Progressive Enhancement Contracts

Progressive Enhancement
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Progressive Enhancement skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Progressive Enhancement over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 - 650
Rank change year-on-year - - +178
Contract jobs citing Progressive Enhancement 15 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% - 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £538 - £513
90th Percentile £549 - £520
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Progressive Enhancement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,873 33,197 46,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.51% 85.47% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,595 21,230 31,887
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £403 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,718 1,827 1,499
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.35 £18.60
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -0.72% +57.74%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.92 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

Progressive Enhancement
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Progressive Enhancement as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Progressive Enhancement in the UK

Progressive Enhancement
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Progressive Enhancement.

Daily rate trend for Progressive Enhancement in the UK

Progressive Enhancement
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Progressive Enhancement.

Hourly rate trend for Progressive Enhancement in the UK

Progressive Enhancement
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Progressive Enhancement within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 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
England - 8 £520 - 5
UK excluding London - 7 £520 - 4
West Midlands - 6 £520 - 3
Midlands - 6 £520 - 3
Work from Home - 5 £519 - 3
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1

Progressive Enhancement
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
2 8 (53.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2 8 (53.33%) CloudFront
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (26.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (26.67%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 3 (20.00%) React Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Node.js Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Digital Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
6 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (93.33%) React
2 9 (60.00%) Node.js
2 9 (60.00%) Sass
3 8 (53.33%) Express.js
3 8 (53.33%) hapi
3 8 (53.33%) Nunjucks
3 8 (53.33%) Svelte
4 6 (40.00%) Material-UI
4 6 (40.00%) Playwright
5 4 (26.67%) Serverless Framework
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
7 1 (6.67%) CSS
7 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
7 1 (6.67%) Jest
7 1 (6.67%) Next.js
7 1 (6.67%) OAuth
7 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
7 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Front End Development
2 7 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (46.67%) User Experience
3 6 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (40.00%) UX Design
4 1 (6.67%) Agile
4 1 (6.67%) API Integration
4 1 (6.67%) BDD
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Component Testing
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (6.67%) Microservices
4 1 (6.67%) Operational Stability
4 1 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (6.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (6.67%) TDD
4 1 (6.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (6.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform