The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Progress products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Progress 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 Vendors for the West Yorkshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Progress Software Corporation.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Progress
Rank 93 - 72
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Progress 2 0 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.146% - 0.917%
As % of the Vendors category 0.312% - 2.361%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
Average daily rate - - £240
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £240
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £187.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £187.50
All Vendors
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
641 791 466
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 46.72% 45.46% 38.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 400 176
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £170 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 42 48
Average hourly rate £15.25 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.66% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.72 £10.51 £9.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £31.75 £31.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Progress
Yorkshire

Progress
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Progress across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Yorkshire Progress Jobs Demand Trend

Progress
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Progress Daily Rate Trend

Progress
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Progress Hourly Rate Trend

Progress
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progress within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds - 1 - - 1
Bradford - - - -
Progress
Yorkshire

Progress
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) VB6
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sculptor
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) PVCS
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) OpenEdge
1 1 (33.33%) Progress 4GL
1 1 (33.33%) WebSpeed

Progress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) PVCS
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (33.33%) WebSpeed
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Progress Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) VB6
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Delphi
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VB
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
1 1 (33.33%) Progress 4GL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Sculptor