OpenEdge Contract Job Trends

Progress OpenEdge
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring OpenEdge skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 504 560
Rank change year-on-year -124 +56 +126
Contract jobs citing OpenEdge 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.017% 0.026%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.12% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile £325 - £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -43.48%
75th Percentile £375 - £338
90th Percentile £450 - £348
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

OpenEdge falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,153 3,254 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 11.14% 9.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,812 2,164 2,898
10th Percentile £313 £281 £258
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £681 £713 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 68 162
10th Percentile £15.61 £16.26 £13.03
25th Percentile £19.03 £22.38 £15.47
Median hourly rate £31.25 £47.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.21% +58.33% -33.33%
75th Percentile £64.00 £64.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.15 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +110.00% -9.09%

OpenEdge
Job Vacancy Trend

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

OpenEdge job vacancy trend in the UK

OpenEdge
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

OpenEdge
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OpenEdge over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for OpenEdge in the UK

OpenEdge
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing OpenEdge

OpenEdge
Top 4 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 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
England -101 5 £350 - 4
UK excluding London -105 4 £350 -12.50% 4
East of England - 4 £350 -
London - 1 £500 -

OpenEdge
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (80.00%) Local Government
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Systems Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
1 4 (80.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Project Delivery
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Civica
2 4 (80.00%) Orchard