Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 23 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Opscode Chef skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Opscode Chef over the 6 months to 23 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Opscode Chef
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
23 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 242 114 207
Rank change year-on-year -128 +93 -76
Permanent jobs citing Opscode Chef 374 314 81
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.29% 2.91% 1.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 7.45% 15.57% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 284 257 73
10th Percentile £38,750 - £36,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -17.39% -20.69%
75th Percentile £85,313 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +4.00%

Opscode Chef is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,018 2,017 1,107
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.26% 18.66% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,961 1,830 910
10th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +4.35%

Opscode Chef
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Opscode Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Opscode Chef trend for jobs with a WFH option

Opscode Chef
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Opscode Chef.

Opscode Chef salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Opscode Chef
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Opscode Chef over the 6 months to 23 January 2022.

Opscode Chef salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 23 January 2022, Opscode Chef job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Opscode Chef.

1 317 (84.76%) Puppet
2 297 (79.41%) Ansible
3 292 (78.07%) DevOps
4 288 (77.01%) AWS
5 285 (76.20%) Terraform
6 218 (58.29%) Kubernetes
7 202 (54.01%) Python
8 197 (52.67%) Docker
9 193 (51.60%) Azure
10 168 (44.92%) Agile Software Development
11 164 (43.85%) Linux
12 142 (37.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 136 (36.36%) Jenkins
14 128 (34.22%) CI/CD
15 123 (32.89%) Configuration Management
16 121 (32.35%) Scrum
17 116 (31.02%) Bash
18 112 (29.95%) GCP
19 110 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
20 88 (23.53%) Microservices
21 87 (23.26%) Google
21 87 (23.26%) Social Skills
22 80 (21.39%) Git (software)
23 76 (20.32%) Windows
24 73 (19.52%) Migration
24 73 (19.52%) PowerShell
25 72 (19.25%) Deployment Automation
26 69 (18.45%) Serverless
27 68 (18.18%) Microsoft
28 66 (17.65%) Test Automation

Opscode Chef
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (2.94%) Confluence
3 10 (2.67%) IIS
4 9 (2.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 7 (1.87%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.60%) Apache
7 4 (1.07%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
8 3 (0.80%) OpenWhisk
8 3 (0.80%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.27%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 288 (77.01%) AWS
2 193 (51.60%) Azure
3 112 (29.95%) GCP
4 110 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 69 (18.45%) Serverless
6 53 (14.17%) GitHub
7 40 (10.70%) SaaS
8 29 (7.75%) Datadog
8 29 (7.75%) PaaS
9 28 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (6.95%) IaaS
11 23 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (5.61%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (3.74%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (3.74%) OpenShift
15 13 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (3.48%) AWS Direct Connect
15 13 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (3.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.28%) DNS
2 14 (3.74%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.21%) Firewall
4 6 (1.60%) VPN
5 5 (1.34%) Network Security
6 3 (0.80%) VLAN
7 2 (0.53%) SAN
8 1 (0.27%) DDNS
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) IPsec
8 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.27%) OpenVPN
8 1 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (14.97%) MySQL
2 34 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 34 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 30 (8.02%) Relational Database
4 17 (4.55%) Amazon DynamoDB
5 16 (4.28%) Couchbase
6 14 (3.74%) Apache Cassandra
7 12 (3.21%) MongoDB
7 12 (3.21%) Power BI
8 11 (2.94%) Hadoop
8 11 (2.94%) Redis
9 8 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (1.87%) Big Data
10 7 (1.87%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.07%) InfluxDB
12 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.80%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 136 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 80 (21.39%) Git (software)
3 53 (14.17%) GitLab
4 42 (11.23%) JIRA
5 36 (9.63%) Maven
6 28 (7.49%) SonarQube
7 25 (6.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 18 (4.81%) Bitbucket
9 13 (3.48%) Terragrunt
10 9 (2.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (2.41%) GoCD
11 8 (2.14%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.87%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.60%) git-flow
13 6 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (1.60%) Visual Studio Team System
14 4 (1.07%) Artifactory
14 4 (1.07%) Team Foundation Server
15 3 (0.80%) Gerrit
15 3 (0.80%) Subversion
General
1 87 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.51%) Retail
3 53 (14.17%) Finance
4 24 (6.42%) Automotive
4 24 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.60%) Marketing
7 5 (1.34%) Banking
7 5 (1.34%) Manufacturing
8 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (0.80%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.27%) Czech Language
9 1 (0.27%) Electronics
9 1 (0.27%) International Banking
9 1 (0.27%) Legal
9 1 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (38.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 77 (20.59%) AWS Engineer
3 58 (15.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 57 (15.24%) AWS DevOps
5 55 (14.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 46 (12.30%) Consultant
7 44 (11.76%) Architect
8 39 (10.43%) Azure Consultant
9 37 (9.89%) Cloud Architect
10 35 (9.36%) AWS Consultant
11 33 (8.82%) Azure Architect
12 28 (7.49%) AWS Architect
12 28 (7.49%) Cloud Consultant
12 28 (7.49%) DevSecOps Architect
12 28 (7.49%) DevSecOps Consultant
12 28 (7.49%) Security Architect
12 28 (7.49%) Security Consultant
13 27 (7.22%) Lead DevOps
14 26 (6.95%) Platform Engineer
15 18 (4.81%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.37%) RESTful
2 23 (6.15%) Kafka
3 21 (5.61%) REST
4 16 (4.28%) JSON
5 15 (4.01%) LAMP
6 13 (3.48%) Web Services
6 13 (3.48%) YAML
7 12 (3.21%) Spring
8 11 (2.94%) .NET
9 10 (2.67%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.14%) Node.js
12 7 (1.87%) GraphQL
12 7 (1.87%) React
12 7 (1.87%) Redux
13 6 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (1.34%) ARM Templates
14 5 (1.34%) OAuth
14 5 (1.34%) OpenID
14 5 (1.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (12.57%) Public Cloud
2 23 (6.15%) Smart Meter
3 22 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 15 (4.01%) Private Cloud
5 13 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
5 13 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.07%) Clustering
7 4 (1.07%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.80%) Replication
9 2 (0.53%) Blog
9 2 (0.53%) CMDB
9 2 (0.53%) EFT
9 2 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.27%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.27%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.27%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 164 (43.85%) Linux
2 76 (20.32%) Windows
3 47 (12.57%) Unix
4 29 (7.75%) Windows Server
5 13 (3.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (2.41%) CentOS
7 7 (1.87%) Apple iOS
8 6 (1.60%) Debian
9 3 (0.80%) CoreOS
9 3 (0.80%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.80%) zOS
10 2 (0.53%) Solaris
10 2 (0.53%) SUSE
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) HPUX
11 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.27%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (78.07%) DevOps
2 168 (44.92%) Agile Software Development
3 142 (37.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (34.22%) CI/CD
5 123 (32.89%) Configuration Management
6 121 (32.35%) Scrum
7 88 (23.53%) Microservices
8 73 (19.52%) Migration
9 72 (19.25%) Deployment Automation
10 66 (17.65%) Test Automation
11 59 (15.78%) Continuous Integration
12 43 (11.50%) Load Balancing
13 42 (11.23%) Mentoring
14 36 (9.63%) DevSecOps
15 32 (8.56%) Availability Management
15 32 (8.56%) Presales
16 31 (8.29%) Software Engineering
17 30 (8.02%) Cybersecurity
17 30 (8.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 28 (7.49%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 202 (54.01%) Python
2 116 (31.02%) Bash
3 73 (19.52%) PowerShell
4 63 (16.84%) SQL
5 52 (13.90%) Java
6 41 (10.96%) JavaScript
7 39 (10.43%) C#
8 29 (7.75%) C
8 29 (7.75%) Perl
9 28 (7.49%) PHP
10 27 (7.22%) Ruby
10 27 (7.22%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.94%) Go
12 8 (2.14%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.87%) Groovy
13 7 (1.87%) Scala
14 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
15 4 (1.07%) C++
16 3 (0.80%) R
17 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (11.23%) AWS Certification
2 37 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 28 (7.49%) CESG Certified Professional
3 28 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (5.61%) Degree
5 13 (3.48%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.80%) MCSE
7 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.53%) MCSA
8 2 (0.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
9 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.27%) Linux+ Certification
9 1 (0.27%) LPIC
9 1 (0.27%) OCP
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.27%) RHCE
9 1 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.49%) IASME
1 28 (7.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 28 (7.49%) NIST
2 12 (3.21%) QA
3 7 (1.87%) SLA
4 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.27%) GDPR
4 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.27%) NCSC
4 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 197 (52.67%) Docker
2 21 (5.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.67%) vSphere
4 7 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.60%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.80%) Ceph
6 3 (0.80%) NFS
7 2 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.27%) NDS
8 1 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 317 (84.76%) Puppet
2 297 (79.41%) Ansible
3 285 (76.20%) Terraform
4 218 (58.29%) Kubernetes
5 30 (8.02%) Docker Swarm
6 29 (7.75%) Grafana
7 28 (7.49%) CASB
8 27 (7.22%) Prometheus
9 14 (3.74%) Nagios
9 14 (3.74%) Salt
10 12 (3.21%) Kibana
11 9 (2.41%) ZABBIX
12 7 (1.87%) Istio
13 6 (1.60%) Graphite
14 5 (1.34%) Rancher
15 3 (0.80%) Hadoop YARN
15 3 (0.80%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.80%) Mesos
15 3 (0.80%) Packer
15 3 (0.80%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 87 (23.26%) Google
2 68 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 42 (11.23%) VMware
4 23 (6.15%) Red Hat
4 23 (6.15%) Splunk
5 18 (4.81%) Oracle
6 17 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 16 (4.28%) SaltStack
8 13 (3.48%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.41%) AppDynamics
9 9 (2.41%) PagerDuty
10 8 (2.14%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (1.07%) SAP
12 3 (0.80%) Databricks
12 3 (0.80%) Salesforce.com
12 3 (0.80%) Veracode
13 2 (0.53%) Adobe
13 2 (0.53%) F5
13 2 (0.53%) hybris
13 2 (0.53%) Rackspace