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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 568 564
Rank change year-on-year -55 -4 -259
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 34 136 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.26% 0.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 2.34% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 27 90 178
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £42,025
25th Percentile £60,625 £65,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +8.93% -6.67%
75th Percentile £94,375 £95,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £140,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,996 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.44% +9.22% -

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 4,239 5,806 8,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.64% 11.19% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,950 3,528 6,982
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £89,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -3.51%

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 1 February 2026.

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 1 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 -43 33 £75,000 -3.23% 24
Work from Home +28 18 £80,000 +11.13% 24
UK excluding London -38 17 £65,000 -8.44% 21
London 0 16 £82,625 -8.19% 10
South East +31 6 - - 7
North West +5 6 £66,250 -8.62% 3
North of England -33 6 £66,250 -7.97% 3
South West +2 5 £55,000 -38.89% 5

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
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) OpenShift
3 6 (17.65%) Serverless
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.88%) CloudFront
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Network Security
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) AMQP
3 1 (2.94%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) HTTP
3 1 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 2 (5.88%) InfluxDB
3 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.65%) Bitbucket
2 6 (17.65%) GitLab
3 4 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (11.76%) JIRA
4 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.88%) JMeter
4 2 (5.88%) JUnit
4 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.94%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (35.29%) Finance
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Advertising
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 4 (11.76%) Junior
4 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DBA
5 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle DBA
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Unix Administrator
6 1 (2.94%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) Middleware
2 4 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (11.76%) Spring
3 2 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
3 2 (5.88%) React
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.94%) OpenID
4 1 (2.94%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (58.82%) Linux
2 9 (26.47%) Windows
3 6 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (17.65%) Windows Server
3 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.94%) AIX
6 1 (2.94%) Debian
6 1 (2.94%) Solaris
6 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
2 13 (38.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (35.29%) Configuration Management
4 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Automation
5 10 (29.41%) Agile
6 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
8 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (14.71%) Observability
9 4 (11.76%) Business Development
9 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (11.76%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.76%) Microservices
9 4 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
9 4 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) Java
3 7 (20.59%) Bash
3 7 (20.59%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) SQL
5 2 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.88%) Scala
5 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) City & Guilds
1 4 (11.76%) NVQ Level 3
1 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) GCED
4 1 (2.94%) GCIA
4 1 (2.94%) GCIH
4 1 (2.94%) GIAC
4 1 (2.94%) GREM
4 1 (2.94%) GSEC
4 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
3 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
4 2 (5.88%) iptables
Systems Management
1 27 (79.41%) Ansible
2 20 (58.82%) Puppet
3 16 (47.06%) Terraform
4 15 (44.12%) Kubernetes
5 9 (26.47%) Grafana
5 9 (26.47%) Prometheus
6 4 (11.76%) ZABBIX
7 1 (2.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.94%) Packer
7 1 (2.94%) Podman
7 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
3 5 (14.71%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.76%) Atlassian
4 4 (11.76%) Cribl.io
5 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.88%) ForgeRock
7 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.94%) Okta
7 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.94%) SAP
7 1 (2.94%) Splunk