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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 672 548 654
Rank change year-on-year -124 +106 -331
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 52 109 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.16% 2.27% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 41 90 170
10th Percentile £35,000 £61,250 £42,963
25th Percentile £51,250 £66,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +13.35% -5.90%
75th Percentile £76,250 £97,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,938 £140,000 £95,125
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 4,494 4,803 9,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.00% 11.35% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,120 3,321 7,239
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,120 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +15.64% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,150
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +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 1 May 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 1 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 -73 41 £55,000 -24.14% 52
England -132 38 £67,500 -15.63% 57
Work from Home -20 18 £72,375 +0.53% 12
Scotland -18 11 £35,000 -47.96% 2
South West -51 11 £55,000 -42.11% 11
North of England -74 11 £66,250 -8.62% 12
London -76 10 £75,000 -16.67% 8
North West -40 6 £66,250 -8.62% 4
Yorkshire -58 5 - - 7
South East -28 4 - - 9
West Midlands -31 2 - - 5
Midlands -40 2 - - 10
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 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 4 (7.69%) Confluence
1 4 (7.69%) IIS
2 3 (5.77%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Drupal
3 1 (1.92%) nginx
3 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) AWS
2 11 (21.15%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (21.15%) SaaS
3 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) GitHub
3 9 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (15.38%) Serverless
5 7 (13.46%) Amazon S3
5 7 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (11.54%) CloudFront
6 6 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (9.62%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (9.62%) GCP
8 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (3.85%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) Network Security
2 4 (7.69%) DNS
2 4 (7.69%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) SSL
4 1 (1.92%) DHCP
4 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (11.54%) MySQL
3 6 (11.54%) Oracle Database
3 6 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.92%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.92%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Jenkins
2 8 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 5 (9.62%) Git
4 4 (7.69%) JIRA
5 3 (5.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (5.77%) GitLab
5 3 (5.77%) Vagrant
6 2 (3.85%) Maven
7 1 (1.92%) Gatling
7 1 (1.92%) git-flow
7 1 (1.92%) JMeter
7 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Advertising
6 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Electronics
6 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (17.31%) Account Manager
2 9 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) DBA
3 6 (11.54%) Oracle DBA
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) MySQL DBA
5 4 (7.69%) Junior
5 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Administrator
7 2 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Kafka
1 5 (9.62%) Web Services
2 3 (5.77%) Middleware
3 2 (3.85%) React
3 2 (3.85%) Spring
3 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.92%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.92%) Memcached
4 1 (1.92%) Node.js
4 1 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Driving Licence
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (59.62%) Linux
2 14 (26.92%) Windows
3 10 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (11.54%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (7.69%) Debian
6 4 (7.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.85%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (34.62%) Configuration Management
4 16 (30.77%) DevOps
5 14 (26.92%) Agile
6 13 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 12 (23.08%) Containerisation
8 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
9 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (9.62%) Collaborative Working
12 4 (7.69%) Business Development
12 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 4 (7.69%) Network Load Balancing
12 4 (7.69%) Software Delivery
13 3 (5.77%) High Availability
13 3 (5.77%) Performance Monitoring
13 3 (5.77%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (30.77%) Python
2 10 (19.23%) Bash
3 7 (13.46%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) Groovy
5 4 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.92%) Go
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) AWS Certification
2 5 (9.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (7.69%) City & Guilds
3 4 (7.69%) NVQ Level 3
3 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (38.46%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.69%) iptables
2 4 (7.69%) VMware NSX
3 3 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (59.62%) Ansible
2 27 (51.92%) Terraform
3 24 (46.15%) Puppet
4 21 (40.38%) Kubernetes
5 9 (17.31%) Grafana
5 9 (17.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.69%) ZABBIX
7 3 (5.77%) Packer
8 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.92%) Consul
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Oracle
2 8 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 7 (13.46%) VMware
4 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.69%) Cribl.io
6 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.85%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) SAP
8 1 (1.92%) TOWER Software