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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 614 579 532
Rank change year-on-year -35 -47 -226
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 31 135 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.75% 2.29% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24 85 156
10th Percentile £54,125 £53,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,750 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £109,375 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £139,250 £121,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -7.69%

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 4,108 5,895 7,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.88% 10.97% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,924 3,599 6,089
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,140 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% +6.63% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £103,750 £107,684 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% +9.09% -4.35%

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -37 31 £88,750 +16.39% 43
UK excluding London +10 16 £80,000 +14.29% 40
London -2 15 £95,000 +5.56% 9
Work from Home +49 12 £80,000 +3.23% 52
South East +28 6 - - 13
South West +3 6 £92,500 +23.33% 7
North West +6 4 £72,500 -1.36% 3
North of England -14 4 £72,500 - 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 (12.90%) Confluence
1 4 (12.90%) IIS
1 4 (12.90%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) OpenShift
3 7 (22.58%) Azure
4 6 (19.35%) Amazon S3
4 6 (19.35%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (19.35%) Serverless
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (16.13%) GitHub
6 4 (12.90%) GCP
6 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.23%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) DNS
2 3 (9.68%) AMQP
3 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.23%) DHCP
4 1 (3.23%) Firewall
4 1 (3.23%) HTTP
4 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (16.13%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) InfluxDB
2 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.23%) MySQL
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Jenkins
2 6 (19.35%) GitLab
3 5 (16.13%) Bitbucket
3 5 (16.13%) JIRA
4 4 (12.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.45%) JMeter
5 2 (6.45%) JUnit
5 2 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Advertising
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (12.90%) Junior
1 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (12.90%) Senior
2 3 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Site Engineer
2 3 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) IT Manager
3 2 (6.45%) Java Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (6.45%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Administrator
4 1 (3.23%) DBA
4 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) Kafka
2 6 (19.35%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (12.90%) Middleware
4 3 (9.68%) Spring
5 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.23%) OAuth
6 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.23%) OpenID
6 1 (3.23%) React
6 1 (3.23%) SAML
6 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Driving Licence
2 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (58.06%) Linux
2 7 (22.58%) Windows
3 6 (19.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (16.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.23%) AIX
6 1 (3.23%) Debian
6 1 (3.23%) Solaris
6 1 (3.23%) Unix
6 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 14 (45.16%) DevOps
3 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (29.03%) Agile
4 9 (29.03%) Configuration Management
5 8 (25.81%) Containerisation
6 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (22.58%) Observability
7 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Business Development
8 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
8 4 (12.90%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (12.90%) Microservices
8 4 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
9 3 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (9.68%) Low Latency
9 3 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
4 6 (19.35%) Bash
5 5 (16.13%) SQL
6 4 (12.90%) Go
6 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
7 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.45%) Scala
8 1 (3.23%) C++
8 1 (3.23%) Ruby
8 1 (3.23%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) City & Guilds
1 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
1 4 (12.90%) NVQ Level 3
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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 4 (12.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
3 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (45.16%) Docker
2 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (80.65%) Ansible
2 14 (45.16%) Puppet
3 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
4 11 (35.48%) Terraform
5 7 (22.58%) Grafana
6 6 (19.35%) Prometheus
7 3 (9.68%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (3.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (3.23%) Podman
8 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) VMware
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.90%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.45%) ForgeRock
4 2 (6.45%) Mellanox
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.45%) Solarflare
4 2 (6.45%) Splunk
5 1 (3.23%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.23%) Okta
5 1 (3.23%) Ping Identity
5 1 (3.23%) SAP