OpenEdge ABL Contract Job Trends

Progress OpenEdge Advanced Business Language (OpenEdge ABL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenEdge ABL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 690 - 557
Rank change year-on-year - - +72
Contract jobs citing OpenEdge ABL 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.005%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.007% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

OpenEdge ABL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14,313 10,852 12,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.24% 32.83% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 7,126 8,002
10th Percentile £363 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £647
90th Percentile £725 £733 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 300 330
10th Percentile £22.15 £29.00 £26.22
25th Percentile £45.00 £40.94 £46.05
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.28 £75.13 £77.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% -

OpenEdge ABL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing OpenEdge ABL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

OpenEdge ABL job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenEdge ABL
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenEdge ABL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenEdge ABL

OpenEdge ABL
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenEdge ABL within the UK over the 6 months to 8 October 2026. 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
Work from Home - 1 £1,000 - 4

OpenEdge ABL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenEdge
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle