North West Progress Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Progress products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Bristol Cardiff City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Home Counties Lanarkshire Leeds London Midlands Motherwell Newbury North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Scotland Solihull South East South Wales South West Suffolk Thame UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	137
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.055 %
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	£340	£358
% change on same period last year	-5.06 %
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	£35.33	£25.50
% change on same period last year	+38.56 %
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1675	1824
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.233 %	1.845 %
Daily rates quoted	348	407
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£332
Average daily rate	£359	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	187	166
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.81	£21.17
Average hourly rate	£21.98	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-3.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.15	£24.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
Progress England

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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Progress across the North West region.

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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 North West region.

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) Progress 4GL 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2000 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration 1 2 (66.67 %) Insurance 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Migration 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Cleansing 2 1 (33.33 %) Data Mapping 2 1 (33.33 %) Shell Script 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 1 (33.33 %) Linux

2 1 (33.33 %) Perl

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) XML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2000 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Cleansing
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Migration Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Test Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) Data Mapping
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) Progress 4GL 2 1 (33.33 %) Shell Script 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl