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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 597 693
Rank change year-on-year -82 +96 -352
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 60 78 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.19% 1.45% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44 66 145
10th Percentile £35,000 £62,500 £42,400
25th Percentile £50,188 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £76,250 £97,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £120,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year -21.87% +10.76% -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 5,034 5,381 9,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.35% 11.99% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,653 3,147 6,932
10th Percentile £34,000 £33,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,250 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +6.48% -9.28%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -30 48 £56,250 -21.87% 14
England -110 44 £65,000 -13.33% 24
Work from Home +4 22 £72,500 +0.71% 7
North of England -25 19 £67,500 -6.24% 7
Scotland +22 13 £35,000 -53.02%
Yorkshire -31 12 £73,750 -1.50% 3
South West -54 11 £65,000 -31.58% 6
London -63 11 £82,625 -8.19% 12
North West -4 7 £65,000 -9.71% 4
West Midlands -19 3 £65,000 -3.70%
Midlands -27 3 £65,000 -3.70%
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 (1.67%) Apache
1 1 (1.67%) Confluence
1 1 (1.67%) Drupal
1 1 (1.67%) IIS
1 1 (1.67%) nginx
1 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) AWS
2 18 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (28.33%) GitHub
3 17 (28.33%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (21.67%) SaaS
5 11 (18.33%) Azure
6 8 (13.33%) Serverless
6 8 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (11.67%) GCP
8 6 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (10.00%) CloudFront
9 5 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.33%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Network Security
2 4 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (3.33%) SSL
4 1 (1.67%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) MySQL
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle Database
2 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (38.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (11.67%) Git
3 5 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.00%) Vagrant
5 2 (3.33%) GitLab
5 2 (3.33%) Maven
6 1 (1.67%) Gatling
6 1 (1.67%) git-flow
6 1 (1.67%) JIRA
6 1 (1.67%) JMeter
6 1 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.33%) Finance
4 1 (1.67%) Advertising
4 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Account Manager
4 9 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) DBA
5 7 (11.67%) MySQL DBA
5 7 (11.67%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Consultant
7 4 (6.67%) Professional Services Consultant
7 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Platform Manager
9 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (21.67%) Web Services
2 2 (3.33%) Kafka
2 2 (3.33%) React
2 2 (3.33%) Spring
2 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.67%) .NET
3 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.67%) Memcached
3 1 (1.67%) Node.js
3 1 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (60.00%) Linux
2 12 (20.00%) Windows
3 8 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (8.33%) Debian
5 5 (8.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (51.67%) CI/CD
2 29 (48.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (36.67%) Containerisation
4 21 (35.00%) Configuration Management
5 20 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (21.67%) Agile
6 13 (21.67%) DevOps
7 12 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
7 12 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 10 (16.67%) Software Delivery
9 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.33%) Migration
11 4 (6.67%) Clean Code
11 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (6.67%) Observability
11 4 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
12 3 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (5.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.67%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) Groovy
3 9 (15.00%) Bash
4 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.00%) Java
6 2 (3.33%) Go
6 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 5 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (45.00%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) iptables
2 4 (6.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (58.33%) Terraform
2 28 (46.67%) Ansible
2 28 (46.67%) Kubernetes
3 27 (45.00%) Puppet
4 10 (16.67%) Grafana
4 10 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.67%) ZABBIX
6 3 (5.00%) Packer
6 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.33%) Istio
7 2 (3.33%) linkerd
8 1 (1.67%) Consul
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.67%) Cribl.io
4 4 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (1.67%) Facebook
5 1 (1.67%) Instagram
5 1 (1.67%) TOWER Software