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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 603 605 515
Rank change year-on-year +2 -90 -130
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 34 153 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 2.28% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 26 96 146
10th Percentile £63,750 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £123,438 £88,063 £81,250
90th Percentile £225,000 £98,474 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% +20.83% -7.69%

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 4,499 6,698 8,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.44% 9.78% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,186 4,042 6,578
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,520 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,125 £102,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

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 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 8 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 22 November 2025. 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 -7 34 £90,000 +20.00% 52
London +18 20 £90,000 +5.88% 26
UK excluding London +7 14 £80,000 +10.34% 30
Work from Home +70 13 £80,000 +3.23% 17
South East +42 6 - - 5
North West +32 4 £80,000 +4.92% 7
North of England +18 4 £80,000 +10.34% 7
South West +14 4 £92,500 +23.33% 6

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 (11.76%) Confluence
1 4 (11.76%) IIS
1 4 (11.76%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.88%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 19 (55.88%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) OpenShift
3 6 (17.65%) Azure
3 6 (17.65%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (14.71%) Serverless
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (8.82%) SaaS
7 2 (5.88%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) AMQP
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (2.94%) Internet
3 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) GitLab
2 6 (17.65%) JIRA
3 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
4 4 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.88%) Git
5 2 (5.88%) JMeter
5 2 (5.88%) JUnit
5 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (38.24%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (14.71%) Senior
2 4 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Junior
2 4 (11.76%) Linux Specialist
2 4 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Platform Specialist
2 4 (11.76%) Site Engineer
2 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Applications Support
4 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.94%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
2 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (11.76%) Middleware
4 3 (8.82%) Spring
5 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.88%) YAML
6 1 (2.94%) LDAP
6 1 (2.94%) OAuth
6 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.94%) OpenID
6 1 (2.94%) React
6 1 (2.94%) SAML
6 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 3 (8.82%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (8.82%) Unix
5 1 (2.94%) AIX
5 1 (2.94%) Debian
5 1 (2.94%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 15 (44.12%) DevOps
3 9 (26.47%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Configuration Management
3 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (23.53%) Observability
4 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 6 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Low Latency
6 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.76%) Incident Response
7 4 (11.76%) Quantitative Trading
7 4 (11.76%) Server Management
7 4 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) Java
3 10 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 8 (23.53%) SQL
5 7 (20.59%) Bash
6 6 (17.65%) Shell Script
7 3 (8.82%) Go
8 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
8 2 (5.88%) Ruby
8 2 (5.88%) Scala
8 2 (5.88%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (2.94%) C++
9 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) City & Guilds
2 4 (11.76%) NVQ Level 3
3 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) GCED
5 1 (2.94%) GCIA
5 1 (2.94%) GCIH
5 1 (2.94%) GIAC
5 1 (2.94%) GREM
5 1 (2.94%) GSEC
5 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
3 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (76.47%) Ansible
2 14 (41.18%) Puppet
3 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
4 10 (29.41%) Grafana
5 9 (26.47%) Terraform
6 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
7 3 (8.82%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (2.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (2.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (2.94%) Podman
8 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
1 7 (20.59%) VMware
2 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
2 5 (14.71%) Splunk
3 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.76%) Mellanox
3 4 (11.76%) Solarflare
4 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.88%) ForgeRock
5 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Okta
5 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity