The first table below looks at the demand for OpenEdge skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenEdge over the 3 months to 24 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 Application Platforms category.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Progress OpenEdge
Rank 512 579 576
Rank change year-on-year
+67 -3
Contract jobs citing OpenEdge 17 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.202% 0.053% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 2
Average daily rate £585 - £301
UK excluding London average daily rate £575 - £288
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8396 9507 10206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.10% 16.30% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4754 5212 5447
Average daily rate £359 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.64% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 431 562
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.85 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.75 £37.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%

OpenEdge
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

OpenEdge Daily Rate Trend

OpenEdge
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenEdge within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

OpenEdge Hourly Rate Trend

OpenEdge
Top 11 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +58 17 £585 -
South East - 9 £585 -
West Sussex - 8 £585 -
Gatwick - 7 £585 -
West Midlands +8 4 £300 -
Birmingham - 3 £300 -
London +39 2 £585 -
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
East Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Hull - 1 £300 -

OpenEdge
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 16 (61.54%) Progress
2 10 (38.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Progress 4GL
2 10 (38.46%) VMware
2 10 (38.46%) VMware ESX
2 10 (38.46%) Clustering
2 10 (38.46%) PHP
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (38.46%) NetApp
2 10 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 10 (38.46%) MySQL
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Apache
2 10 (38.46%) SharePoint
2 10 (38.46%) vSphere
2 10 (38.46%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (30.77%) WebSpeed
4 7 (26.92%) Scrum
4 7 (26.92%) JIRA
4 7 (26.92%) SQL
4 7 (26.92%) PVCS
4 7 (26.92%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 7 (26.92%) Sculptor

OpenEdge
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 (38.46%) Apache
1 10 (38.46%) SharePoint
1 10 (38.46%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (3.846%) SyteLine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
1 10 (38.46%) MySQL
1 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) WebSpeed
2 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 7 (26.92%) PVCS
2 7 (26.92%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Developer
1 15 (57.69%) Progress Developer
2 10 (38.46%) Analyst
2 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
1 10 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
1 10 (38.46%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) Scrum
2 2 (7.692%) Project Management
2 2 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (3.846%) ERP
3 1 (3.846%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Progress 4GL
1 10 (38.46%) PHP
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) VMware ESX
1 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 10 (38.46%) vSphere
2 4 (15.38%) XenApp
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Progress
2 10 (38.46%) VMware
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (38.46%) NetApp
2 10 (38.46%) Red Hat
3 7 (26.92%) Sculptor
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco