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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 558 557
Rank change year-on-year -73 -1 -248
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 33 138 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% 2.40% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 26 94 185
10th Percentile £51,875 £57,750 £42,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £65,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +8.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile £83,938 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £133,625 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.60% +15.19% -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 4,377 5,744 8,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.53% 11.57% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,036 3,527 7,058
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,900 £32,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,677
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -2.62%

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 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 8 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 14 February 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 -55 32 £75,000 -3.23% 20
UK excluding London -34 17 £55,000 -23.60% 20
Work from Home +12 16 £74,750 +3.83% 21
London -17 15 £78,813 -14.80% 2
South East +13 6 - - 2
North West -9 6 £67,500 -6.90% 2
North of England -34 6 £67,500 -6.57% 2
South West -17 5 £52,500 -41.67% 8

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 (12.12%) Confluence
1 4 (12.12%) IIS
1 4 (12.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) OpenShift
4 6 (18.18%) Serverless
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (9.09%) CloudFront
6 3 (9.09%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) DNS
2 3 (9.09%) Network Security
3 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.03%) DHCP
4 1 (3.03%) Firewall
4 1 (3.03%) HTTP
4 1 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) Bitbucket
3 6 (18.18%) GitLab
4 4 (12.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (12.12%) JIRA
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) JMeter
5 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.06%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Legal
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Java Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Junior
4 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) DBA
5 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.06%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Kafka
2 4 (12.12%) Middleware
2 4 (12.12%) Spring
3 2 (6.06%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.06%) React
3 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.03%) OpenID
4 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (60.61%) Linux
2 10 (30.30%) Windows
3 6 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (3.03%) AIX
6 1 (3.03%) Debian
6 1 (3.03%) Solaris
6 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 14 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (39.39%) Configuration Management
3 13 (39.39%) DevOps
4 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (24.24%) Agile
7 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
8 6 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.15%) Observability
10 4 (12.12%) Business Development
10 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (12.12%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (12.12%) Microservices
10 4 (12.12%) Performance Monitoring
11 3 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
11 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) Bash
2 8 (24.24%) PowerShell
3 7 (21.21%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.03%) C++
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
1 4 (12.12%) City & Guilds
1 4 (12.12%) NVQ Level 3
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) CISSP
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) GCED
4 1 (3.03%) GCIA
4 1 (3.03%) GCIH
4 1 (3.03%) GIAC
4 1 (3.03%) GREM
4 1 (3.03%) GSEC
4 1 (3.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
3 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
4 3 (9.09%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (78.79%) Ansible
2 19 (57.58%) Puppet
3 17 (51.52%) Terraform
4 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
5 9 (27.27%) Grafana
5 9 (27.27%) Prometheus
6 4 (12.12%) ZABBIX
7 2 (6.06%) Packer
8 1 (3.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (3.03%) Podman
8 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) VMware
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
4 4 (12.12%) Atlassian
4 4 (12.12%) Cribl.io
5 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.06%) ForgeRock
7 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
7 1 (3.03%) Google
7 1 (3.03%) Okta
7 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity
7 1 (3.03%) SAP
7 1 (3.03%) Splunk