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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 533 567
Rank change year-on-year -107 +34 -260
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 31 138 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.044% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.71% 2.49% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 24 99 188
10th Percentile £51,625 £56,250 £42,888
25th Percentile £53,438 £65,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,875 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,984 £96,250 £79,688
90th Percentile £106,750 £124,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.60% +15.19% -7.41%

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 4,395 5,545 8,644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.28% 11.73% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3,040 3,500 6,971
10th Percentile £32,475 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,625 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £112,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -2.65%

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 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 10 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 28 February 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 -82 30 £75,000 -3.23% 32
UK excluding London -51 18 £55,000 -23.60% 33
Work from Home +6 14 £74,750 +3.83% 9
London -32 12 £75,000 -18.92% 4
South East -8 6 - - 3
South West -8 6 £53,750 -40.28% 14
North West -25 5 £67,500 -6.90% 6
North of England -41 5 £67,500 -6.90% 7
West Midlands +7 1 - - 4
Midlands -8 1 - - 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 (12.90%) Confluence
1 4 (12.90%) IIS
1 4 (12.90%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) OpenShift
3 6 (19.35%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECR
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (9.68%) CloudFront
5 3 (9.68%) GCP
5 3 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub
6 2 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) Network Security
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
3 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) DHCP
4 1 (3.23%) HTTP
4 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) MySQL
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.81%) Bitbucket
3 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 4 (12.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (12.90%) JIRA
5 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.45%) JMeter
5 2 (6.45%) JUnit
5 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (6.45%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Banking
3 1 (3.23%) Electronics
3 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.23%) Legal
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.23%) Marketing
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 4 (12.90%) Java Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Junior
4 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) DBA
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Security Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) Kafka
2 4 (12.90%) Middleware
2 4 (12.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.45%) React
3 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Linux
2 10 (32.26%) Windows
3 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
3 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (6.45%) Debian
6 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (3.23%) AIX
7 1 (3.23%) CentOS
7 1 (3.23%) Solaris
7 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) CI/CD
2 14 (45.16%) Configuration Management
3 13 (41.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (35.48%) DevOps
5 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (29.03%) Agile
6 9 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (16.13%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (16.13%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
9 4 (12.90%) Business Development
9 4 (12.90%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
10 3 (9.68%) Observability
11 2 (6.45%) Clean Code
11 2 (6.45%) Code Quality
11 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
11 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) Bash
3 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
4 6 (19.35%) Java
5 2 (6.45%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
1 4 (12.90%) City & Guilds
1 4 (12.90%) NVQ Level 3
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) CISSP
4 1 (3.23%) GCED
4 1 (3.23%) GCIA
4 1 (3.23%) GCIH
4 1 (3.23%) GIAC
4 1 (3.23%) GREM
4 1 (3.23%) GSEC
4 1 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Docker
2 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (12.90%) VMware NSX
4 3 (9.68%) iptables
Systems Management
1 24 (77.42%) Ansible
2 18 (58.06%) Puppet
3 16 (51.61%) Terraform
4 14 (45.16%) Kubernetes
5 8 (25.81%) Grafana
5 8 (25.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (12.90%) ZABBIX
7 2 (6.45%) Packer
8 1 (3.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (3.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) VMware
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 6 (19.35%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.90%) Atlassian
3 4 (12.90%) Cribl.io
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.23%) Google
5 1 (3.23%) SAP