The first table below looks at the demand for Progress 4GL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Progress 4GL over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Cheshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Progress 4GL
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Progress 4GL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Programming Languages category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 -
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £39.00
All Programming Languages
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
207 252 317
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 28.67% 31.19% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 136 178
Average daily rate £350 £313 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 9
Average hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% +57.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £13.50 £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £36.00 £30.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Progress 4GL
North West

Progress 4GL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Progress 4GL across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Cheshire Progress 4GL Jobs Demand Trend

Progress 4GL
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Progress 4GL 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 4GL.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) PVCS
1 2 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (100.00%) OpenEdge
1 2 (100.00%) Progress
1 2 (100.00%) WebSpeed
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Sculptor

Progress 4GL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Progress 4GL 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 4GL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) OpenEdge
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) PVCS
1 2 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (100.00%) WebSpeed
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Progress
1 2 (100.00%) Sculptor