Hybrid/Remote Progress Chef Job Trends

Chef
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Progress Chef skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 416 469
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 -88
Permanent jobs citing Progress Chef 20 12 40
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.088% 0.073% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.04% 0.61% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 16 9 29
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £54,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £74,870 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% -14.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £94,750 £125,000
UK median annual salary £61,250 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -18.33% - +0.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,915 1,961 2,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 11.89% 10.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 1,117 1,961
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,467 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -0.77% +1.56% -4.48%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Progress Chef and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Progress Chef job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Progress Chef
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress Chef.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress Chef

Progress Chef
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Progress Chef salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) Drupal
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
1 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) GitHub
2 12 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
3 10 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (50.00%) Azure
4 8 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 5 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Functions
6 3 (15.00%) Cloudflare
6 3 (15.00%) Google Compute Engine
6 3 (15.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
7 2 (10.00%) CloudFront
7 2 (10.00%) Kong
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) SSL
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (35.00%) Git
3 5 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) Maven
4 2 (10.00%) Vagrant
5 1 (5.00%) Gatling
5 1 (5.00%) git-flow
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA
5 1 (5.00%) JMeter
5 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Advertising
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Senior
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) Platform Manager
7 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) DevOps Consultant
8 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
8 1 (5.00%) Professional Services Consultant
8 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) Node.js
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (5.00%) .NET
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.00%) Memcached
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Debian
3 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.00%) Windows
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 15 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (35.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Network Load Balancing
6 6 (30.00%) Software Delivery
7 5 (25.00%) AI
7 5 (25.00%) Observability
7 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (20.00%) Clean Code
8 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (15.00%) Auto-Scaling
9 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
9 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (15.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Groovy
3 5 (25.00%) Go
4 3 (15.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (5.00%) PHP
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) Terraform
2 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (50.00%) Ansible
4 7 (35.00%) Puppet
5 3 (15.00%) Grafana
5 3 (15.00%) Istio
5 3 (15.00%) linkerd
5 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (10.00%) Packer
7 1 (5.00%) Consul
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Google
2 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) TOWER Software