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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 683 613 662
Rank change year-on-year -70 +49 -217
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 77 60 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.077% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.39% 1.07% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 43 51 141
10th Percentile £35,000 £62,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £65,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £75,625 £101,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £120,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -26.17% +6.43% -

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 5,553 5,603 8,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.57% 11.38% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4,109 3,339 6,342
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,250 £83,938
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -64 62 £65,000 -13.33% 37
UK excluding London -53 51 £55,000 -26.17% 29
London -53 26 £87,563 -2.71% 12
North of England -24 23 £65,000 -12.75% 14
Work from Home -1 21 £72,500 -3.16% 10
Yorkshire -23 14 £72,500 -3.16% 4
Scotland +30 13 £35,000 -53.02% 2
South West -56 10 £65,000 -31.58% 6
North West -12 8 £65,000 -10.34% 9
West Midlands -17 3 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Midlands -29 3 £65,000 -3.70% 2
Wales - 2 £55,000 - 2
North East - 1 £50,000 - 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 1 (1.30%) Apache
1 1 (1.30%) Confluence
1 1 (1.30%) Drupal
1 1 (1.30%) IIS
1 1 (1.30%) nginx
1 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 50 (64.94%) AWS
2 37 (48.05%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (24.68%) Cloud Computing
3 19 (24.68%) GitHub
3 19 (24.68%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (23.38%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (18.18%) SaaS
6 13 (16.88%) Azure
6 13 (16.88%) Serverless
7 11 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (10.39%) GCP
9 7 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.49%) CloudFront
11 4 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.90%) Cloudflare
12 3 (3.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Network Security
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
3 2 (2.60%) DNS
3 2 (2.60%) SSL
3 2 (2.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.09%) MySQL
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.49%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.30%) Redis
4 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (32.47%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.39%) Git
3 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.19%) GitLab
4 3 (3.90%) Vagrant
5 2 (2.60%) Maven
6 1 (1.30%) Gatling
6 1 (1.30%) git-flow
6 1 (1.30%) JIRA
6 1 (1.30%) JMeter
6 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.90%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Advertising
5 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Front Office
5 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Senior
2 20 (25.97%) Consultant
2 20 (25.97%) Professional Services Consultant
3 19 (24.68%) Platform Engineer
4 13 (16.88%) Migration Consultant
4 13 (16.88%) Senior Consultant
4 13 (16.88%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
5 10 (12.99%) Account Manager
5 10 (12.99%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) DBA
7 7 (9.09%) MySQL DBA
7 7 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Platform Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) Web Services
2 3 (3.90%) Node.js
3 2 (2.60%) AWS CDK
3 2 (2.60%) Kafka
3 2 (2.60%) React
3 2 (2.60%) Spring
3 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.30%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.30%) Memcached
4 1 (1.30%) REST
4 1 (1.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 19 (24.68%) Enterprise Cloud
2 19 (24.68%) Onboarding
3 15 (19.48%) Cloud Native
4 13 (16.88%) Distributed Computing
4 13 (16.88%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (16.88%) Mainframe
5 6 (7.79%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (44.16%) Linux
2 12 (15.58%) Windows
3 9 (11.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (6.49%) Debian
5 5 (6.49%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.75%) Configuration Management
2 35 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 29 (37.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (35.06%) Containerisation
5 25 (32.47%) Mentoring
6 21 (27.27%) Migration
7 19 (24.68%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (24.68%) Project Delivery
8 16 (20.78%) Agile
9 15 (19.48%) DevOps
10 13 (16.88%) Application Discovery
10 13 (16.88%) Cutover Planning
10 13 (16.88%) Database Migration
10 13 (16.88%) Network Load Balancing
10 13 (16.88%) Project Management
11 12 (15.58%) Software Delivery
11 12 (15.58%) Software Engineering
12 9 (11.69%) AI
13 7 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
14 6 (7.79%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 26 (33.77%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) Groovy
3 10 (12.99%) Bash
4 5 (6.49%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.90%) Go
5 3 (3.90%) Java
5 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.30%) PHP
6 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) AWS Certification
3 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 33 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) iptables
3 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (54.55%) Puppet
2 35 (45.45%) Terraform
3 34 (44.16%) Kubernetes
4 28 (36.36%) Ansible
5 8 (10.39%) Grafana
5 8 (10.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.90%) Packer
6 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.60%) Istio
7 2 (2.60%) linkerd
7 2 (2.60%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.30%) Consul
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (9.09%) Oracle
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.19%) Google
4 3 (3.90%) VMware
5 2 (2.60%) Cribl.io
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) Facebook
6 1 (1.30%) Instagram
6 1 (1.30%) Percona
6 1 (1.30%) TOWER Software