Progress Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Progress
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire 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 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Progress 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.43% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 - -
East of England median daily rate £460 - -

All Vendors
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 145 88 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 62.50% 53.66% 58.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 48 85
10th Percentile £209 £351 £335
25th Percentile £411 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £538
90th Percentile £638 £700 £556
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 1
10th Percentile £37.90 £40.75 -
25th Percentile £49.74 £52.35 £51.25
Median hourly rate £75.50 £55.65 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.67% +6.00% +200.00%
75th Percentile £88.00 £66.05 £53.75
90th Percentile £98.80 £80.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £16.23 £41.80
% change year-on-year +27.85% -61.17% +26.67%

Progress
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Progress job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Progress
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progress within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 13 November 2025. 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
Bedford - 1 £220 -
Progress
East of England

Progress
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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