Progress Contract Job Trends in Bedford

Progress
Bedfordshire > Bedford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedford requiring knowledge or experience of Progress products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Progress over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Progress 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedford 4.55% - -
As % of the Vendors category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £220 - -

All Vendors
Bedford

Progress falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Bedford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford 36.36% 55.56% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £95 £238 £200
25th Percentile £175 - £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £325 £388
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.13% +3.33%
75th Percentile £638 £505 £525
90th Percentile - £525 £750
Bedfordshire median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - -
Median hourly rate £40.73 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.75% - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £53.00 - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £75.50 £55.65 £52.50
% change year-on-year +35.67% +6.00% +200.00%

Progress
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Progress relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedford.

Progress job vacancy trend in Bedford

Progress
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) assyst
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP