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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 683 550 666
Rank change year-on-year -133 +116 -341
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 53 96 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.12% 1.88% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 44 77 167
10th Percentile £35,000 £62,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £50,188 £65,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +13.35% -5.90%
75th Percentile £76,469 £97,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £83,506 £128,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +3.57% -

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 4,744 5,095 9,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.11% 11.95% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,329 3,056 7,048
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,212 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +10.74% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -7.60%

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 23 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 12 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 23 May 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
UK excluding London -40 44 £55,000 -24.14% 32
England -139 37 £66,250 -17.19% 49
Work from Home -5 19 £73,625 +2.27% 18
North of England -58 15 £67,500 -6.24% 15
Scotland +15 13 £35,000 -53.02% 2
South West -46 12 £60,000 -36.84% 11
Yorkshire -38 8 £73,750 -1.50% 3
London -76 8 £82,625 -8.19% 17
North West -14 7 £65,000 -9.71% 12
Midlands -33 2 - - 3
West Midlands -36 2 - - 3
Wales - 2 £55,000 -

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 1 (1.89%) Apache
1 1 (1.89%) Confluence
1 1 (1.89%) Drupal
1 1 (1.89%) IIS
1 1 (1.89%) nginx
1 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 25 (47.17%) AWS
2 15 (28.30%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (24.53%) GitHub
3 13 (24.53%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (22.64%) SaaS
5 11 (20.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (20.75%) Azure
6 8 (15.09%) Serverless
7 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
7 7 (13.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (11.32%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (11.32%) CloudFront
8 6 (11.32%) GCP
9 5 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (3.77%) AWS CodePipeline
10 2 (3.77%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (1.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) Network Security
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
3 2 (3.77%) SSL
4 1 (1.89%) DHCP
4 1 (1.89%) DNS
4 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.21%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (13.21%) MySQL
2 7 (13.21%) Oracle Database
2 7 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.89%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.89%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.32%) Git
3 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.66%) Vagrant
5 2 (3.77%) Maven
6 1 (1.89%) Gatling
6 1 (1.89%) git-flow
6 1 (1.89%) GitLab
6 1 (1.89%) JIRA
6 1 (1.89%) JMeter
6 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.66%) Finance
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Advertising
5 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Electronics
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing
5 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (18.87%) Account Manager
3 9 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) DBA
4 7 (13.21%) Oracle DBA
4 7 (13.21%) Senior
5 6 (11.32%) MySQL DBA
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (7.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Platform Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) Web Services
2 2 (3.77%) Kafka
2 2 (3.77%) React
2 2 (3.77%) Spring
2 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.89%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.89%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.89%) Memcached
3 1 (1.89%) Node.js
3 1 (1.89%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.89%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (64.15%) Linux
2 12 (22.64%) Windows
3 8 (15.09%) Windows Server
4 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (13.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (9.43%) Debian
5 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.77%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.94%) CI/CD
2 26 (49.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (32.08%) Configuration Management
3 17 (32.08%) Containerisation
4 15 (28.30%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (24.53%) DevOps
6 12 (22.64%) Agile
7 11 (20.75%) Software Engineering
8 8 (15.09%) Network Load Balancing
8 8 (15.09%) Software Delivery
9 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
10 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Automation
11 4 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (7.55%) Observability
12 3 (5.66%) Clean Code
12 3 (5.66%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (5.66%) High Availability
12 3 (5.66%) Network Architecture
12 3 (5.66%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) Groovy
3 8 (15.09%) Bash
4 4 (7.55%) Java
4 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.77%) Go
5 2 (3.77%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.77%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (41.51%) Docker
2 4 (7.55%) iptables
2 4 (7.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (60.38%) Terraform
2 30 (56.60%) Ansible
3 23 (43.40%) Kubernetes
3 23 (43.40%) Puppet
4 10 (18.87%) Grafana
4 10 (18.87%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.55%) ZABBIX
6 3 (5.66%) Packer
6 3 (5.66%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.89%) Consul
7 1 (1.89%) Istio
7 1 (1.89%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.55%) Cribl.io
3 4 (7.55%) VMware
4 3 (5.66%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) TOWER Software