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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 634 650
Rank change year-on-year -64 +16 -174
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 84 55 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.42% 1.00% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 39 46 106
10th Percentile £35,000 £60,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £65,000 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £87,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% +16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £116,563 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £138,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.82% -0.67% +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 5,926 5,508 7,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.55% 11.01% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,282 3,312 5,001
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £47,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.45%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 13 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 16 August 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 -80 67 £65,000 -27.78% 64
UK excluding London -65 58 £57,500 -22.82% 41
North of England -35 28 £57,500 -22.82% 19
London -59 24 £92,500 +2.78% 28
Work from Home -23 19 £72,500 -12.12% 25
Yorkshire -14 18 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Scotland +14 13 £35,000 -53.02%
South West -72 10 £65,000 -31.58% 11
North West -6 9 £57,500 -23.08% 16
Midlands -24 5 £65,000 -3.70% 3
West Midlands -26 5 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 2
North East - 1 £50,000 - 1

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 2 (2.38%) Apache
1 2 (2.38%) nginx
1 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.19%) Confluence
2 1 (1.19%) Drupal
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
2 1 (1.19%) JBoss
2 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.86%) AWS
2 45 (53.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 23 (27.38%) GitHub
3 23 (27.38%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (23.81%) Azure
5 19 (22.62%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (22.62%) Cloud Computing
6 15 (17.86%) SaaS
7 13 (15.48%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (10.71%) Serverless
9 8 (9.52%) GCP
10 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
11 6 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (4.76%) IaaS
13 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
14 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
14 3 (3.57%) Cloudflare
14 3 (3.57%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (3.57%) Network Security
2 3 (3.57%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (3.57%) SSL
3 2 (2.38%) DNS
3 2 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) MySQL
2 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.38%) Power BI
4 2 (2.38%) Power Query
4 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.19%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (36.90%) Jenkins
2 13 (15.48%) Git
3 6 (7.14%) GitLab
4 4 (4.76%) Maven
5 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.38%) Ant
6 2 (2.38%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (2.38%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.19%) Gatling
7 1 (1.19%) git-flow
7 1 (1.19%) JIRA
7 1 (1.19%) JMeter
7 1 (1.19%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.19%) Selenium
7 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.19%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.57%) Finance
4 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.19%) Advertising
5 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.19%) Front Office
5 1 (1.19%) Marketing
5 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Consultant
1 20 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
1 20 (23.81%) Professional Services Consultant
1 20 (23.81%) Senior
2 13 (15.48%) Migration Consultant
2 13 (15.48%) Senior Consultant
2 13 (15.48%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
3 12 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Account Manager
5 9 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) DBA
8 6 (7.14%) MySQL DBA
8 6 (7.14%) Oracle DBA
9 5 (5.95%) Administrator
9 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.24%) Web Services
2 6 (7.14%) AWS CDK
3 4 (4.76%) Node.js
4 2 (2.38%) Kafka
5 1 (1.19%) .NET
5 1 (1.19%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.19%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.19%) CSS
5 1 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.19%) HTML
5 1 (1.19%) HTML5
5 1 (1.19%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.19%) Memcached
5 1 (1.19%) OAuth
5 1 (1.19%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.19%) OpenID
5 1 (1.19%) React
5 1 (1.19%) REST
5 1 (1.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.38%) Data Centre
2 20 (23.81%) Cloud Native
3 19 (22.62%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (22.62%) Onboarding
4 13 (15.48%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (15.48%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (15.48%) Mainframe
5 6 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.95%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.19%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (41.67%) Linux
2 12 (14.29%) Windows
3 11 (13.10%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.95%) Debian
5 5 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.95%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.38%) CentOS
6 2 (2.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.81%) Configuration Management
2 39 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 36 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 21 (25.00%) Migration
6 20 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (22.62%) Project Delivery
8 17 (20.24%) Agile
8 17 (20.24%) DevOps
9 16 (19.05%) Network Load Balancing
10 15 (17.86%) Software Delivery
11 13 (15.48%) AI
11 13 (15.48%) Application Discovery
11 13 (15.48%) Cutover Planning
11 13 (15.48%) Database Migration
11 13 (15.48%) Project Management
11 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
12 8 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (44.05%) Python
2 18 (21.43%) Groovy
3 14 (16.67%) Bash
4 9 (10.71%) Go
5 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.76%) SQL
7 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.19%) Java
9 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.19%) PHP
9 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (44.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 14 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) SLA
2 1 (1.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.19%) iptables
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (54.76%) Puppet
2 43 (51.19%) Terraform
3 40 (47.62%) Kubernetes
4 33 (39.29%) Ansible
5 5 (5.95%) Grafana
5 5 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.57%) Istio
6 3 (3.57%) linkerd
6 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.19%) Consul
8 1 (1.19%) Nagios
8 1 (1.19%) Packer
8 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 6 (7.14%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Google
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco
5 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.38%) VMware
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.19%) Facebook
6 1 (1.19%) Instagram
6 1 (1.19%) New Relic
6 1 (1.19%) Percona
6 1 (1.19%) Splunk
6 1 (1.19%) TOWER Software