Progress Chef Contracts

Chef
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Progress Chef skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Progress Chef over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 372 425
Rank change year-on-year -70 +53 -123
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 133 348 509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.62% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.55% 3.94% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 248 399
10th Percentile £400 £484 £450
25th Percentile £463 £520 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.79% -2.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £750
90th Percentile £697 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,219 8,830 13,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 15.75% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 6,309 9,985
10th Percentile £275 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 202 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.72 £13.42
25th Percentile £20.38 £25.71 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%
75th Percentile £51.44 £73.74 £43.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.68 £58.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%

Progress Chef
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Progress Chef as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef.

Daily rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Progress Chef.

Hourly rate trend for Progress Chef in the UK

Progress Chef
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progress Chef within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -37 122 £557 -13.64% 100
UK excluding London -1 70 £550 - 66
London -19 49 £588 -10.31% 39
Work from Home +1 47 £538 -11.34% 36
Midlands +42 27 £470 -25.54% 10
North of England +18 21 £565 +8.92% 17
South West +14 19 £560 +1.82% 9
South East +6 16 £582 -6.88% 10
Yorkshire +28 14 £622 +5.87% 3
East Midlands - 14 £445 - 2
West Midlands +19 13 £584 -7.56% 8
North West +6 7 £445 -14.22% 11
Scotland +8 2 £468 -18.13% 6
East of England 0 2 £675 +29.81% 7
Wales +17 1 £690 +18.71% 6

