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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 575 520
Rank change year-on-year -39 -55 -221
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 35 136 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.84% 2.30% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 28 88 160
10th Percentile £53,375 £54,250 £42,963
25th Percentile £71,781 £64,938 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,313 £76,250 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% +8.04% -5.90%
75th Percentile £105,625 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £138,250 £122,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -7.69%

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 4,159 5,920 7,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.90% 11.05% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,942 3,602 6,091
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,275 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,404 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +6.78% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -40 34 £82,625 +6.61% 51
London +10 17 £88,750 -1.39% 11
UK excluding London -12 17 £80,000 +14.29% 46
Work from Home +40 15 £80,000 +10.34% 50
South West -1 7 £90,000 +9.09% 7
South East +28 6 - - 16
North West +6 4 £72,500 - 4
North of England -14 4 £72,500 - 6

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 (11.43%) Confluence
1 4 (11.43%) IIS
1 4 (11.43%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.71%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) OpenShift
3 8 (22.86%) Azure
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (20.00%) Serverless
5 6 (17.14%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (14.29%) GitHub
7 4 (11.43%) GCP
7 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (5.71%) CloudFront
8 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (8.57%) AMQP
3 2 (5.71%) Network Security
3 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.86%) DHCP
4 1 (2.86%) Firewall
4 1 (2.86%) HTTP
4 1 (2.86%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.14%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) InfluxDB
3 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) MySQL
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (37.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.14%) Bitbucket
2 6 (17.14%) GitLab
3 5 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (11.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.71%) JMeter
5 2 (5.71%) JUnit
5 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (37.14%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Electronics
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineer
1 6 (17.14%) Senior
2 4 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Junior
3 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Site Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Java Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Kafka Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Linux Specialist
4 2 (5.71%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (2.86%) Administrator
5 1 (2.86%) DBA
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.86%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) Kafka
2 6 (17.14%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (11.43%) Middleware
4 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.86%) OpenID
6 1 (2.86%) React
6 1 (2.86%) SAML
6 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 21 (60.00%) Linux
2 8 (22.86%) Windows
3 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.86%) AIX
6 1 (2.86%) Debian
6 1 (2.86%) Solaris
6 1 (2.86%) Unix
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 15 (42.86%) DevOps
3 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (34.29%) Configuration Management
5 9 (25.71%) Agile
5 9 (25.71%) Containerisation
5 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Automation
6 8 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (20.00%) Observability
8 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (11.43%) Business Development
9 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.43%) Microservices
9 4 (11.43%) Performance Monitoring
10 3 (8.57%) Low Latency
10 3 (8.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) Java
3 8 (22.86%) PowerShell
4 7 (20.00%) Bash
5 5 (14.29%) SQL
6 4 (11.43%) Go
6 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.71%) Scala
8 1 (2.86%) C++
8 1 (2.86%) Ruby
8 1 (2.86%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) City & Guilds
2 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) NVQ Level 3
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) CISSP
5 1 (2.86%) GCED
5 1 (2.86%) GCIA
5 1 (2.86%) GCIH
5 1 (2.86%) GIAC
5 1 (2.86%) GREM
5 1 (2.86%) GSEC
5 1 (2.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
3 1 (2.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) Docker
2 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.71%) iptables
4 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (82.86%) Ansible
2 17 (48.57%) Puppet
3 15 (42.86%) Terraform
4 14 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 10 (28.57%) Grafana
6 9 (25.71%) Prometheus
7 3 (8.57%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (5.71%) ZABBIX
9 1 (2.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 1 (2.86%) Podman
9 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) VMware
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.71%) Cribl.io
5 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock
5 2 (5.71%) Mellanox
5 2 (5.71%) Solarflare
5 2 (5.71%) Splunk
6 1 (2.86%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.86%) Okta
6 1 (2.86%) Ping Identity
6 1 (2.86%) SAP