Progress Chef Contracts with Work from Home Options

Chef
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 301 360
Rank change year-on-year -1 +59 -96
Contract jobs citing Progress Chef 47 162 283
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.67% 0.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.85% 4.15% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 116 228
10th Percentile £356 £486 £436
25th Percentile £449 £560 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £606 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.34% -3.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £800
90th Percentile £640 £738 £813
UK median daily rate £571 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -4.79% -1.03% +15.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £53.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,648 3,906 7,095
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.25% 16.11% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 2,893 5,298
10th Percentile £360 £400 £400
25th Percentile £448 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £564
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -1.15% +7.43%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 78 45
10th Percentile - £25.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.01 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.50 £65.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.38% +85.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £85.75 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

Progress Chef
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Progress Chef trend for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Progress Chef.

Progress Chef daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Progress Chef over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Progress Chef daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Progress Chef.

Progress Chef hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Progress Chef
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (10.64%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) JBoss
2 3 (6.38%) OpenStack
3 2 (4.26%) Apache
3 2 (4.26%) nginx
4 1 (2.13%) IIS
4 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) AWS
2 13 (27.66%) Azure
3 8 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (17.02%) GCP
3 8 (17.02%) OpenShift
4 6 (12.77%) GitHub
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.64%) Route 53
5 5 (10.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (8.51%) Datadog
6 4 (8.51%) Serverless
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.38%) Kong
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (4.26%) Apigee
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 5 (10.64%) DNS
3 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.38%) HTTP
4 3 (6.38%) VPN
5 2 (4.26%) SSL
6 1 (2.13%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.13%) DHCP
6 1 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (2.13%) tcpdump
6 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.02%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (12.77%) Relational Database
3 5 (10.64%) MySQL
3 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.13%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (53.19%) Jenkins
2 19 (40.43%) Git
3 14 (29.79%) JIRA
4 10 (21.28%) GitLab
5 4 (8.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (8.51%) CircleCI
5 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
5 4 (8.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (8.51%) Travis CI
6 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (6.38%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
7 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.26%) Maven
8 1 (2.13%) AppScan
8 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
8 1 (2.13%) Darcs
8 1 (2.13%) Hudson
8 1 (2.13%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) French Language
7 1 (2.13%) Games
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Military
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (44.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (10.64%) Vulnerability Specialist
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) Unix Specialist
4 3 (6.38%) Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Senior
4 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (4.26%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (19.15%) YAML
3 6 (12.77%) JSON
3 6 (12.77%) XML
4 4 (8.51%) Node.js
4 4 (8.51%) REST
5 3 (6.38%) RESTful
5 3 (6.38%) SOAP
5 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.26%) React
7 1 (2.13%) .NET
7 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.13%) CSS
7 1 (2.13%) HTML
7 1 (2.13%) Kafka
7 1 (2.13%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (2.13%) LDAP
7 1 (2.13%) LEMP Stack
7 1 (2.13%) OAuth
7 1 (2.13%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.38%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) CBDC
3 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.13%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (44.68%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Windows
3 11 (23.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.64%) Unix
5 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.13%) CentOS
6 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (68.09%) DevOps
2 23 (48.94%) Configuration Management
3 19 (40.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
4 16 (34.04%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (27.66%) Agile
6 11 (23.40%) Containerisation
7 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.02%) Test Automation
9 7 (14.89%) Scrum
10 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (12.77%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (12.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (12.77%) Security Patching
11 5 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (10.64%) High Availability
11 5 (10.64%) ITSM
11 5 (10.64%) Open Source
11 5 (10.64%) Software Delivery
12 4 (8.51%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) Bash
3 16 (34.04%) PowerShell
4 10 (21.28%) Ruby
5 7 (14.89%) C++
5 7 (14.89%) Java
5 7 (14.89%) Perl
6 4 (8.51%) C
6 4 (8.51%) Go
7 1 (2.13%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.13%) Bicep
7 1 (2.13%) C#
7 1 (2.13%) Groovy
7 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.13%) PHP
7 1 (2.13%) Rust
7 1 (2.13%) SQL
7 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.13%) CEH
4 1 (2.13%) CISSP
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (46.81%) Docker
2 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (6.38%) Firmware
5 3 (6.38%) vCloud
5 3 (6.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (6.38%) vSphere
6 1 (2.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 39 (82.98%) Ansible
2 36 (76.60%) Puppet
3 33 (70.21%) Terraform
4 22 (46.81%) Kubernetes
5 12 (25.53%) Prometheus
6 8 (17.02%) Grafana
6 8 (17.02%) Kibana
7 6 (12.77%) Salt
8 5 (10.64%) logstash
9 4 (8.51%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (6.38%) Autotask
10 3 (6.38%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (6.38%) Nagios
11 1 (2.13%) Consul
11 1 (2.13%) HP Fortify
11 1 (2.13%) Nessus
11 1 (2.13%) Packer
11 1 (2.13%) Rundeck
11 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (2.13%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 12 (25.53%) Splunk
2 11 (23.40%) Red Hat
3 8 (17.02%) VMware
4 6 (12.77%) SaltStack
5 5 (10.64%) Qualys
6 4 (8.51%) BMC
6 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
6 4 (8.51%) Remedy
7 3 (6.38%) AppDynamics
7 3 (6.38%) Arista
7 3 (6.38%) Dell
7 3 (6.38%) Google
7 3 (6.38%) New Relic
7 3 (6.38%) TOWER Software
8 2 (4.26%) Oracle
9 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
9 1 (2.13%) F5
9 1 (2.13%) ForgeRock
9 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 1 (2.13%) Veracode