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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 702 622 654
Rank change year-on-year -80 +32 -157
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 91 51 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.78% 1.03% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 46 41 101
10th Percentile £35,000 £59,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £65,000 £61,250
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 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,375 £140,000 £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 5,109 4,959 6,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.50% 10.00% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,618 2,868 3,923
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,803 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -5.47% -1.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -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 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 14 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 13 September 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 -73 75 £65,000 -26.76% 118
UK excluding London -64 62 £57,500 -22.82% 48
North of England -29 33 £57,500 -25.57% 25
London -51 27 £92,500 +2.78% 75
Work from Home -32 23 £70,000 -17.65% 36
Yorkshire - 19 £62,500 - 5
Scotland +19 13 £35,000 -53.02% 2
North West -10 11 £57,500 -25.57% 18
South West -64 10 £65,000 -29.73% 10
West Midlands -38 4 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Midlands -55 4 £65,000 -3.70% 3
North East - 3 £50,000 - 2
Wales - 1 £55,000 - 3
East of England - 1 £33,500 - 3

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 (2.20%) Apache
1 2 (2.20%) nginx
1 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) Drupal
2 1 (1.10%) IIS
2 1 (1.10%) JBoss
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (67.03%) AWS
2 49 (53.85%) AWS CloudFormation
3 24 (26.37%) GitHub
3 24 (26.37%) GitHub Actions
4 23 (25.27%) Azure
5 19 (20.88%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (20.88%) Cloud Computing
6 14 (15.38%) SaaS
7 12 (13.19%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (13.19%) Serverless
8 9 (9.89%) GCP
9 8 (8.79%) OpenShift
10 7 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (5.49%) IaaS
11 5 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (3.30%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (3.30%) Cloudflare
13 3 (3.30%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.20%) DNS
2 2 (2.20%) Firewall
2 2 (2.20%) SSL
2 2 (2.20%) VPN
2 2 (2.20%) Wireless
2 2 (2.20%) Wireless Security
3 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.59%) MySQL
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle Database
2 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.20%) Power BI
4 2 (2.20%) Power Query
4 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.10%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (38.46%) Jenkins
2 11 (12.09%) Git
3 10 (10.99%) GitLab
4 6 (6.59%) Maven
5 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.30%) Vagrant
6 2 (2.20%) Ant
6 2 (2.20%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (2.20%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.10%) Gatling
7 1 (1.10%) git-flow
7 1 (1.10%) JIRA
7 1 (1.10%) JMeter
7 1 (1.10%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.10%) Selenium
7 1 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (16.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.59%) Finance
2 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
3 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.10%) Advertising
4 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.10%) Front Office
4 1 (1.10%) Marketing
4 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Senior
2 21 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
3 20 (21.98%) Consultant
3 20 (21.98%) Professional Services Consultant
4 14 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
5 13 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
5 13 (14.29%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
6 10 (10.99%) Account Manager
6 10 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) DBA
9 6 (6.59%) MySQL DBA
9 6 (6.59%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (4.40%) Administrator
10 4 (4.40%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (52.75%) Terraform
2 18 (19.78%) Web Services
3 8 (8.79%) AWS CDK
4 7 (7.69%) Node.js
5 3 (3.30%) React
6 2 (2.20%) Spring
6 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.10%) .NET
7 1 (1.10%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.10%) CSS
7 1 (1.10%) CSS3
7 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.10%) HTML
7 1 (1.10%) HTML5
7 1 (1.10%) Kafka
7 1 (1.10%) Keycloak
7 1 (1.10%) Memcached
7 1 (1.10%) OAuth
7 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.10%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.37%) Data Centre
2 22 (24.18%) Cloud Native
3 19 (20.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (20.88%) Onboarding
4 13 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (14.29%) Mainframe
5 6 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (6.59%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (5.49%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.30%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (2.20%) PMI
9 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (38.46%) Linux
2 12 (13.19%) Windows
2 12 (13.19%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (6.59%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (6.59%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (4.40%) Debian
5 4 (4.40%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.20%) Solaris
7 1 (1.10%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.25%) CI/CD
2 42 (46.15%) Configuration Management
3 41 (45.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (35.16%) Containerisation
5 22 (24.18%) Mentoring
6 21 (23.08%) DevOps
6 21 (23.08%) Migration
6 21 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (21.98%) Agile
8 19 (20.88%) Project Delivery
9 18 (19.78%) Software Delivery
10 17 (18.68%) Network Load Balancing
11 16 (17.58%) Software Engineering
12 14 (15.38%) AI
13 13 (14.29%) Application Discovery
13 13 (14.29%) Cutover Planning
13 13 (14.29%) Database Migration
13 13 (14.29%) Project Management
14 11 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.96%) Python
2 19 (20.88%) Groovy
3 14 (15.38%) Bash
4 10 (10.99%) Go
5 9 (9.89%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.49%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.40%) SQL
8 3 (3.30%) Java
9 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (41.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) Degree
6 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.20%) SLA
2 1 (1.10%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (43.96%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (50.55%) Puppet
2 45 (49.45%) Kubernetes
3 34 (37.36%) Ansible
4 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.30%) Istio
5 3 (3.30%) linkerd
5 3 (3.30%) Packer
5 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.10%) Consul
7 1 (1.10%) Nagios
7 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Oracle
3 6 (6.59%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.40%) Google
5 3 (3.30%) Cisco
5 3 (3.30%) VMware
6 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.10%) Citrix
7 1 (1.10%) Facebook
7 1 (1.10%) Instagram
7 1 (1.10%) New Relic
7 1 (1.10%) Percona
7 1 (1.10%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.10%) Zscaler