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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 679 527 619
Rank change year-on-year -152 +92 -304
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 34 108 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.26% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 2.37% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 29 92 177
10th Percentile £44,600 £61,250 £46,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £66,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £76,250 £96,563 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,938 £138,000 £95,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.60% +2.84% +0.80%

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 4,468 4,562 9,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.43% 11.12% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,150 3,384 7,264
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,247 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.65% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,688 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

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 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 12 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 7 April 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 -138 28 £70,000 -9.68% 51
UK excluding London -108 23 £55,000 -23.60% 55
Work from Home -37 15 £70,000 -2.77% 11
London -49 10 £75,000 -18.92% 7
South West -49 8 £52,500 -43.24% 14
North West -45 5 £67,500 -6.90% 1
North of England -79 5 £67,500 -6.90% 7
South East -39 4 - - 7
Scotland -23 3 £35,000 -41.67% 9
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands -12 1 - - 3
Midlands -39 1 - - 8

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 5 (14.71%) Confluence
1 5 (14.71%) IIS
2 4 (11.76%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.94%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) Drupal
3 1 (2.94%) nginx
3 1 (2.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Serverless
3 7 (20.59%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (20.59%) Amazon S3
4 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (17.65%) CloudFront
4 6 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (14.71%) Azure
5 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
5 5 (14.71%) SaaS
6 4 (11.76%) GitHub
6 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.82%) GCP
8 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) DNS
1 5 (14.71%) Network Security
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) SSL
4 1 (2.94%) DHCP
4 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.94%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (26.47%) Bitbucket
3 5 (14.71%) JIRA
4 4 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (11.76%) Git
4 4 (11.76%) GitLab
5 3 (8.82%) Vagrant
6 1 (2.94%) Gatling
6 1 (2.94%) git-flow
6 1 (2.94%) JMeter
6 1 (2.94%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Electronics
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Junior
4 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Account Manager
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) DBA
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) Middleware
3 2 (5.88%) React
3 2 (5.88%) Spring
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.94%) .NET
4 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.94%) Memcached
4 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (55.88%) Linux
2 11 (32.35%) Windows
3 7 (20.59%) Windows Server
4 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (14.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.94%) CentOS
8 1 (2.94%) Debian
8 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) Configuration Management
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) DevOps
3 15 (44.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (32.35%) Agile
5 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (26.47%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (20.59%) Mentoring
8 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
9 5 (14.71%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (11.76%) Business Development
10 4 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
11 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 3 (8.82%) Observability
11 3 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (8.82%) Software Engineering
11 3 (8.82%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) Bash
3 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
6 1 (2.94%) PHP
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
2 5 (14.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.76%) City & Guilds
3 4 (11.76%) NVQ Level 3
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.76%) iptables
3 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (70.59%) Ansible
2 19 (55.88%) Puppet
2 19 (55.88%) Terraform
3 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
4 9 (26.47%) Grafana
4 9 (26.47%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.76%) ZABBIX
6 3 (8.82%) Packer
7 1 (2.94%) Consul
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.76%) Cribl.io
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.88%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) TOWER Software