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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 383 403
Rank change year-on-year -89 +20 -97
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 115 361 541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.63% 0.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.27% 3.91% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 260 424
10th Percentile £390 £445 £450
25th Percentile £475 £509 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -2.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £750
90th Percentile £713 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 5,068 9,241 14,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 16.03% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,643 6,639 10,128
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £562 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% -0.53% +13.00%
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 112 205 183
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.77 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.15% +144.44% -43.75%
75th Percentile £50.06 £70.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £71.25 £82.80 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -32.35% +112.50% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -37 101 £575 -8.73% 92
UK excluding London -5 51 £550 +2.33% 53
London -29 50 £600 -8.40% 44
Work from Home +6 49 £550 -8.33% 53
North of England +5 19 £582 +19.42% 18
Yorkshire +29 14 £622 +34.49% 4
Midlands +27 9 £419 -18.29% 11
South West +7 9 £550 - 7
South East +6 7 £575 -8.00% 7
East Midlands - 7 £359 - 2
North West 0 5 £523 +7.21% 11
Scotland +12 4 £468 -18.13% 2
West Midlands +17 2 £694 +35.37% 9
East of England +10 2 £675 +29.81% 5
Wales +19 1 £690 +18.71% 3

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 (9.57%) Confluence
2 6 (5.22%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.35%) JBoss
4 4 (3.48%) Apache
5 2 (1.74%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.74%) nginx
5 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.87%) IIS
6 1 (0.87%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.87%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.87%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 77 (66.96%) AWS
2 47 (40.87%) Azure
3 28 (24.35%) GCP
4 24 (20.87%) GitHub
5 22 (19.13%) OpenShift
6 18 (15.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (12.17%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (11.30%) Amazon S3
8 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (11.30%) Serverless
9 12 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (7.83%) Kong
11 8 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (6.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (5.22%) Apigee
13 6 (5.22%) Datadog
14 5 (4.35%) Route 53
15 3 (2.61%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.13%) TCP/IP
2 20 (17.39%) HTTP
3 15 (13.04%) SSL
4 14 (12.17%) DNS
5 12 (10.43%) Firewall
6 9 (7.83%) VPN
7 7 (6.09%) AMQP
7 7 (6.09%) Network Security
8 4 (3.48%) DHCP
9 3 (2.61%) BIG-IP
9 3 (2.61%) DSL
9 3 (2.61%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (2.61%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (1.74%) Internet
10 2 (1.74%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.87%) LTE
11 1 (0.87%) SAN
11 1 (0.87%) tcpdump
11 1 (0.87%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.26%) Relational Database
2 17 (14.78%) SQL Server
3 16 (13.91%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (13.04%) MySQL
5 11 (9.57%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (8.70%) RDBMS
7 8 (6.96%) InfluxDB
8 7 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.48%) Redis
11 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.74%) Big Data
12 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.74%) MariaDB
12 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.87%) CouchDB
13 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 72 (62.61%) Jenkins
2 38 (33.04%) Git
3 25 (21.74%) GitLab
4 23 (20.00%) JIRA
5 12 (10.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 12 (10.43%) CircleCI
5 12 (10.43%) Travis CI
6 11 (9.57%) SonarQube
7 10 (8.70%) TeamCity
8 6 (5.22%) AppScan
8 6 (5.22%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (5.22%) Burp Suite
8 6 (5.22%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (4.35%) Artifactory
9 5 (4.35%) CA Release Automation
9 5 (4.35%) Subversion
10 3 (2.61%) Maven
10 3 (2.61%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (1.74%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.87%) Gradle
General
1 39 (33.91%) Social Skills
2 24 (20.87%) Finance
3 14 (12.17%) Public Sector
4 13 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.22%) Banking
6 5 (4.35%) Marketing
7 3 (2.61%) Electronics
7 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Wearables
9 1 (0.87%) French Language
9 1 (0.87%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) German Language
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Military
9 1 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (33.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Linux Engineer
