The first table below looks at the demand for OpenEdge skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenEdge over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Application Platforms category for the England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Progress OpenEdge
Rank 515 538 565
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +27
Contract jobs citing OpenEdge 17 7 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.039% 0.013% 0.026%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.222% 0.080% 0.161%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 5
Average daily rate £585 £208 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+181.92% -27.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £575 - £235
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £187.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £187.50
All Application Platforms
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
7673 8733 9319
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.73% 16.49% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4397 5056 5138
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 408 423 529
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £37.50 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
OpenEdge
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OpenEdge
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OpenEdge across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

England OpenEdge Jobs Demand Trend

OpenEdge
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenEdge across the England region.

England OpenEdge Daily Rate Trend

OpenEdge
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenEdge across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England OpenEdge Daily Rate Histogram

OpenEdge
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenEdge across the England region.

England OpenEdge Hourly Rate Trend

OpenEdge
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenEdge within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East - 9 £585 -
West Midlands +6 4 £300 - 1
London +26 2 £585 +181.92%
Yorkshire - 2 £300 - 1
East Midlands - - - - 2
North West - - - - 1
East of England - - - -
OpenEdge
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OpenEdge
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OpenEdge 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 OpenEdge.

1 15 (60.00%) Progress
2 10 (40.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 10 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (40.00%) VMware
2 10 (40.00%) VMware ESX
2 10 (40.00%) Clustering
2 10 (40.00%) PHP
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (40.00%) NetApp
2 10 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 10 (40.00%) MySQL
2 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Linux
2 10 (40.00%) Apache
2 10 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (40.00%) vSphere
2 10 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 9 (36.00%) Progress 4GL
4 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (28.00%) WebSpeed
6 6 (24.00%) Scrum
6 6 (24.00%) JIRA
6 6 (24.00%) SQL
6 6 (24.00%) PVCS
6 6 (24.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 6 (24.00%) Sculptor

OpenEdge
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OpenEdge 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 OpenEdge. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 10 (40.00%) Apache
1 10 (40.00%) SharePoint
1 10 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (4.000%) SyteLine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 10 (40.00%) MySQL
1 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) WebSpeed
2 6 (24.00%) JIRA
2 6 (24.00%) PVCS
2 6 (24.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Developer
1 14 (56.00%) Progress Developer
2 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 10 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Scrum
2 2 (8.000%) Project Management
2 2 (8.000%) ITIL
3 1 (4.000%) ERP
3 1 (4.000%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) PHP
2 9 (36.00%) Progress 4GL
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) VMware ESX
1 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (40.00%) vSphere
2 4 (16.00%) XenApp
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Progress
2 10 (40.00%) VMware
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (40.00%) NetApp
2 10 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (24.00%) Sculptor
4 4 (16.00%) Cisco
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