Progress Contract Job Trends in the South East

Progress
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 December 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
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 - 200
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing Progress 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% - 0.020%
As % of the Vendors category 0.090% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.60%
England median daily rate £460 £465 £425
% change year-on-year -1.06% +9.40% -24.44%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,229 1,807 2,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.57% 50.28% 52.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,591 1,194 1,640
10th Percentile £230 £240 £205
25th Percentile £405 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £679 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 49 121
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.36 £24.18 £24.34
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% -24.65% +111.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £71.97 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £46.12
% change year-on-year -20.83% -34.95% +69.24%

Progress
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Progress job vacancy trend in the South East

Progress
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Progress
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Progress
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progress within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Berkshire - 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £220 -
Thames Valley - 1 - - 1
Progress
England

Progress
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (50.00%) assyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle