Bradford Progress Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Progress products and/or services in IT contracts within the Bradford region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Progress over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bradford Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Croydon East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Herefordshire Leeds London Manchester Midlands North West Renfrew Renfrewshire Scotland Sheffield South East South Yorkshire UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£303
% change on same period last year	+11.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£10.82
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors Bradford
Matching contract IT job ads	30	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	7	8
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£327
Average daily rate	£377	£334
% change on same period last year	+12.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£11.59
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£12.07
% change on same period last year	+190.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£12.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£23.22
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
Progress West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Progress Software Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Progress across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Progress across the Bradford region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Progress also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Progress.

1 1 (100.00 %) Progress 4GL 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Legal 1 1 (100.00 %) Automated Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Requirements Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Progress also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Progress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Applications Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Automated Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) Progress 4GL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (100.00 %) SLA