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.27%) Confluence
2 6 (4.51%) OpenStack
3 5 (3.76%) JBoss
4 4 (3.01%) Apache
5 3 (2.26%) nginx
6 2 (1.50%) IIS
6 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.89%) AWS
2 43 (32.33%) Azure
3 26 (19.55%) GCP
4 24 (18.05%) GitHub
5 23 (17.29%) OpenShift
6 19 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (9.77%) Amazon S3
8 12 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (9.02%) Serverless
9 11 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (6.77%) Kong
11 8 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.51%) Apigee
12 6 (4.51%) Datadog
13 5 (3.76%) Route 53
13 5 (3.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
15 2 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.54%) TCP/IP
2 20 (15.04%) HTTP
3 15 (11.28%) SSL
4 14 (10.53%) Firewall
5 13 (9.77%) DNS
6 9 (6.77%) VPN
7 8 (6.02%) AMQP
8 7 (5.26%) Network Security
9 3 (2.26%) BIG-IP
9 3 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (2.26%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.50%) DHCP
11 1 (0.75%) DSL
11 1 (0.75%) Internet
11 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.75%) LTE
11 1 (0.75%) SAN
11 1 (0.75%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.75%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (17.29%) Relational Database
2 18 (13.53%) SQL Server
3 16 (12.03%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (11.28%) MySQL
5 11 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (8.27%) RDBMS
6 9 (6.77%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.77%) InfluxDB
7 7 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.50%) Redis
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.75%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 80 (60.15%) Jenkins
2 61 (45.86%) Git
3 31 (23.31%) JIRA
4 27 (20.30%) GitLab
5 12 (9.02%) CircleCI
6 11 (8.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (8.27%) SonarQube
6 11 (8.27%) Travis CI
7 9 (6.77%) TeamCity
8 6 (4.51%) AppScan
8 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (4.51%) Burp Suite
8 6 (4.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.76%) Artifactory
9 5 (3.76%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (3.76%) Subversion
10 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.50%) Maven
10 2 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.75%) NUnit
General
1 33 (24.81%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.79%) Finance
3 13 (9.77%) Banking
4 11 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.76%) Marketing
6 3 (2.26%) Electronics
6 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.50%) Wearables
8 1 (0.75%) French Language
8 1 (0.75%) Games
8 1 (0.75%) German Language
8 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.75%) Military
8 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (30.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (13.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 14 (10.53%) Site Engineer
4 13 (9.77%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Architect
6 11 (8.27%) Linux Server Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Server Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior
10 5 (3.76%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Vulnerability Specialist
11 4 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Developer
11 4 (3.01%) DevOps Specialist
11 4 (3.01%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (21.80%) Elastic Stack
2 27 (20.30%) YAML
3 13 (9.77%) XML
4 12 (9.02%) JSON
5 8 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (4.51%) Node.js
6 6 (4.51%) REST
7 5 (3.76%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.01%) SOAP
9 3 (2.26%) .NET
9 3 (2.26%) Kafka
9 3 (2.26%) LDAP
9 3 (2.26%) RESTful
10 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.50%) React
11 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.75%) LAPP Stack
11 1 (0.75%) LEMP Stack
11 1 (0.75%) React Native
11 1 (0.75%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Public Cloud
2 16 (12.03%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.27%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.77%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.26%) Credit Risk
6 6 (4.51%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.50%) CBDC
9 2 (1.50%) Genomics
9 2 (1.50%) Life Science
9 2 (1.50%) NHS
10 1 (0.75%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.75%) PKI
10 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (53.38%) Linux
2 38 (28.57%) Windows
3 28 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (7.52%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.02%) Unix
6 2 (1.50%) CentOS
6 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.75%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (62.41%) DevOps
2 65 (48.87%) CI/CD
3 61 (45.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (45.11%) Configuration Management
5 38 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 37 (27.82%) Containerisation
7 32 (24.06%) Agile
8 22 (16.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 20 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (13.53%) Scrum
12 17 (12.78%) Project Management
12 17 (12.78%) Test Automation
13 15 (11.28%) Collaborative Working
13 15 (11.28%) Continuous Deployment
13 15 (11.28%) DevSecOps
13 15 (11.28%) Task Automation
13 15 (11.28%) Validation
14 14 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
15 12 (9.02%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 70 (52.63%) Python
2 49 (36.84%) PowerShell
3 38 (28.57%) Bash
4 18 (13.53%) Java
5 17 (12.78%) Ruby
6 13 (9.77%) Go
7 10 (7.52%) C
7 10 (7.52%) Perl
7 10 (7.52%) SQL
8 8 (6.02%) C++
8 8 (6.02%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.01%) C#
10 3 (2.26%) ActionScript
10 3 (2.26%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) Groovy
11 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) Rust
11 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (36.09%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.04%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.26%) SANS
6 2 (1.50%) CISSP
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) CEH
7 1 (0.75%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) LPIC
7 1 (0.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.78%) QA
2 2 (1.50%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.50%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (49.62%) Docker
2 19 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.03%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (8.27%) Active Directory
5 5 (3.76%) Firmware
6 3 (2.26%) vCloud
6 3 (2.26%) VMware NSX
6 3 (2.26%) vSphere
7 1 (0.75%) Ceph
7 1 (0.75%) KVM
7 1 (0.75%) NFS
7 1 (0.75%) Postfix
7 1 (0.75%) Xen
Systems Management
1 98 (73.68%) Ansible
2 95 (71.43%) Puppet
3 85 (63.91%) Terraform
4 63 (47.37%) Kubernetes
5 38 (28.57%) Prometheus
6 32 (24.06%) Grafana
7 21 (15.79%) Salt
8 19 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
9 16 (12.03%) Kibana
10 11 (8.27%) logstash
11 9 (6.77%) Nagios
12 8 (6.02%) Graylog
13 6 (4.51%) HP Fortify
13 6 (4.51%) Nessus
13 6 (4.51%) WebInspect
14 5 (3.76%) Dell DRAC
15 3 (2.26%) Autotask
16 2 (1.50%) Rancher
17 1 (0.75%) Consul
17 1 (0.75%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Splunk
2 26 (19.55%) Red Hat
3 25 (18.80%) VMware
4 18 (13.53%) SaltStack
5 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.51%) Checkmarx
6 6 (4.51%) Dell
6 6 (4.51%) Veracode
7 5 (3.76%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.76%) BMC
7 5 (3.76%) Google
7 5 (3.76%) Qualys
7 5 (3.76%) Remedy
8 4 (3.01%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.01%) New Relic
8 4 (3.01%) SAP
9 3 (2.26%) Arista
9 3 (2.26%) F5
9 3 (2.26%) TOWER Software
10 2 (1.50%) Guidewire