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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 697 621 676
Rank change year-on-year -76 +55 -203
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 89 54 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.082% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.77% 1.07% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 44 44 101
10th Percentile £35,000 £61,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £107,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £139,250 £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 5,042 5,046 6,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.65% 10.10% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 3,605 2,960 4,341
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,269 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +1.63% -5.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £100,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.66% -7.17% -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 23 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 23 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 -84 72 £65,000 -23.53% 32
UK excluding London -74 62 £57,500 -22.82% 29
North of England -24 31 £57,500 -23.08% 17
London -42 25 £92,500 +2.78% 5
Work from Home -31 21 £70,000 -12.50% 18
Yorkshire -25 19 £62,500 -10.71% 4
Scotland +19 13 £35,000 -53.02%
South West -65 12 £65,000 -31.58% 6
North West -10 9 £57,500 -23.33% 12
West Midlands -29 4 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Midlands -31 4 £65,000 -3.70% 2
North East - 3 £50,000 - 1
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 2 (2.25%) Apache
1 2 (2.25%) nginx
1 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.12%) Drupal
2 1 (1.12%) IIS
2 1 (1.12%) JBoss
2 1 (1.12%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 60 (67.42%) AWS
2 48 (53.93%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (26.97%) GitHub
3 24 (26.97%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (23.60%) Azure
5 20 (22.47%) Amazon EC2
6 19 (21.35%) Cloud Computing
7 15 (16.85%) SaaS
8 13 (14.61%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (12.36%) Serverless
10 9 (10.11%) GCP
11 8 (8.99%) OpenShift
12 7 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
15 4 (4.49%) IaaS
15 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
16 3 (3.37%) CloudFront
16 3 (3.37%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Firewall
1 3 (3.37%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (3.37%) SSL
2 2 (2.25%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) Network Security
2 2 (2.25%) VPN
2 2 (2.25%) Wireless
2 2 (2.25%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.74%) MySQL
2 6 (6.74%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.25%) Power BI
4 2 (2.25%) Power Query
4 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.12%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (40.45%) Jenkins
2 13 (14.61%) Git
3 9 (10.11%) GitLab
4 6 (6.74%) Maven
5 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.25%) Ant
6 2 (2.25%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (2.25%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (2.25%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.12%) Gatling
7 1 (1.12%) git-flow
7 1 (1.12%) JIRA
7 1 (1.12%) JMeter
7 1 (1.12%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.12%) Selenium
7 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.12%) Vagrant
General
1 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.87%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.62%) Finance
4 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Advertising
5 1 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.12%) Front Office
5 1 (1.12%) Marketing
5 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) Senior
2 21 (23.60%) Platform Engineer
3 20 (22.47%) Consultant
3 20 (22.47%) Professional Services Consultant
4 15 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (14.61%) Migration Consultant
5 13 (14.61%) Senior Consultant
5 13 (14.61%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
6 10 (11.24%) Account Manager
6 10 (11.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) DBA
9 6 (6.74%) MySQL DBA
9 6 (6.74%) Oracle DBA
10 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (4.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (51.69%) Terraform
2 18 (20.22%) Web Services
3 8 (8.99%) AWS CDK
4 6 (6.74%) Node.js
5 2 (2.25%) Kafka
6 1 (1.12%) .NET
6 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.12%) CSS
6 1 (1.12%) CSS3
6 1 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.12%) HTML
6 1 (1.12%) HTML5
6 1 (1.12%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.12%) Memcached
6 1 (1.12%) OAuth
6 1 (1.12%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.12%) OpenID
6 1 (1.12%) React
6 1 (1.12%) REST
6 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.97%) Data Centre
2 21 (23.60%) Cloud Native
3 19 (21.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (21.35%) Onboarding
4 13 (14.61%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (14.61%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (14.61%) Mainframe
5 6 (6.74%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (5.62%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (4.49%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.25%) PMI
8 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (39.33%) Linux
2 12 (13.48%) Windows
3 11 (12.36%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (6.74%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (4.49%) Debian
6 4 (4.49%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.25%) Solaris
8 1 (1.12%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (49.44%) Configuration Management
2 42 (47.19%) CI/CD
3 40 (44.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (37.08%) Containerisation
5 22 (24.72%) Mentoring
6 21 (23.60%) Migration
6 21 (23.60%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (22.47%) DevOps
8 19 (21.35%) Agile
8 19 (21.35%) Project Delivery
9 18 (20.22%) Software Delivery
10 17 (19.10%) Network Load Balancing
11 14 (15.73%) Software Engineering
12 13 (14.61%) AI
12 13 (14.61%) Application Discovery
12 13 (14.61%) Cutover Planning
12 13 (14.61%) Database Migration
12 13 (14.61%) Project Management
13 9 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.07%) Python
2 19 (21.35%) Groovy
3 16 (17.98%) Bash
4 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.11%) Go
6 4 (4.49%) SQL
7 3 (3.37%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.12%) Java
9 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.12%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (43.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.85%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.25%) SLA
2 1 (1.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (43.82%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.12%) iptables
3 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (53.93%) Puppet
2 43 (48.31%) Kubernetes
3 35 (39.33%) Ansible
4 5 (5.62%) Grafana
4 5 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.37%) Istio
5 3 (3.37%) linkerd
5 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.12%) Consul
7 1 (1.12%) Nagios
7 1 (1.12%) Packer
7 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) Oracle
3 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.49%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) Cisco
5 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.25%) VMware
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) Facebook
6 1 (1.12%) Instagram
6 1 (1.12%) New Relic
6 1 (1.12%) Percona
6 1 (1.12%) Splunk
6 1 (1.12%) TOWER Software