Progress Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Progress
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 20 October 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
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 93 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Progress 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.072% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 0.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £456 - -
25th Percentile £458 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £464 - -
England median daily rate £460 £465 £563
% change year-on-year -1.06% -17.34% +8.43%

All Vendors
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 672 611 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 48.38% 43.71% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 262 436
10th Percentile £200 £240 £189
25th Percentile £400 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £608
90th Percentile £675 £650 £731
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 139 96
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.62 £15.46
Median hourly rate £21.92 £16.23 £43.15
Median % change year-on-year +35.06% -62.39% +100.70%
75th Percentile £55.63 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.57% -20.27% +77.09%

Progress
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Progress job vacancy trend in the East of England

Progress
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Progress.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Progress

Progress
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Progress.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Progress

Progress
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progress within the East of England region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Essex - 3 £460 -
Suffolk - 1 - - 1
Progress
England

Progress
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Planning and Forecasting
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 3 (75.00%) Sprint Review
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Qualys
1 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
1 1 (25.00%) Tenable