OpenEdge Contracts

Progress OpenEdge
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OpenEdge skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OpenEdge over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 710 793
Rank change year-on-year +123 +83 -107
Contract jobs citing OpenEdge 11 2 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.003% 0.068%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.26% 0.031% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £275 £515 -
25th Percentile £284 £538 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £575 £325
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +76.92% -33.33%
75th Percentile £338 £613 £338
90th Percentile £348 £635 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

OpenEdge is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,173 6,521 11,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.59% 10.96% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 4,577 7,595
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% -1.16% +8.84%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 147 210
10th Percentile £13.05 £15.50 £13.99
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £27.52 £45.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.86% +104.55% +0.53%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.60 £78.48 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.48 £18.50
% change year-on-year -10.31% +43.14% -2.63%

OpenEdge
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OpenEdge as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OpenEdge in the UK

OpenEdge
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OpenEdge.

Daily rate trend for OpenEdge in the UK

OpenEdge
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OpenEdge.

Hourly rate trend for OpenEdge in the UK

OpenEdge
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenEdge within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 11 £325 - 5
UK excluding London - 10 £325 - 3
Midlands - 7 £325 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £325 - 1
Work from Home +127 4 £300 -47.83% 5
East of England - 3 £300 -

OpenEdge
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) MFGPRO
1 1 (9.09%) Sage 50
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
1 6 (54.55%) OpenEdge Developer
1 6 (54.55%) Progress Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Analyst Programmer
2 3 (27.27%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
1 1 (9.09%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) HPUX
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) SDLC
2 1 (9.09%) BCP
2 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
2 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
2 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (9.09%) ERP
2 1 (9.09%) Systems Analysis
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) HP
1 1 (9.09%) Progress
1 1 (9.09%) QAD
1 1 (9.09%) Red Hat