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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 711 619 625
Rank change year-on-year -92 +6 -115
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 97 49 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.099% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.83% 0.99% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 50 39 99
10th Percentile £35,000 £61,850 £47,500
25th Percentile £44,688 £65,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% +14.77%
75th Percentile £81,875 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £157,000 £96,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £74,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year -22.82% +1.36% +5.00%

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 5,307 4,972 6,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.52% 10.02% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 3,665 2,871 3,791
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £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 £85,875
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.00% -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 27 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 14 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 27 September 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 -78 82 £65,000 -26.76% 103
UK excluding London -77 63 £57,500 -22.82% 45
North of England -25 36 £57,500 -25.57% 21
London -55 32 £92,500 +2.78% 57
Work from Home -27 25 £65,000 -27.78% 38
Yorkshire - 20 £62,500 - 4
North West -21 13 £57,500 -25.57% 14
Scotland +27 12 £35,000 -53.02% 1
South West -78 9 £65,000 -29.73% 14
West Midlands -40 4 £65,000 -3.70% 3
Midlands -51 4 £65,000 -3.70% 3
North East - 3 £50,000 - 3
East of England - 1 £33,500 - 2
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 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 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
3 1 (1.03%) JBoss
3 1 (1.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 66 (68.04%) AWS
2 50 (51.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 26 (26.80%) Azure
3 26 (26.80%) GitHub
4 24 (24.74%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (20.62%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (19.59%) Cloud Computing
7 13 (13.40%) SaaS
7 13 (13.40%) Serverless
8 10 (10.31%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (8.25%) GCP
9 8 (8.25%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (6.19%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.19%) IaaS
10 6 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (3.09%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (3.09%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) DNS
2 3 (3.09%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (3.09%) Wireless
2 3 (3.09%) Wireless Security
3 2 (2.06%) DHCP
3 2 (2.06%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) iSCSI
3 2 (2.06%) SAN
3 2 (2.06%) SSL
3 2 (2.06%) VPN
4 1 (1.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.19%) MySQL
2 6 (6.19%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.06%) Power BI
3 2 (2.06%) Power Query
3 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 37 (38.14%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.31%) Git
2 10 (10.31%) GitLab
3 6 (6.19%) Maven
4 4 (4.12%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.06%) Ant
6 2 (2.06%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (2.06%) Claude Code
6 2 (2.06%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.03%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.03%) Selenium
7 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.25%) Finance
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Front Office
6 1 (1.03%) Marketing
6 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (28.87%) Senior
2 23 (23.71%) Platform Engineer
3 20 (20.62%) Consultant
3 20 (20.62%) Professional Services Consultant
4 13 (13.40%) Migration Consultant
4 13 (13.40%) Senior Consultant
4 13 (13.40%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
5 12 (12.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Account Manager
7 9 (9.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) DBA
8 6 (6.19%) MySQL DBA
8 6 (6.19%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (52.58%) Terraform
2 20 (20.62%) Web Services
3 7 (7.22%) AWS CDK
3 7 (7.22%) Node.js
4 5 (5.15%) React
5 4 (4.12%) Spring
5 4 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.03%) CSS
6 1 (1.03%) CSS3
6 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.03%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.03%) HTML
6 1 (1.03%) HTML5
6 1 (1.03%) Kafka
6 1 (1.03%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.03%) OAuth
6 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.03%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.74%) Data Centre
2 23 (23.71%) Cloud Native
3 19 (19.59%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (19.59%) Onboarding
4 13 (13.40%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (13.40%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (13.40%) Mainframe
5 9 (9.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (6.19%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (5.15%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (4.12%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (4.12%) Private Cloud
8 4 (4.12%) Public Cloud
9 3 (3.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (3.09%) PMI
9 3 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (3.09%) Security Posture
10 2 (2.06%) PKI
10 2 (2.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (38.14%) Linux
2 14 (14.43%) Windows
2 14 (14.43%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (6.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.12%) Debian
4 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.12%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.06%) Solaris
5 2 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.03%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (49.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 45 (46.39%) CI/CD
2 45 (46.39%) Configuration Management
3 33 (34.02%) Containerisation
4 24 (24.74%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (23.71%) Mentoring
5 23 (23.71%) Migration
6 22 (22.68%) Agile
6 22 (22.68%) DevOps
7 20 (20.62%) Software Delivery
8 19 (19.59%) Network Load Balancing
8 19 (19.59%) Project Delivery
9 18 (18.56%) Software Engineering
10 17 (17.53%) AI
11 14 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (13.40%) Application Discovery
12 13 (13.40%) Cutover Planning
12 13 (13.40%) Database Migration
12 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.40%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (44.33%) Python
2 20 (20.62%) Groovy
3 14 (14.43%) Bash
4 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
5 10 (10.31%) Go
6 7 (7.22%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.15%) Java
8 4 (4.12%) SQL
9 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.43%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.09%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.03%) Degree
7 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.06%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (43.30%) Docker
2 6 (6.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.06%) vSphere
5 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (51.55%) Kubernetes
2 48 (49.48%) Puppet
3 36 (37.11%) Ansible
4 4 (4.12%) Grafana
4 4 (4.12%) Packer
4 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.09%) Istio
5 3 (3.09%) linkerd
5 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.03%) Nagios
7 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Oracle
3 6 (6.19%) VMware
4 5 (5.15%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.12%) Cisco
5 4 (4.12%) Citrix
6 3 (3.09%) Google
7 2 (2.06%) Dell
7 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.06%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.06%) Veeam
7 2 (2.06%) Zerto
7 2 (2.06%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.03%) Facebook
8 1 (1.03%) Instagram
8 1 (1.03%) New Relic
8 1 (1.03%) Percona
8 1 (1.03%) Rakuten
8 1 (1.03%) Samsung
8 1 (1.03%) Splunk