The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Progress products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Progress over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Cheshire region.

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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Progress
Rank 122 133 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing Progress 4 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.224% 0.050% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.482% 0.110% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £33,500 £28,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.54% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
830 906 714
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 46.52% 45.25% 42.60%
Number of salaries quoted 644 788 601
Average salary £36,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Progress
North West

Progress
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Progress Jobs Demand Trend

Progress
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Progress across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Progress Salary Trend

Progress
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Progress within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wilmslow - 2 £33,500 -
Warrington - 1 - -
Progress
North West

Progress
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Progress.

1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) XPath
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) Progress 4GL
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (25.00%) French Language

Progress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Progress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MFGPRO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) French Language
1 1 (25.00%) German Language
1 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
1 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) XPath
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (25.00%) Progress 4GL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) QAD
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat