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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 525 654
Rank change year-on-year -150 +129 -338
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 39 111 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.045% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.87% 2.32% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 33 93 169
10th Percentile £35,000 £61,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +13.35% -5.90%
75th Percentile £77,125 £96,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,938 £136,000 £95,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £71,996 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.61% +2.85% -

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 4,508 4,776 9,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.20% 11.48% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,130 3,350 7,353
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,250
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 18 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 18 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 -145 30 £72,375 -9.53% 32
UK excluding London -90 27 £55,000 -23.61% 30
Work from Home -21 17 £70,000 -2.77% 14
London -46 11 £75,000 -16.67% 9
South West -49 8 £52,500 -43.24% 6
Scotland -19 6 £35,000 -41.67% 8
North West -38 5 £67,500 -6.90% 5
North of England -78 5 £67,500 -6.90% 9
South East -39 4 - - 3
West Midlands -23 2 - - 5
Midlands -35 2 - - 5
Wales - 2 £55,000 -

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 (12.82%) Confluence
1 5 (12.82%) IIS
2 4 (10.26%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Drupal
3 1 (2.56%) nginx
3 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Serverless
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (17.95%) Amazon S3
3 7 (17.95%) SaaS
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (15.38%) CloudFront
4 6 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (12.82%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (12.82%) GCP
5 5 (12.82%) OpenShift
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub
6 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.13%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Network Security
2 5 (12.82%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) Firewall
4 2 (5.13%) SSL
5 1 (2.56%) DHCP
5 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (17.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.13%) MySQL
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.56%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (2.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (23.08%) Bitbucket
3 5 (12.82%) Git
3 5 (12.82%) JIRA
4 4 (10.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (10.26%) GitLab
5 3 (7.69%) Vagrant
6 2 (5.13%) Maven
7 1 (2.56%) Gatling
7 1 (2.56%) git-flow
7 1 (2.56%) JMeter
7 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Advertising
6 1 (2.56%) Electronics
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Senior
4 5 (12.82%) Account Manager
5 4 (10.26%) Junior
5 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Kafka
2 4 (10.26%) Middleware
3 2 (5.13%) React
3 2 (5.13%) Spring
3 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.56%) .NET
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.56%) Memcached
4 1 (2.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (56.41%) Linux
2 11 (28.21%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Windows Server
4 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.69%) Debian
6 3 (7.69%) Ubuntu
7 2 (5.13%) CentOS
7 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Configuration Management
2 18 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 16 (41.03%) DevOps
3 16 (41.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (28.21%) Agile
5 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
7 7 (17.95%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (10.26%) Business Development
9 4 (10.26%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.26%) Performance Monitoring
10 3 (7.69%) High Availability
10 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (7.69%) Software Engineering
10 3 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) Python
2 11 (28.21%) Bash
3 8 (20.51%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.26%) Java
5 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) Groovy
6 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) AWS Certification
2 5 (12.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.26%) City & Guilds
3 4 (10.26%) NVQ Level 3
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (41.03%) Docker
2 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.26%) iptables
3 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (69.23%) Ansible
2 21 (53.85%) Puppet
2 21 (53.85%) Terraform
3 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
4 9 (23.08%) Grafana
4 9 (23.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (10.26%) ZABBIX
6 3 (7.69%) Packer
7 1 (2.56%) Consul
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Red Hat
1 8 (20.51%) VMware
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Atlassian
3 4 (10.26%) Cribl.io
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.13%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.56%) TOWER Software