Hybrid/Remote Progress Contract Job Trends

Progress
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 13 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 313 386
Rank change year-on-year +8 +73 +178
Contract jobs citing Progress 13 3 5
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% 0.025% 0.028%
As % of the Vendors category 0.26% 0.055% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £439 - £189
25th Percentile £459 - £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - £355
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.10%
75th Percentile £575 - £559
90th Percentile £583 - £666
UK median daily rate £460 £457 £425
% change year-on-year +0.55% +7.64% -18.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.14 - -
Median hourly rate £37.28 - -
75th Percentile £38.42 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.28 - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,946 5,452 8,024
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 48.57% 44.94% 45.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,090 3,270 5,106
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% - -3.58%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £723 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 100 188
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.36 £17.10
25th Percentile £19.66 £24.01 £26.19
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.00 £56.68
Median % change year-on-year -26.83% -27.66% -1.43%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.14 £73.13
90th Percentile £67.50 £86.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

Progress
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Progress and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Progress job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Progress
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress

Progress
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Progress daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Progress
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Progress

Progress
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (7.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (7.69%) GCP
1 1 (7.69%) Serverless
1 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
1 2 (15.38%) Wireshark
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (23.08%) Legal
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Project Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Implementation Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Implementation Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Network Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Testing Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) JSON
1 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
1 1 (7.69%) NumPy
1 1 (7.69%) OpenAPI
1 1 (7.69%) Pandas
1 1 (7.69%) pytest
1 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
1 1 (7.69%) Seaborn
1 1 (7.69%) Swagger
1 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Educational Technology
1 3 (23.08%) Learning Management System
1 3 (23.08%) Management Information System
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
1 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) SCORM
3 1 (7.69%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (46.15%) User Experience
2 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (23.08%) Capacity Management
4 3 (23.08%) Contract Negotiation
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Planning and Forecasting
4 3 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Review
5 2 (15.38%) Change Management
5 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 2 (15.38%) Remote Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
2 3 (23.08%) PMP
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GRC
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Cisco
1 2 (15.38%) HP
1 2 (15.38%) Micro Focus
1 2 (15.38%) Remedy
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Zscaler