3 13 (11.30%) Site Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Linux Server Engineer
4 11 (9.57%) Server Engineer
5 9 (7.83%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.09%) Senior
7 6 (5.22%) Architect
7 6 (5.22%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.35%) Vulnerability Specialist
9 4 (3.48%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Developer
9 4 (3.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.48%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.48%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.35%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (11.30%) XML
2 13 (11.30%) YAML
3 12 (10.43%) JSON
4 7 (6.09%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (5.22%) Node.js
5 6 (5.22%) REST
6 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.48%) Kafka
7 4 (3.48%) SOAP
8 3 (2.61%) .NET
8 3 (2.61%) ARM Templates
8 3 (2.61%) LDAP
8 3 (2.61%) RESTful
9 2 (1.74%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.74%) React
10 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 1 (0.87%) OAuth
10 1 (0.87%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Public Cloud
2 15 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 11 (9.57%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (7.83%) Data Structures
5 7 (6.09%) Cloud Native
6 6 (5.22%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.48%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.61%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.74%) CBDC
9 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.74%) Genomics
9 2 (1.74%) Life Science
9 2 (1.74%) NHS
10 1 (0.87%) Digital Currency
10 1 (0.87%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.87%) PKI
10 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 56 (48.70%) Linux
2 26 (22.61%) Windows
3 13 (11.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (9.57%) Windows Server
5 10 (8.70%) Unix
6 2 (1.74%) CentOS
6 2 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.87%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (64.35%) DevOps
2 69 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 49 (42.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (40.87%) Configuration Management
5 38 (33.04%) Containerisation
6 37 (32.17%) Continuous Integration
7 32 (27.83%) Agile
8 24 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (18.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (16.52%) Scrum
11 18 (15.65%) Test Automation
12 17 (14.78%) Project Management
13 16 (13.91%) DevSecOps
13 16 (13.91%) Task Automation
14 15 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
15 14 (12.17%) Continuous Deployment
16 12 (10.43%) Open Source
17 11 (9.57%) Microservices
18 10 (8.70%) Kanban
18 10 (8.70%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 75 (65.22%) Python
2 38 (33.04%) Bash
3 37 (32.17%) PowerShell
4 22 (19.13%) Ruby
5 20 (17.39%) Java
6 16 (13.91%) Go
7 11 (9.57%) Perl
7 11 (9.57%) SQL
8 10 (8.70%) C
9 8 (6.96%) C++
10 6 (5.22%) Shell Script
11 5 (4.35%) C#
12 3 (2.61%) ActionScript
12 3 (2.61%) Bicep
13 2 (1.74%) Groovy
13 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
13 2 (1.74%) PHP
13 2 (1.74%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.87%) Rust
14 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (29.57%) Security Cleared
2 19 (16.52%) DV Cleared
3 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.35%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.61%) SANS
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.74%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) CEH
7 1 (0.87%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (0.87%) LPIC
7 1 (0.87%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.65%) QA
2 2 (1.74%) ISO 20022
2 2 (1.74%) NIST
2 2 (1.74%) SLA
3 1 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.87%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 66 (57.39%) Docker
2 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.35%) Firmware
4 4 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.61%) vCloud
5 3 (2.61%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.61%) vSphere
6 1 (0.87%) Ceph
6 1 (0.87%) KVM
6 1 (0.87%) NFS
6 1 (0.87%) Postfix
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.87%) Xen
Systems Management
1 88 (76.52%) Ansible
2 84 (73.04%) Puppet
3 74 (64.35%) Terraform
4 64 (55.65%) Kubernetes
5 37 (32.17%) Prometheus
6 32 (27.83%) Grafana
7 18 (15.65%) Docker Swarm
8 16 (13.91%) Kibana
9 11 (9.57%) logstash
10 9 (7.83%) Nagios
11 8 (6.96%) Graylog
12 6 (5.22%) HP Fortify
12 6 (5.22%) Nessus
12 6 (5.22%) Salt
12 6 (5.22%) WebInspect
13 5 (4.35%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (2.61%) Autotask
14 3 (2.61%) Consul
14 3 (2.61%) Packer
14 3 (2.61%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 29 (25.22%) Splunk
2 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.57%) Red Hat
4 10 (8.70%) VMware
5 6 (5.22%) Checkmarx
5 6 (5.22%) Dell
5 6 (5.22%) Veracode
6 5 (4.35%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.35%) BMC
6 5 (4.35%) Google
6 5 (4.35%) New Relic
6 5 (4.35%) Qualys
6 5 (4.35%) Remedy
6 5 (4.35%) SaltStack
6 5 (4.35%) SAP
7 3 (2.61%) Arista
7 3 (2.61%) F5
7 3 (2.61%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle