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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 529 592
Rank change year-on-year -138 +63 -282
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 30 113 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.27% 0.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 2.42% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 25 94 183
10th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £45,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £77,125 £97,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £98,075 £134,000 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £71,996 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.61% +10.76% -6.40%

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 4,418 4,679 9,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.74% 11.37% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,048 3,402 7,211
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

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 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 11 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 25 March 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 -131 28 £74,750 -3.55% 24
UK excluding London -90 19 £55,000 -23.61% 25
Work from Home -20 13 £70,000 -2.77% 11
London -57 10 £75,000 -18.92% 6
South West -42 8 £52,500 -43.24% 9
North West -42 5 £67,500 -6.90%
North of England -73 5 £67,500 -6.90% 2
South East -30 4 - - 4
West Midlands -3 1 - - 2
Midlands -36 1 - - 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 5 (16.67%) Confluence
1 5 (16.67%) IIS
2 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) Drupal
3 1 (3.33%) nginx
3 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Serverless
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 5 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 5 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (10.00%) GCP
7 2 (6.67%) GitHub
7 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) DNS
1 5 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) DHCP
3 1 (3.33%) HTTP
3 1 (3.33%) SSL
3 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) MySQL
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.33%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (30.00%) Bitbucket
3 5 (16.67%) GitLab
3 5 (16.67%) JIRA
4 4 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (10.00%) Vagrant
6 2 (6.67%) Git
7 1 (3.33%) Gatling
7 1 (3.33%) JMeter
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Electronics
5 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Senior
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Junior
4 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) DBA
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Kafka
2 4 (13.33%) Middleware
3 2 (6.67%) React
3 2 (6.67%) Spring
3 2 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.33%) Memcached
4 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.33%) REST
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (60.00%) Linux
2 11 (36.67%) Windows
3 7 (23.33%) Windows Server
4 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (3.33%) CentOS
7 1 (3.33%) Debian
7 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) CI/CD
1 16 (53.33%) Configuration Management
2 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (43.33%) DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) Agile
5 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 9 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.33%) Business Development
8 4 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (13.33%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 2 (6.67%) Coaching
10 2 (6.67%) High Availability
10 2 (6.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (36.67%) Python
2 10 (33.33%) Bash
3 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) City & Guilds
3 4 (13.33%) NVQ Level 3
4 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Docker
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) iptables
3 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (13.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (73.33%) Ansible
2 18 (60.00%) Puppet
3 17 (56.67%) Terraform
4 14 (46.67%) Kubernetes
5 9 (30.00%) Grafana
5 9 (30.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (13.33%) ZABBIX
7 3 (10.00%) Packer
8 1 (3.33%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) VMware
2 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 4 (13.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (13.33%) Cribl.io
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (6.67%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) ForgeRock
7 1 (3.33%) SAP
7 1 (3.33%) TOWER Software