) GitHub
3 20 (25.32%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (24.05%) Cloud Computing
5 18 (22.78%) Azure
6 17 (21.52%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (17.72%) SaaS
8 12 (15.19%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (13.92%) Serverless
10 9 (11.39%) GCP
11 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
12 4 (5.06%) CloudFront
12 4 (5.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (5.06%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.80%) Amazon ECR
13 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Firewall
1 4 (5.06%) Network Security
2 3 (3.80%) SSL
3 2 (2.53%) DNS
3 2 (2.53%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.59%) MySQL
2 6 (7.59%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.27%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Power BI
4 1 (1.27%) Power Query
4 1 (1.27%) Redis
4 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (35.44%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.92%) Git
3 6 (7.59%) GitLab
4 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.80%) Maven
6 2 (2.53%) Vagrant
7 1 (1.27%) Ant
7 1 (1.27%) Apache Ivy
7 1 (1.27%) Gatling
7 1 (1.27%) git-flow
7 1 (1.27%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.27%) JIRA
7 1 (1.27%) JMeter
7 1 (1.27%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.27%) Selenium
7 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (11.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.13%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.80%) Finance
4 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Advertising
5 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Front Office
5 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.27%) Marketing
5 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (26.58%) Senior
2 20 (25.32%) Consultant
2 20 (25.32%) Professional Services Consultant
3 18 (22.78%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (16.46%) Migration Consultant
4 13 (16.46%) Senior Consultant
4 13 (16.46%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
5 11 (13.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (12.66%) Account Manager
7 9 (11.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.59%) DBA
8 6 (7.59%) MySQL DBA
8 6 (7.59%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (5.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) Web Services
2 4 (5.06%) AWS CDK
2 4 (5.06%) Node.js
3 2 (2.53%) Kafka
3 2 (2.53%) React
4 1 (1.27%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.27%) CSS3
4 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.27%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.27%) HTML
4 1 (1.27%) HTML5
4 1 (1.27%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.27%) Memcached
4 1 (1.27%) OAuth
4 1 (1.27%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.27%) OpenID
4 1 (1.27%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) Spring
4 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.11%) Data Centre
2 19 (24.05%) Enterprise Cloud
2 19 (24.05%) Onboarding
3 18 (22.78%) Cloud Native
4 13 (16.46%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (16.46%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (16.46%) Mainframe
5 6 (7.59%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.53%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.53%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 32 (40.51%) Linux
2 11 (13.92%) Windows
3 9 (11.39%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.59%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (7.59%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (7.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (6.33%) Debian
5 5 (6.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (6.33%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.53%) CentOS
7 1 (1.27%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (49.37%) Configuration Management
2 37 (46.84%) CI/CD
3 32 (40.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (35.44%) Containerisation
5 23 (29.11%) Mentoring
6 21 (26.58%) Migration
7 19 (24.05%) Project Delivery
8 18 (22.78%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (21.52%) Agile
10 16 (20.25%) DevOps
11 13 (16.46%) Application Discovery
11 13 (16.46%) Cutover Planning
11 13 (16.46%) Database Migration
11 13 (16.46%) Network Load Balancing
11 13 (16.46%) Project Management
12 12 (15.19%) AI
12 12 (15.19%) Software Delivery
13 11 (13.92%) Software Engineering
14 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.24%) Python
2 15 (18.99%) Groovy
3 13 (16.46%) Bash
4 7 (8.86%) Go
5 6 (7.59%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.53%) Java
7 2 (2.53%) SQL
7 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.19%) AWS Certification
3 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.80%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.27%) NCSC
1 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (43.04%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) iptables
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (54.43%) Puppet
2 38 (48.10%) Terraform
3 36 (45.57%) Kubernetes
4 30 (37.97%) Ansible
5 6 (7.59%) Grafana
5 6 (7.59%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.80%) Istio
6 3 (3.80%) linkerd
6 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.53%) Packer
8 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.27%) Consul
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.27%) Nagios
8 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Red Hat
3 6 (7.59%) Oracle
4 5 (6.33%) Google
5 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco
5 1 (1.27%) Facebook
5 1 (1.27%) Instagram
5 1 (1.27%) New Relic
5 1 (1.27%) Percona
5 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.27%) Splunk
5 1 (1.27%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.27%) VMware